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Youth participation in Sousse

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  • ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE |
  • WASTE |
  • ENERGY |
  • CITY STRATEGIES & GOVERNANCE |
  • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT |
  • URBAN PLANNING |
  • MOBILITY |
  • INNOVATION |
  • CULTURE & IDENTITY |
  • SOCIAL RIGHTS

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The city of Sousse encourages and enhances youth participation to address the challenges that sustainable development objectives bring and to foster a better Mediterranean future. Young people have to be heard, listened and supported in their actions to bring a change at local, national and international level.

Tags: Youth participation, social rights, youths councils, Tunisia

Challenges addressed
  • The rising unemployment, specially affecting the youth
  • The shortage employment offer that doesn’t fit young peoples’ aspiration
  • The urbanisation challenges such as slum growth, old infrastructures, insufficient and inappropriate local services.
Main objectives
  • Involve young people to establish a local environmental policy
  • Engage youth in building the city of tomorrow
  • Test and adapt new approaches of local participation
  • Reduce inequalities between neighborhoods.
Facts

Project type                                                  European Territorial  Cooperation Project, under ENPI CBC Med.


Promoter

MedCities

The Metropolitan Area of Barcelona

Partners

Municipality of Saida

Hariri Foundation

Urban Community Al Fayhaa in the capacity of MedCities Knowledge Transfer Centre.

Beneficiaries

Municipal technical staff and political representatives, other public and private local stakeholders, citizens of Saida.


Start date                                                                                                        2011 – 2014


Project description

Sousse promoted the use of new methods, approaches and tools to involve young people in the different stages – dialogue, decision-making – and train them to imagine a sustainable, smart and inclusive city. The municipality fostered innovative spaces for dialogue and participation targeted to young people and directly linked to the municipal governance.
Some actions taken by Sousse city are:

 

  • Tomorrow’s world workshop – Le Monde d’Après –: A workshop that gathered young people from Sousse and countries from all over Africa with the aim of supporting the development of ideas and recommendations related to environmental protection; energy transition, sustainable development, tomorrow’s city, among others.
  • Youth council: the launch of municipal elections and creation of space for proposals/projects discussion and negotiation.
  • Young people as a key factor in urban development: Implement a transitional urbanization strategy engaging young people as a central actor of the project by incorporating innovative technologies to facilitate their participation and make them part of the community life. Encourage and set up proximity projects, enhance the participative approach and set up a digital consultation as an adaptation measure to Covid19.
  • Collaboration between students and the municipality: Invite students to contribute to the review of urban planning and developments, bring together the university and the city by involving teachers, students and researchers.
  • Supporting startups generating innovative ideas: Encourage the use of digital tools in developing solutions for strategic sectors, such as mobility.
Impact and results
  • Tomorrow’s world workshop – Le Monde d’Après –: Since June 2020, several activities have been run.
    • A kick-off seminar that gathered elected, representatives of 6 local authorities, partners and young people from France, Burkina Faso and Tunisia.
    • Working group sessions (by structure, territory and a mixed of both of them).
    • A closing seminar

 

  • It emerged from the discussions that there are 7 high expectations:
    • 1. A general improvement in the healthcare system and its access
    • 2. An equal education system that favors the development of responsible and autonomous youth
    • 3. A more inclusive and sustainable world, enabling the youth to be a citizen as a whole
    • 4. A governance and public institutions more modern and adapted to the citizen’s realities
    • 5. Employment and integration into work
    • 6. Protect the environment and combat climate change
    • 7. Strength policies and social cohesion.

 

This project gathered more or less 100 young people of different backgrounds, from 16 to 25 years old.

A report has been produced and gathers the outcomes of these fruitful exchanges and dialogues: Plaidoyer de la Jeunesse pour le Monde d’Après – Consultation de la Jeunesse de l’Aude, de Bobo-Dioulasso, de Ouagadougou et de Sousse, 2020.

Publications & main documents

Plaidoyer de la jeunesse (Français)

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