Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action - YUVA

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Since 1984, YUVA has encouraged the formation of several collectives, primarily comprising women,youth & children,which have engaged in the discourse on their development & thereby ensured self determined & sustained collective action in their communities

🌍 If environmental impacts are experienced differently, climate solutions cannot be one-size-fits-all.🏙️ Across the Indi...
07/06/2026

🌍 If environmental impacts are experienced differently, climate solutions cannot be one-size-fits-all.

🏙️ Across the Indian cities of Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Vasai-Virar, and Guwahati, YUVA works with communities to understand climate and social vulnerabilities that vary across different contexts.

📍 These vulnerabilities are shaped by where people live, how cities grow, and how access to land, services, and housing is distributed — often making some communities more exposed to climate risks than others.

🤝 To respond to these layered and shifting realities, YUVA’s Community Climate Action Planning (CCAP) evolves through co-developed, context-specific strategies. Adaptation and coping strategies are implemented with support from people’s collective leadership at the grassroots and in partnership with local governments.

🌱 Grassroots organisations across India are already showing what climate justice looks like in practice. YUVA’s work on climate justice continues to grow and evolve, and today we invite you to explore and learn from other organisations shaping just and grounded responses to climate change: INECC , , Habitat Forum_INHAF , Mariwala Health Initiative, , Polis Institute , and WIEGO - Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing .

💬 Do you know any other grassroots organisations doing inspiring climate justice work? Tag them in the comments below!

🌍 The environmental crisis is not experienced equally.For many marginalised communities, environmental disruptions and c...
06/06/2026

🌍 The environmental crisis is not experienced equally.

For many marginalised communities, environmental disruptions and climate impacts can reinforce existing inequalities, trapping families in unending cycles of poverty.

🏠 For those living in informal settlements, insecure housing, limited access to services, and uncertain livelihoods can make recovering from an environmental disaster far more difficult.

⚖️ This means that the climate crisis is not only an environmental issue — it is also a question of equity and justice.

As we mark World Environment Day, the conversation needs to move beyond environmental protection alone and towards understanding:
❓ Who is most affected?
❓ Why are some communities more vulnerable than others?
❓ What would more equitable responses look like?

👉 Swipe to explore.

🌎 54 years of World Environment Day. Yet what is often overlooked is that environmental impacts are not experienced equa...
06/06/2026

🌎 54 years of World Environment Day. Yet what is often overlooked is that environmental impacts are not experienced equally.

For cities in developing countries or the majority world, environmental disruption and climate crises are not distant future projections. They are experienced through flooding, extreme heat, poor air quality, and increasing pressure on already stretched infrastructure.

But the ability to cope with these impacts is not the same for everyone. Housing, livelihoods, access to services, and existing inequalities often determine who bears the greatest burden.

This is why environmental challenges are not only ecological concerns. They are also questions of justice.

City Caravan 10.0 ✨10 days of questioning, learning, reflecting, unlearning, and imagining cities differently.From 16 to...
02/06/2026

City Caravan 10.0 ✨
10 days of questioning, learning, reflecting, unlearning, and imagining cities differently.

From 16 to 25 May 2026, young people from different communities came together for City Caravan 10.0, a learning journey around cities, rights, leadership, and collective action. But more than sessions, it became a space for conversations, disagreements, creativity, and shared experiences.

Through discussions, theatre, group activities, poster-making, campaigns, and field-based learning, participants explored issues shaping everyday urban life — urbanisation, the Constitution, secularism, climate change, labour rights, governance, gender, and rights in the city.

The programme also encouraged participants to reflect on their own experiences and connect them with larger social and political realities. Alumni from previous City Caravan batches joined the journey too, sharing how they carried their learnings back into their communities, campuses, and movements.

Towards the end, participants worked together on campaign ideas, vision boards, and collective planning exercises imagining what more inclusive, equal, and people-centred cities could look like.

City Caravan continues to be more than just a programme. It is a space where young people come together to understand their city a little more deeply, build solidarity, and take small but meaningful steps towards change.

Stay tuned for more updates from City Caravan 10.0! 👀✨

Who shapes conversations around climate justice, equity, and climate finance in global climate negotiations?Join YUVA an...
22/05/2026

Who shapes conversations around climate justice, equity, and climate finance in global climate negotiations?

Join YUVA and the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) for a webinar on the upcoming Bonn Climate Meetings (SB64), bringing together speakers from climate policy, research, climate finance, climate advocacy, and civil society organisations.

Date: 27 May 2026 | Time: 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM IST | Online: Zoom

Register now: https://tinyurl.com/2vt4n2ew

Registrations are open for our upcoming webinar on the Bonn Climate Meetings (SB64)! 🌍✨How do international climate nego...
22/05/2026

Registrations are open for our upcoming webinar on the Bonn Climate Meetings (SB64)! 🌍✨

How do international climate negotiations connect with questions of equity, livelihoods and climate justice on the ground?

Join us to unpack the Bonn Climate Meetings and why they matter.
Date: 27 May 2026 | Time: 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM IST | Online: Zoom

🔗Register here: https://tinyurl.com/2vt4n2ew

What does a day in the life of a domestic worker really look like?Multiple homes. Long hours. Uncertain pay. And still, ...
22/05/2026

What does a day in the life of a domestic worker really look like?

Multiple homes. Long hours. Uncertain pay. And still, no social protection.
This Labour Month, we are revisiting YUVA’s Policy Brief on Domestic Work, based on insights from 5,019 workers across 15 districts of Maharashtra, to highlight some important realities:

Many domestic workers travel to 2-3 homes every day but still earn less than ₹10,000 a month. As per YUVA’s study, around 31% of families do not earn enough to meet their needs and often take loans. Most workers do not have written agreements, so their work conditions can change anytime.

Fixed holidays are rare, and taking leave can lead to pay cuts. Many workers are also not registered for welfare support systems.

Domestic work is essential, but the systems around it are still not strong enough to ensure fair and secure working conditions.

At YUVA, we work closely with communities to understand these challenges and bring forward their experiences through research and policy work.

This Labour Month, take a moment to explore this policy brief and better understand the everyday realities of domestic workers, and use this time to learn, reflect, and support more fair and dignified working conditions for them.

Read the policy brief here:https://yuvaindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Policy-Brief-on-Domestic-Work.pdf

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What happens at global climate negotiations like the Bonn Climate Meetings and why should all stakeholders engage? 🌍YUVA...
19/05/2026

What happens at global climate negotiations like the Bonn Climate Meetings and why should all stakeholders engage? 🌍

YUVA and National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) invites all to an online webinar on the context, key themes, and expectations shaping the upcoming Bonn Climate Meetings i.e. 64th Sessions of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies (SB 64).

The conversation will unpack questions around:
- The context and key expectations from the upcoming Bonn Climate Meetings (SB64)
- Equity, climate finance, and climate justice in global climate negotiations
- India’s priorities and what is at stake for developing countries
- Why all stakeholders engagement and stronger civil society engagement in climate negotiations matters

📅 Date: 27 May 2026
⏰ Time: 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM IST
💻 Platform: Online | Zoom

🔗Webinar link to register: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81646834032?pwd=NSKUbvCpp3Bk6PvLTbtRtbcskYyLtv.1

The recognition of street vendors’ rights has been shaped over years of research, organising, and sustained on-ground ef...
19/05/2026

The recognition of street vendors’ rights has been shaped over years of research, organising, and sustained on-ground efforts across cities. 🛣️🤝

In the late 1990s, YUVA, in collaboration with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), conducted an early census survey of street vendors on Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) lands. 🏙️📍

Mapping over 1 lakh vendors in Mumbai, the study documented their locations, working conditions, and everyday challenges, highlighting limited access to licences, vulnerability to eviction, and the absence of clear support systems.

At a time when street vending was largely seen as informal and unregulated, this evidence helped build a more grounded understanding of the sector and push for stronger protections.

Alongside this, YUVA, and organisations including the National Hawkers Federation engaged across local, state, and national levels efforts that eventually contributed to the enactment of the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014.

To explore this history further, YUVA’s blog revisits the 1998 study, offering insights into the scale, realities, and policy relevance of street vending in Mumbai. 🔍📝

The report is also available at YUVA’s Urban Resource Centre (URC), its library and knowledge space at YUVA Centre, Navi Mumbai, where it continues to inform ongoing work and understanding. 📚

Street vendors are an integral part of the city’s informal workforce. Yet, their work often exists within uncertainty. ...
11/05/2026

Street vendors are an integral part of the city’s informal workforce. Yet, their work often exists within uncertainty.

Despite the Street Vendors Act, 2014, which recognises their right to vend and outlines protections against arbitrary evictions, many vendors continue to face gaps in awareness and access to these rights.

In this context, YUVA works with street vendors to build clarity on what the Act means in practice, what protections it offers, what processes exist, and how these can be accessed. It also supports them in navigating ongoing challenges such as evictions, one of the most pressing concerns for street vendors.

Through workshops, discussions, and continuous engagement, vendors are able to better understand their rights, respond to evictions in an informed and collective manner, and navigate systems that often remain complex or unclear.

When vendors come together, they are better able to share information, support one another, and engage more effectively with local systems. YUVA continues to support and strengthen these collective processes as a pathway towards more secure and dignified conditions of work.

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