HipCity Innovation Centre has intensified efforts to promote citizen participation in urban governance through a series of community outreach campaigns under the From Charter to Change initiative, taking the Bwari Residents’
8–9 July, 2026 | AJ’s Hotel, Dutse Alhaji, Bwari Area Council, Abuja On 8 and 9 July, 2026, HipCity Innovation Centre brought together community and youth leaders from across Bwari
HipCity Innovation Centre convened a strategic forum in Abuja on August 14th, 2025, to confront Nigeria’s urban youth crisis, featuring participants from governmental bodies, diplomatic missions, the urban planning sector,
Eight days. Three sessions. One working policy document that started with tenants, was tested by professionals and civil society, and on 23 June finally landed where it has to land
For years, the women who hold Abuja’s informal communities together, raising children, running small businesses, organising their neighbours, have largely been invisible to the institutions that finance homeownership in Nigeria.
Two days after tenants spoke candidly about what’s broken in Abuja’s rental market, HipCity Innovation Centre returned to the DE Silver Green Luxury Hotel in Gudu on 18 June, this
For years, the people most affected by Abuja’s rent crisis have also been the people least consulted about how to fix it. On 16 June, HipCity Innovation Centre set out
World Environment Day 2026 arrives at a time when climate change is no longer a distant environmental concern. Across cities and communities around the world, its effects are becoming part of
The newly inaugurated Abuja Women Urban Coalition EXCO held a strategic engagement meeting at Hipcity Innovation Centre to deliberate on key issues affecting women and vulnerable communities across the Federal
