Registration Open – Global Youth Briefing on ECOSOC Youth Forum | UN Youth Compass / Virtual Youth Blast
This briefing is co-organized by the Major Group for Children and Youth, UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs, UN Youth Office and EYF Youth Partners Group.
The briefing will focus on elevating consciousness of and producing inputs in direction of the ECOSOC Youth Forum – together with upcoming consultations and engagement alternatives – and gathering inputs and priorities for the upcoming Voices of Youth report and HLPF Children and Youth Sectoral Paper.
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About UN ECOSOC Youth Forum
The subsequent ECOSOC Youth Forum will happen from the fifteenth-seventeenth April, 2025 on the UN Headquarters in New York. The Forum offers a worldwide platform for dialogue amongst Member States and younger leaders from around the globe on options to challenges affecting youth wellbeing. It additionally serves as a singular area for younger individuals to share their imaginative and prescient and actions in addition to present a chance to advance youth options to speed up the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs.
In Action 43 on “Strengthening the Economic and Social Council to accelerate sustainable development,” of the Pact for the Future, Member States determined to: “Support the youth forum of the Council to enhance youth engagement, ensuring that the forum is a platform for youth from across all regions to continue to share their ideas and engage in dialogue with Member States.”
In this context, The ECOSOC Youth Forum will likely be guided by the 2025 theme of ECOSOC and the High-level Political Forum (HLPF): “Advancing sustainable, inclusive, science- and evidence-based solutions for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals for leaving no one behind”. It may even present alternatives to debate concrete actions and commitments to comprehend the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for in-depth evaluate on the 2025 HLPF, particularly SDG 3 (Good well being and effectively-being), SDG 5 (Gender equality), SDG 8 (Decent work and financial progress), SDG 14 (Life under water) and SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals).
The Youth Forum may even collect younger individuals to share their suggestions and modern concepts of key cross-chopping agendas together with advancing the 2030 Agenda, implementing the Pact for the Future and contributing to completely different intergovernmental processes in 2025 such because the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development and the Second World Summit for Social Development – WSSD2. The 2025 ECOSOC Youth Forum is convened by the President of ECOSOC and arranged by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) in shut collaboration with the UN Youth Office, the United Nations Inter Agency Network on Youth Development (IANYD) and co-convened by the Major Group for Children and Youth (MGCY) and the International Coordination Meeting of Youth Organizations (ICMYO), on behalf of the EYF Youth Partners Group, with technical enter from youth organizations related to the theme of the discussion board. More particulars concerning the Forum can be found on the hyperlink here.
UN Youth Compass / Youth Blast Overview
An ideal majority of younger individuals attend the ECOSOC Youth Forum for the expertise. But this isn’t an expertise of visiting the UN constructing; we need an expertise of significant engagement that produces significant impression. The Youth Blast organised by MGCY, EYF Youth Partners and youth constituencies globally- held yearly forward of ECOSOC Youth Forum – serves as an in-depth capability-constructing session and alternative for substantive dialogue as a way to decrease the barrier to offer a extra equitable share of alternatives whatever the younger particular person’s prior instructional and experiential capability. It promotes common, equitable entry to all youth and goals to advertise robust collective participation within the Youth Forum and subsequent steps of the method in direction of the High Level Political Forum, FfD-4 World Social Summit and different main foras in 2025. Recognising the difficult limitations younger individuals face to their in-particular person participation, this 12 months we will likely be internet hosting each a digital youth blast (4 April) and an in-particular person youth blast with hybrid modalities (14 April). These will function essential youth-led areas for capability constructing and ability sharing, networking, strategic dialogue and fostering new collaborations, as younger individuals finalize their preparations for the ECOSOC Youth Forum.
The digital UN Youth Compass / Virtual Youth Blast on April 4 will likely be in type of a worldwide assembly targeted on elevating consciousness of and producing inputs in direction of the ECOSOC Youth Forum – together with upcoming consultations and engagement alternatives – and gathering inputs and priorities for the upcoming Voices of Youth report and HLPF Children and Youth Sectoral Paper. The in-particular person youth blast on April 14 will focus on making ready younger individuals for his or her participation within the discussion board and co-creating statements, interventions and advocacy methods to profit from their participation. For the digital Youth Blast, a partnership is being held with initiatives carried out by the UN Youth Office as elaborated under. We invite you to register now!
The Meaningful Youth Engagement Policy Brief of the Secretary-General proposes that Member States help “the establishment of a standing United Nations Youth Townhall, convened by the Assistant Secretary-General for Youth Affairs, to provide the world’s young people with a dedicated space to better prepare for participation in decision-making mechanisms of the United Nations and to boost the diversity of youth voices informing the work of the United Nations […]”.
Against that backdrop, the United Nations Youth Office (UN Youth Office) is dedicated to designing and implementing a brand new flagship initiative referred to as the UN Youth Compass. The UN Youth Compass is an providing to empower younger individuals and stakeholders to meaningfully interact in intergovernmental policy- and determination-making processes. It goals to boost the range, inclusivity, and effectiveness of youth participation whereas serving as a hub for connection and collaboration. By offering steerage, engagement alternatives and sources, the Compass helps younger individuals navigate these areas and interact extra successfully in shaping international insurance policies. This is immediately responding to the commitments made within the Pact for the Future to strengthen significant youth participation at worldwide stage.
At the core of this initiative are the ideas of youth participation and youth illustration as foundations of inclusive and significant processes. The UN Youth Office will pursue youth participation in chosen intergovernmental spaces1 guaranteeing that numerous voices may be heard, whereas guaranteeing that youth illustration can immediately be mirrored within the associated choices and outcomes.
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