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How Cities Benefit from Youth Engagement

Freetown, Sierra Leone | Guatemala City, Guatemala | New Orleans, LA

Watch this recording to learn how cities like Freetown, New Orleans, and Guatemala City engage youth in civic life through hackathons, advisory councils, outreach, and mayoral involvement. Examples showed youth driving climate action, co-governing, leading projects, and collaborating with city staff, demonstrating how youth voices strengthen civic capacity, foster innovation, and build more inclusive, future-ready governments.