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UN-Habitat launches call for Urban Youth Fund applications
Nairobi 26 February 2015- UN-Habitat on Thursday launched call for applications for the Urban Youth Fund.
In its seventh year, the Fund provides grants to projects led by young people aged 15-32 years who are piloting innovative approaches to employment, good urban governance, shelter, secure tenure and risk rehabilitation.

The Fund aims to assist youth-led organizations in designing and implementing projects that will contribute to sustainable urbanization in the developing world. Furthermore, the Fund seeks to gain insight from successful grassroots youth projects and create greater awareness of the need for youth mainstreaming in development policies and strategies.
This year’s call for proposals strongly encourages applicants to ensure their projects include the following criteria:

1. A strategy to work with cities and or local authorities in order to maximize their ability at making an impact at the policy level. One of the key objectives of UN-Habitat’s youth programme is to enhance the capacity of local authorities to mainstream youth issues into their programmes and services.

2. The inclusion of the Human Rights Based Approach during projects’ implementation. The Human Rights Based Approach will be presented as a cross cutting issue toward the various UN- Habitat thematic areas in the projects’ goals. This is with the aim to empowering people to know and claim their rights. This also serves to increase the ability and accountability of individuals and institutions that are responsible for respecting, protecting and fulfilling these rights. For more information on Human Rights Based Approach please visit: http://unhabitat.org/urban-themes/human-rights/

UN-Habitat invites young people based in cities or towns from the developing world to apply for grants from the fund. The application is open from February 15 to April 15 2015. To apply please visit: http://www.unhabitatyouthfund.org