To achieve this, UN-HABITAT will build on existing knowledge and lessons learned from pilot projects and scaling up best practices.
The youth fund will be a key instrument to facilitate and catalyze broader and more focused and effective engagement of youth in urban areas globally to address urban challenges.
UN-Habitat has become a leading international agency focused on improving the livelihoods of urban youth through innovative programmes, policy and research.
The Youth Strategy has been implemented through the Youth Empowerment Programme, which falls under the Partners and Youth Branch (PYB), and utilizes three key activities: UN-Habitat Urban Youth Fund (Youth Fund), One Stop Youth Resource Centres, and Entrepreneurship and Employability initiatives.
To achieve the planned expected accomplishments outlined in the document, over the next two years the youth programme aims at achieving two main expected accomplishments: improving livelihoods for marginalised youth, and improved inclusion of young women and men in governance issues at all levels.
Four subsidiary result areas will be generated to realise the planned expected accomplishments to increase access to financial resources by marginalised youth.
Another area is to improve social and cultural space for youth expression and civic engagement in targeted cities, increased knowledge, and sensitisation of national and local authorities.
There is also endeavour to enhance engagement of strategic partners such as national, local, civil society, private sector and youth organizations) on matters of youth.
Through this programme, UN-Habitat is embarking on a strategy to ensure a focus on empowerment of marginalized youth in urban centres across the entire spectrum of the Agency’s programmes.
The strategy sees a rights-based approach as fundamental to empowerment, with knowledge building as its primary ingredient.
The mainstreaming approach during this period will focus on collaboration with relevant divisions/departments, as well as external partners, in addressing youth engagement in water and sanitation, housing, infrastructure and climate change.
