IIED 44d ago

Collecting data is increasingly becoming a crucial step towards co-creating solutions that tackle urban challenges. Young people from informal settlements in Zambia are actively becoming data collectors to tell their own story and shape their future. This video was produced by Know Your City TV-Zambia for an exchange organised in 2025 by the housing justice team at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), as part of the 'Neighbourhoods Fit for Diverse Young People: Civic Media Practices and Urban Claims Making in Nepal and India (YCIV)' project, and facilitated through partners of the Hub for Housing Justice. More information: https://www.iied.org/youth-strategies-informal-settlements-harnessing-civic-media-drive-change-around-urban-governance