The Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) Youth Forum 2025 shall be organised forward of APFSD 2025 by co-conveners, Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW), Youth LEAD, Y-PEER Asia Pacific Centre, and the Major Group for Children and Youth (MGCY), in partnership with the Right Here Right Now Global Partnership, Asia Pacific Regional CSOs Engagement Mechanism (APRCEM) and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP), and in co-collaboration with the Children and Youth Major Group to UNEP.
In 2025, the Youth Forum shall be held in a hybrid modality from 19-Twenty first February with the theme, “ Advancing sustainable, inclusive, science- and evidence-based options for the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs for leaving no younger particular person behind in Asia and the Pacific “. The discussion board will convey collectively younger individuals representing numerous age-groups of adolescents and youth, below the age of 30, to debate and deliberate on the theme of the twelfth APFSD.
The Forum goals to:
-
To guarantee younger individuals’s voices, their realities and views are meaningfully included, in setting, remodeling and implementing the regional agenda on sustainable growth, with particular reference to the intergovernmental APFSD and HLPF 2025.
-
To construct on the momentum generated by the Summit of the Future, with deliberations from the APFSD Youth Forum informing regional youth preparations for the 4th UN Financing for Development Conference (FfD4), Beijing+30 course of, 2nd World Social Summit in 2025, and different key avenues.
-
To maintain the devoted youth convening area of “APFSD Youth Forum” and focus on SDG implementation with focus on “Advancing sustainable, inclusive, science- and evidence-based solutions for the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs for leaving no one behind in Asia and the Pacific”.
-
To assess the progress, gaps, and challenges within the implementation of SDGs slated for in depth assessment together with SDG 3,5,8,14 and17 from younger individuals’s lens, and in addition deal with structural and systemic boundaries to youth inclusion in sustainable growth.
-
To develop the Youth Call to Action at regional, sub-regional and nationwide stage to tell the intergovernmental APFSD, and HLPF in 2025.
Key cluster objectives below dialogue embody Goal 3 (Good Health and Well Being), Goal 5 (Gender Equality), Goal 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), 14 (Life Below Water), and 17 (Partnerships for the Goals).
We are additionally trying ahead to abstracts submission (Link to Abstract Submission) and innovation proposals (Link to Innovation Proposal Submission) on local weather motion, gender equality and human rights, well being and wellbeing, younger individuals’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) info and companies, Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), respectable work, and partnerships to grasp SDGs within the Asia and Pacific.
Young persons are inspired to apply and showcase their work on the APFSD Youth Forum 2025.
APPLICATION IS OPEN TO THOSE WHO ARE:
1. Below 30 years of age (Birthdate on or after February 21, 1995).
2. Is progressive and believes in human rights-based approaches.
3. Demonstrates distinctive strengths within the utility that’s related to SDGs below assessment as a part of twelfth APFSD.
4. Shows understanding of SDGs on the nation or regional stage.
5. Individuals from marginalised / socially excluded teams, communities and functions from far to achieve locations shall be prioritised to make sure variety and inclusion in participation on the APFSD Youth Forum.
6. Considerations may even be given to the people who’ve been a part of earlier APFSD Youth Forums and contributed to earlier APFSD Call to Action OR have attended the intergovernmental APFSD prior to now.
1. Application deadline: 25 December 2024 (12 Midnight, Thailand time)’
2. The APFSD Youth Forum shall be performed in English.
3. Please point out in the event you require interpretation companies within the utility type. Conveners of the Youth Forum will attempt to accommodate your request to the most effective of our skill.
4. If you might be beneath 18 and you might be chosen to take part within the Youth Forum, you can be requested to supply consent out of your guardian/guardian within the later course of.
Related
