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UrbanBetter es un movimiento de defensa basado en datos, una práctica de salud urbana y una plataforma de aprendizaje para un desarrollo sostenible saludable.
Misión

Nuestro objetivo es acelerar el desarrollo saludable y sostenible de los espacios urbanos en todo el mundo.

Qué hacemos

Nos centramos en los lugares urbanos y los espacios que influyen en el aire que respiramos, la forma en que nos movemos y los alimentos que comemos.

Trabajamos en el nexo entre la salud y el clima para fundamentar acciones que mejoren la salud, aumenten la resiliencia climática e impulsen los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible.
A través de nuestros pilares de promoción, práctica y aprendizaje, trabajamos para apoyar iniciativas que garanticen que cualquier persona que viva o trabaje en ciudades de cualquier lugar esté capacitada para mejorar lo urbano en todas partes.
Precisión dirigida por los jóvenes ADVOCACY

Cityzens

es un movimiento de defensa escalable basado en datos que aprovecha la ciencia ciudadana, la tecnología y la actividad física para aumentar la demanda de entornos saludables y la participación de los jóvenes en la toma de decisiones en ciudades de todo el mundo.

Una PRÁCTICA de salud urbana

Oni et al

apoya a los socios en la armonización del discurso, la política y la práctica en materia de infraestructuras y desarrollo urbanos para la salud y la resiliencia climática.

APRENDIZAJE transdisciplinar

Academia

Los pilares de promoción y práctica de UrbanBetter se sustentan en la Academia transdisciplinar y de formación universitaria, que genera pruebas y aborda las necesidades de capacidad en África

Our white paper report shows how cities can be shaped for healthier, more climate-resilient, more hopeful futures by Africa-led, youth-centred and evidence-enabled pathways.

The 10 points below distil the rationale and model outlined in the report.

Cities are on the frontlines of health and climate risks.

Cities shape how people live and thrive, yet across Africa and many parts of the world, rapid urbanisation, climate pressures and widening inequalities are outpacing systems meant to protect health. 

We need to reimagine urban infrastructure as health infrastructure, with solutions that advance climate resilience and generate health, informed by robust and responsive evidence.

01

Technical solutions alone do not transform systems – People do.

But people only take action when they believe change is possible and meaningful, and when they have the agency – will, capacity, and pathways to take purposeful steps to achieve the goal.

02

Young people should play a meaningful role in shaping urban futures.

But they are often marginalised in decision-making processes despite these decisions shaping their future. This is a matter of intergenerational fairness. Their exclusion closes off a vital source of imagination, agency and collective problem solving and drives disenfranchisement and despair.

 

03

Future-ready cities cultivate hope as a catalyst for transformation.

Hope is often dismissed as naïveté or reduced to a passive feeling that things might improve. But this framing obscures its deeper potential as a practice. A capacity to imagine alternatives, agency to work collectively toward them and maintain momentum amid uncertainty. But hope needs infrastructure to cultivate and sustain it at scale.

04

How solutions are shaped determines whether benefits are shared and equitable.

Our premise is simple: WHAT cities build matters and urban infrastructure should accelerate climate action and protect health.

Yet HOW solutions are derived matters even more –for legitimacy, equity, buy-in and sustainability. When cultivated intentionally, infrastructures of hope can strengthen agency, lower barriers to participation in decision making, improve accountability and accelerate climate and health action in cities. 

05

UrbanBetter, the Institute for Healthy Hopeful Urban Futures,

is positioned as infrastructure that sustains and institutionalises hope, treating hope as a practical modality for shaping the “WHAT” and “HOW” of healthy, inclusive, sustainable and intergenerationally fair urban futures.

We exist to transform cities by catalysing community-led (especially young people), evidence-enabled action on health and climate risks shaped by the air we breathe, the ways we move and the food we eat.

06

The Institute has two divisions: UrbanBetter Cityzens and Academy.

Cityzens equips young people with tools to generate their own data, sharpen demand and drive action, and to build coalitions with researchers, industry and public sector partners that advance healthy climate action.

The UrbanBetter Academia provides the knowledge, training and support that sustain this work and connects Cityzens to a wider ecosystem of learning, research and influence – leveraging diaspora intellectual capital as a form of knowledge diplomacy.

We envision a world where cities are healthy and climate-resilient by design and shaped by the people who live in them.

 And we are building the social, digital and intellectual infrastructure that cultivates hope as a generative force for transformative action.

08

This white paper outlines the theory behind our work, our early impact and plans for scaling this locally rooted and globally replicable model.

It offers a clear pathway for policymakers, funders, researchers and city leaders to meaningfully engage youth and collaborate with UrbanBetter on building cities where people can breathe clean air, move safely and be resilient to climate risks, and where hope is practised as a collective capacity.

09

The paper focuses on Cityzens because this initiative represents the foundation of UrbanBetter’s model.

Cityzens is where we began and where the principles of community-led, evidence-enabled transformation have been proven in practice. Cityzens Hubs across cities are showing how citizen-generated data can guide urban strategy, strengthen climate action and cultivate youth agency.

10

Read the full White Paper to see how our infrastructure of hope is shaping the future of cities and how you can partner with us to advance healthy, hopeful urban futures.

Algunos de nuestros trabajos

Cityzens
Diseñando Eco Eko: Reimaginar los espacios públicos en Lagos
  • 4 octubre 2025
Todos
UrbanBetter en la Semana del Clima de Nueva York: Llevar la voz de la ciudad a las conversaciones mundiales sobre el clima
  • 19 septiembre 2025
UrbanBetter
Anuncio de empleo: Responsable de Impacto y Conocimiento
  • 7 de mayo de 2025
Cityzens
O.M.S. Segunda Conferencia Mundial sobre Contaminación Atmosférica y Salud, Cartagena, Colombia. 25 - 27 de marzo de 2025
  • 13 marzo 2025
UrbanBetter
Anuncio de empleo: Oficial de Comunicaciones
  • 15 de enero de 2025
UrbanBetter
UrbanBetter se asocia con el 2º Foro Africano sobre Bosques Urbanos
  • 2 diciembre 2024
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