Apply Now: Become a 2025 United Nations Young Leader for the SDGs(Fully-funded and open to youth worldwide)

The Young Leaders for the SDGs initiative acknowledges distinctive younger people who find themselves main efforts to assist the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Every two years, 17 younger leaders are chosen to work with the United Nations and its companions to speed up SDG implementation and have interaction different younger folks on this essential work.

From meals to trend to finance, the Young Leaders for the SDGs come from many alternative backgrounds, characterize each area in the world and assist younger folks worldwide in assist of the Goals. As a neighborhood, they work to assist efforts to have interaction younger folks in the realization of the SDGs each by way of strategic alternatives with the UN and by way of their current initiatives, platforms and networks. Over their two-year time period, they:

• Champion the SDGs by way of high-profile advocacy, storytelling and strategic collaborations in methods most accessible and relatable to younger folks throughout completely different contexts;
• Engage in world conversations, together with at UN and worldwide occasions, to amplify youth views on sustainable improvement;
• Inspire and mobilize their communities, utilizing revolutionary approaches to drive motion towards the Goals;
• Collaborate with the UN and its companions, contributing to key initiatives and world moments associated to youth and the SDGs;
• Uphold UN values, demonstrating integrity, management and accountability in all their engagements.

The initiative gives Young Leaders a vary of advantages designed to assist and amplify their affect. It gives a world platform to showcase and elevate their current work, together with entry to the United Nations system and its community of companions. Young Leaders can reap the benefits of capacity-building alternatives to improve their expertise and information, join with a dynamic community of changemakers, and take part in key occasions at the UN and past.