Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) Youth Forum 2027 – YOA

Deadline: November 16, 2026

Applications are open for the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) Youth Forum 2027. The Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) is an annual, inclusive, intergovernmental discussion board to help the comply with-up and overview of progress on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on the regional degree.

This regional platform goals to tell, empower, and help Asia-Pacific nations (particularly least-developed nations, landlocked growing nations, and small island growing states) of their efforts to attain the 17 SDGs and their targets set out by the 2030 Agenda by figuring out regional tendencies and sharing finest practices and classes realized.

The Forum convenes United Nations system our bodies, Member States, worldwide organisations, civil society, and different stakeholders whose reflections feed into and inform the ECOSOC Youth Forum in addition to the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) 2027 in New York, which critiques sustainable improvement progress on the international degree.

Program Objectives

The APFSD Youth Forum 2027 goals to:

• To guarantee adolescents’ and younger individuals’s voices, realities and views are meaningfully included in setting, reworking and implementing the regional agenda on sustainable improvement, with particular reference to the intergovernmental APFSD 2027 and HLPF 2027.
• To maintain the devoted youth convening house and focus on SDG implementation with focus on the theme “Scaling up just transitions to achieving sustainable development, poverty eradication and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals – young people at the forefront.”
• To assess the progress, gaps, and challenges within the implementation of SDGs slated for overview in 2027, together with SDGs 3, 4, 5, 10, 12, 13, 15 and 17, from adolescents and younger individuals’s perspective, whereas addressing structural and systemic obstacles to younger individuals’s inclusion in sustainable improvement.
• To contribute to the Voluntary National Review (VNR) course of from a youth perspective.
• To develop the Youth Call to Actions at regional, sub-regional and nationwide ranges.
• To present a platform for National Alliance on APFSD to share the nationwide Call to Action for incorporation into the APFSD Regional Youth Call to Action.

Call for Abstracts

They are trying ahead to your abstracts submissions related to the targets below overview. Note that the abstracts submissions should not restricted to analysis, however also can embody programme implementation on the bottom, initiatives targeted on younger individuals, and initiatives led by younger individuals.

Eligibility

• Between the age of 13-30 years (Birth date on or after 21 February 1997).
• From Asia and the Pacific area.
• Progressive and believes in human rights-based mostly approaches.
• Demonstrate distinctive strengths within the application that’s related to SDGs below overview as part of 14th APFSD.
• Show understanding of SDGs on the nation, regional or international degree.
• 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.
• Considerations can even be given to the people who’ve been part of earlier APFSD Youth Forums and the sub-regional boards and have contributed to earlier APFSD Call to Action OR have attended the intergovernmental APFSD prior to now.

Application

Those who apply to the Call for Abstracts MUST apply to the overall Call for Applications as effectively.

For extra info, go to APFSD Youth Forum.