Empowering Youth for Liveable Cities programme launches in Vietnam with FIA Foundation support
The Empowering Youth for Liveable Cities programme has been launched by the AIP Foundation, in collaboration with the International Road Assessment Program (iRAP), and Youth for Road Safety (YOURS), supported by Fondation Botnar and FIA Foundation.
The programme aims to strengthen youth engagement in policy and decision-making for more inclusive urban development and builds on the success of the recent programme AI&Me: Empowering Youth for Safer Roads.
In Vietnam, motorised transportation is dense, noise level is high, air is polluted, and green spaces are lacking. City planning has left out the voices of young people – a growing demographic with distinct needs for the spaces they inhabit - leading to policies and infrastructure that do not work for young people and are not safe or healthy liveable spaces. The programme has gobal relevance: traditional city planning processes must develop to address the needs and experience of not just Vietnamese youth but the 1.8 billion young people worldwide, 90% of whom live in developing countries.
The programme will enable youth to gather sound data, build evidence-based knowledge, and translate their ideas into effective solutions. The programme will also aim to create enabling environments where youth input is actively contributing to and accepted in decisions around road safety improvements and liveable cities.
