A Wasted Potential - Bringing Youth led Solutions to Scale

Cutting-edge youth solutions that have the potential to transform the water and waste sector face economic, political and cultural hindrances to upscaling.

This interactive session aims at showcasing some of today’s most promising water and waste reduce/reuse solutions, and their major hindrances to upscaling, in order to identify possible strategies to overcome them. The session will start off with presentations of case studies, followed by round table discussions in which project holders and the audience will work together to analyze best practices and impediments in the implementation and upscaling phase.

Using their experience and expertise, the audience will contribute to ideas to expand and scale-up the projects. At the end of the session, the audience will have a better understanding of youth actions around the world. The project holders will leave with constructive ideas for expanding their impact.