{"id":606,"date":"2025-07-02T21:51:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T21:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextgenc.net\/?p=606"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:49:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:49:43","slug":"juventud-gobernanza-y-ciudad-nextgenc-en-el-encuentro-vivo-mi-calle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextgenc.net\/en\/juventud-gobernanza-y-ciudad-nextgenc-en-el-encuentro-vivo-mi-calle\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth, Governance and the City: #NextGenC at the Vivo Mi Calle Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"
On Saturday, June 14th, #NextGenC actively participated in the National Learning Gathering of Vivo Mi Calle, held at the Centro Cultural de Cali. This inspiring event brought together young people, researchers, and institutional representatives with a shared goal: to reflect on and take action to strengthen youth participation in our cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mar\u00eda Fernanda Alom\u00eda, researcher from Universidad ICESI, attended on behalf of our project. Her presentation offered key insights into how youth participation and digital technologies can help transform cities into more inclusive and democratic spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Youth Building Cities Through Participation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
During the panel \u201cYouth Participation and City-Making,\u201d we shared early findings and experiences from #NextGenC\u2019s research in Cartagena, Manizales, and Quibd\u00f3. Key contributions identified by the project include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Cartagena: Young people showed strong awareness of the local youth and participation office\u2019s budget and actively monitored its execution and the quality of services provided by the local government. Based on their experience in youth councils, they also launched a sociopolitical training school to educate other young people on how these spaces work\u2014an initiative not promoted by the local administration.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Manizales: Under the previous mayor\u2014who was under 29 years old\u2014the city developed the Youth Pact, a plan with specific goals for youth development that reached an 86.2% implementation rate. However, after the change in administration, this focus has lost priority, and youth participation in local councils has fragmented.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Quibd\u00f3: Youth in this city have shown a strong interest in updating the local public youth policy and have built meaningful partnerships with international cooperation organizations to advance this process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
These examples show that, despite structural challenges\u2014such as budget constraints, lack of political will, and intergenerational dialogue gaps\u2014young people are actively pushing forward processes of social impact and transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Value of Partnerships<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
This event also provided an opportunity to strengthen relationships and highlight the shared commitment of allies such as WRI Colombia, Universidad EAFIT, Ecorys, and the municipal governments of Cali and Palmira, all of whom expressed their willingness to support effective youth participation and leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At #NextGenC, we remain committed to supporting, documenting, and advancing these processes\u2014firm in the belief that sustainable, just, and inclusive urban governance must include youth voices at every stage of public policymaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let\u2019s keep working together for more participatory and inclusive cities!<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
El pasado s\u00e1bado 14 de junio, #NextGenC tuvo la oportunidad de participar activamente en el Encuentro Nacional de Aprendizaje de Vivo Mi Calle, celebrado en el Centro Cultural de Cali. Este evento fue un espacio inspirador que reuni\u00f3 a j\u00f3venes, investigadores y representantes institucionales con el objetivo com\u00fan de reflexionar y actuar en torno a…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-juventud"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nextgenc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nextgenc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nextgenc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nextgenc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nextgenc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nextgenc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/nextgenc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nextgenc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nextgenc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nextgenc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nextgenc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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