Six-year RIGHTS Click program will demand that young people’s voices are heard by policy-makers and technology companies.
In this blog, you’ll meet Fondation Botnar’s Young Professionals, Manuel and Illan. They started with us last year and we ask them about their work and learnings so far.
Another year of the COVID-19 pandemic has passed, and we are all increasingly getting used to the new normal. Despite significant challenges, our grantees and partners continued to deliver impact for young people in cities across the world and explore how technology can improve their health and wellbeing.
We are looking back at the achievements and learnings from an unprecedented year of innovation, community, and collaboration in Our Year: 2021 in Review.
As another year goes by, we’d like to stop for a moment, look back, and reflect on where we’ve come. It’s always been our mission to transform the cities young people live in so that they have everything they need to grow and thrive, and the events of the last two years have only cemented the importance of that mission.
Robust health data governance principles, inclusive dialogue, and bridging the digital divide will be critical for the digital health transformation to respect and protect human rights. In light of Human Rights Day, we are sharing takeaways from our session at the World Health Summit earlier this year.
In this blog, you’ll meet Fondation Botnar’s first cohort of Young Professionals, Namrata and Daniela. We ask them about their work and their passions before they take off to spend one year in the field.
We are excited to share another edition of The Catalyst with you all. In this edition, we are celebrating announcements and updates from Urban October, World Cities Day, and highlights of the incredible work of some of our partners.
More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and by 2050, that number will have grown to two thirds. As more people move to cities for a better life, millions of young people grow up in environments that don’t meet their needs.
In the face of the pandemic, young people from all over the world have demonstrated a willingness and desire to help rebuild their cities in a way that would ensure all citizens, especially young people, can thrive. In the coming decades, they will be leading the future of our cities, but unfortunately their voices and perspectives on urban issues are often left out of key discussions.
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