Youth Urban Well-being Research

Harare - October 26, 2016

The Civic Forum on Human Development, working in collaboration with Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC) implemented an urban youth wellbeing programme. TARSC leads the “Equity Watch” work in EQUINET which aims to build an analysis of available evidence on inequalities in health and its determinants within urban areas, with a particular focus on the responses to urban inequalities, whether from the health sector or through the health promoting interventions of other sectors and of communities. This programme aimed to build a more holistic understanding of the social distribution of health in urban areas and the responses and actions that promote urban health and wellbeing. These health promoting responses may be taking place in areas such as urban ecosystems, in the urban economy, in improving urban living and community conditions, social and political conditions and information and social media, amongst other areas.

During 2016-2017 TARSC and CFHD implemented several interactive cycles of review and compilation of diverse forms of secondary evidence through interactive cycles of participatory review and validation by young people from diverse settings with selected urban areas on:

1. The (different) understandings, perceptions and measures of wellbeing

2. The evidence on the drivers of wellbeing in urban youth in Eastern and Southern Africa

3. The community assets for, and the changes, approaches, practices, innovations that are proposed and are being implemented to improve wellbeing across urban youth;

4. The learning and insights from the findings, and the implications for urban health services.