From Blueprint to Action: A Stakeholder Panel on Co-Designing Youth-Led Coastal Resilience in Africa
24. Jun 2026
Address:
Cape Town, South Africa
How can a strong project idea become a resilient, scalable, and community-owned solution?
In this session, Helene Meyer (HKC) and Dr. Julia Quaicoe (University of Cape Coast) present a live case study in co-design through the Coastal Resilience Academy, an emerging initiative that aims to certify Ghanaian coastal youth as flood risk assessors using the FLOODLABEL toolkit.
Rather than presenting a completed project, the session will share a pre-launch blueprint and invite critical reflection from the key actors shaping its development. The panel brings together the German research partner behind the toolkit, Ghanaian university youth leading local adaptation, a local government planner responsible for implementation, and a community leader whose trust and participation are central to success. Through this dialogue, the session will examine practical questions of trust, governance, scale, ethics, and community ownership. Attendees will gain insight into how diverse knowledge systems, sectors, and stakeholders can be brought together to design collaborative sustainability innovations that are locally grounded and future ready.
For further information on the SRI2026 follow this link.