About The Collaborative

The S²Cities Global Programme Team is a collaborative of organisations leveraging their individual knowledge and expertise to create safer cities for young people.

Global Partners

Global Infrastructure Basel
PROGRAMME MANAGER AND INTERMEDIARY ORGANIZATION
PROGRAMME MANAGER AND INTERMEDIARY ORGANIZATION

Global Infrastructure Basel

Disbursing grants and supporting the design, implementation, and scaling of sustainable and resilient solutions addressing urban safety.

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BUUR | Part of SWECO
STRATEGIC ADVISOR
STRATEGIC ADVISOR

BUUR | Part of SWECO

Bringing placemaking perspectives to build safe and thriving communities.

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Relational Well Being Collaborative
STRATEGIC ADVISOR
STRATEGIC ADVISOR

Relational Well Being Collaborative

Developing a relational and integrative approach to understanding, assessing and advancing wellbeing.

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EAFIT University
GLOBAL MONITORING, EVALUATION AND LEARNING PARTNER
GLOBAL MONITORING, EVALUATION AND LEARNING PARTNER

EAFIT University

Creating, synthesizing, and transmitting new knowledge to support research and learning.

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City Collab
GLOBAL COMMUNICATION PARTNER
GLOBAL COMMUNICATION PARTNER

City Collab

Using storytelling to advance outreach and build an engaged community around issues of youth safety in cities.

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PlacemakingX
Research Partner
Research Partner

PlacemakingX

A global network of leaders accelerating placemaking as a way to create healthy, inclusive, and beloved communities.

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City Space Architecture
Research Partner
Research Partner

City Space Architecture

Working to improve the quality of life in urban areas through the design of inclusive and sustainable public spaces.

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Universidad del Azuay
Research Partner
Research Partner

Universidad del Azuay

Advancing science and knowledge for social and environmental justice.

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Local Partners

ICLEI
LOCAL IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORT PARTNER
LOCAL IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORT PARTNER

ICLEI

Building connections across local governments worldwide to shape policy and spark action towards sustainability in urban environments.

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Fundaciòn Mi Sangre
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY STRENGTHENING PARTNER
Envigado | Colombia,
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY STRENGTHENING PARTNER

Fundaciòn Mi Sangre

Activating ecosystems that enable new generations to lead the construction of a peace culture in Colombia.

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WRI Indonesia
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY STRENGTHENING PARTNER
Bandung | Indonesia,
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY STRENGTHENING PARTNER

WRI Indonesia

Championing the participation of youth in policymaking for safe and resilient urban spaces.

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Huasipichanga
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY STRENGTHENING PARTNER
Ambato & Cuenca | Ecuador,
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY STRENGTHENING PARTNER

Huasipichanga

Co-creating urban solutions with communities, governments, and companies to build better cities to play, to include, to live.

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Fundación Amaru
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY STRENGTHENING PARTNER
Cuenca | Ecuador,
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY STRENGTHENING PARTNER

Fundación Amaru

Promoting Ecuador’s rich biodiversity through immersive experiences, education, and research programmes, while safeguarding its natural and cultural resources for a sustainable future.

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Integrar
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY STRENGTHENING PARTNER
Cuenca | Ecuador,
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY STRENGTHENING PARTNER

Integrar

Facilitating the growth of individuals and organizations by enhancing their skills, fostering innovation, and effectively managing knowledge.

Fundación Tandem
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY STRENGTHENING PARTNER
Ambato | Ecuador,
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY STRENGTHENING PARTNER

Fundación Tandem

Building bridges of dialogue among citizens, civil society, the private sector, and local governments and designing and implementing actions to make cities safe, inclusive, sustainable, and resilient.

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CorpoAmbato
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY STRENGTHENING PARTNER
Ambato | Ecuador,
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY STRENGTHENING PARTNER

CorpoAmbato

Promoting entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainable economic development in the Tungurahua province by ensuring the active participation of all local actors.

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Cordilleran Youth Center
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY STRENGTHENING PARTNER
Baguio | The Philippines,
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY STRENGTHENING PARTNER

Cordilleran Youth Center

Harnessing the potential of youth as leaders to advance the rights, interests and welfare of indigenous and young people in the Cordillera.

 

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WeSolve Foundation
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY STRENGTHENING PARTNER
Naga | The Philippines,
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY STRENGTHENING PARTNER

WeSolve Foundation

Incubating and supporting young change-shapers to bring their social change ideas to scale through the power of collective impact.

 

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Funding Partners

Fondation Botnar
PRIMARY DONOR AND STRATEGIC ADVISOR
PRIMARY DONOR AND STRATEGIC ADVISOR

Fondation Botnar

Catalyzing partnerships and investing in emerging digital technologies to improve the health and wellbeing of young people in growing urban environments.

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Grant Managing Partners

Swiss Philanthropy Foundation
GRANT MANAGER AND ADMINISTRATIVE PARTNER
GRANT MANAGER AND ADMINISTRATIVE PARTNER

Swiss Philanthropy Foundation

Administering and managing the philanthropic funds to implement programme commitments sustainably.

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Meet The Team
Explore this interactive KUMU map to know more about S²Cities partners and team members across multiple cities, countries, and continents!
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Principles Shaping Our Programme

Urban safety

(n.) /ˈərbən/ /ˈsāftē/
Measures taken to counter feelings of insecurity and exclusion among city residents and to tackle the root causes of those feelings. By improving urban safety, the programme strives to ensure freedom of movement and access, support unhindered participation in public life, and increase ownership and belonging.

Relational approach to wellbeing (RWB)

(n.) /rəˈlāSH(ə)n(ə)l/ /ˈˌwel ˈˌbēiNG/
RWB is an integrative approach to understanding wellbeing that looks beyond individual psychology or behaviour and focuses on the underlying processes that promote healthy environments and happy lives. The concept is centred around three interlinked dimensions of wellbeing: material (having enough), relational (being connected), and subjective (feeling good).

The approach also goes beyond the experience of wellbeing to address the underlying conditions that promote or hinder wellbeing. It targets three forms of underlying drivers of wellbeing: personal (personality and personal history), societal (social norms, economy, and culture), and environmental (built environment, climate, and ecological sustainability).

Innovation

(n.) /ˌinəˈvāSH(ə)n/
Progressive solutions that bring incremental improvements to products or processes. Today, innovation in cities utilizes experimentation, human-centric design, data analytics, and technology to identify future possibilities and opportunities. We see young people as key stakeholders in driving innovation processes in cities.

Co-creation

(n.) /kō’krēˈāSH(ə)n/
A process of value creation through productive collaboration between all relevant parties that places end-users at the center. In city development, it involves the active flow of information between governments, academia, businesses, non-profits, and citizens, to ensure a common understanding of problems and generate common solutions.

Placemaking

(n.,v.) /plāsˈmākiNG/
Placemaking invites people to collectively reimagine and reinvent urban spaces as the heart of every community to maximize shared value. It facilitates creative patterns of use, considering the physical, cultural, and social identities of a place, as well as the needs of different users.

Participatory decision-making

(n.) /pärˈtisəpəˌtôrē/ /dəˈsiZHənˈmākiNG/
A creative process that gives ownership of decisions to a group as a whole to find effective options that work for everyone. A common process of participatory decision-making is consensus-building — finding the common ground through solutions that are acceptable to all and are best for the group’s priorities.