Localization of SDGs: Youth Friendly Cities Index

14 November 2018, Paris

Habitat AssociationHabitat develops programs to contribute sustainabledevelopment and participation of the decision-makingprocess.

5 Main Programs: Governance, ICT, Financial Awareness, Rural Development, Entrepreneurship

Capacity Building: Peer to peer trainingDeveloping Participation

Target Groups

YouthChildrenEntrepreneursCooperative structuresLocal CSOsFarmersPeople live in disadvantageous areas

5322 Volunteers in all over Turkey reach1.353.112 final beneficiaries face to face.

Localization Activities

Local Agenda 21 Program in Turkey

Localization of MDGs

Local Democracy Academies

Local Informatics Academies

Localization Activities

National SDG SummitsRegional and city-basedSDG hackathons

Youth-Friendly Cities IndexSDG Ideation CampsPolicy Paper DevelopmentLobbying and Advocacy

Main Steps of the Project

1. Training of Ambassadors

• The volunteer ambassadors have attended to thetrainings about; policy paper development, lobbying andadvocacy for four days

• The ambassadors are the communication point and thefacilitators which are active at local level.

• They are responsible to organize local surveys, localcamps.

21 Cities80 Project Ambassadors

• Employment• Education• Health• Participation• City § Housing

2. Indicators

3. Surveys

2300 face to face surveys315 online surveys

4.Index

5.Local SDG Ideation Camps

• The participants choose the SDGsaccording to the needs of local andthe index of the city.

• Groups are created according to thenumber of the participants.

21 Local SDG Idea Creation Camps735 Young People

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6. Follow-up

• The groups presents their canvas modelsto the group.

• At the end of the canvas model study; each group creates a projectidea to contribute SDGs.

• Group and facilitator givesfeedbacks to the presenters.

• At the end of the idea creation camp, the policy paper is created by theambassadors.

• The ambassadors shares the policypaper to the local authorities andlocal governments.

Presentations Policy Paper Development Lobbying and Advocacy

Thank You for Your Attention

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