World Food Forum Youth Policy Board 2027-2028 – YOA

Deadline: November 30, 2026

Applicationsn are open for the World Food Forum Youth Policy Board 2027-2028. The WFF Youth Policy Board (YPB) was launched in 2021 with the intention of offering a strategic youth-led imaginative and prescient to the coverage-associated actions carried out by the WFF Youth Initiative by means of the Youth Assembly.

The YPB is an unbiased group of 40 younger changemakers aged 18-35 from numerous areas and backgrounds that leads the WFF Youth Initiative’s work on youth coverage priorities throughout the agrifood programs. Through their work, the YPB members search to supply a platform for younger folks to actively take part, contribute and affect coverage discussions, accelerating the sustainable transformation of the agrifood programs.

Structure and Duties

The YPB members serve a one-yr time period, with the chance to reapply for a second yr, taking part in each regional and thematic work, with every member having a main space of accountability.

For the 2027–2028 time period, YPB members will perform the next obligations on the regional stage:

• Lead and facilitate regional consultative youth processes and engagements to collect younger folks’s imaginative and prescient for the way forward for agrifood programs;
• Prepare the regional consultative youth course of in the direction of the 2028 FAO Regional Conferences and, the place relevant, have interaction with regional technical commissions and our bodies, in coordination with the Youth Assembly Secretariat and FAO Regional Offices;
• Convene and liaise forward of youth session periods with numerous stakeholders, together with FAO Regional Offices, members of the WFF Young Scientists Group (YSG) and members of WFF National Youth Chapters;
• Synthesize regional youth voices and views into regional youth suggestions to be offered at intergovernmental processes and conferences;
• Represent the YPB in related intergovernmental processes and conferences to advocate for the incorporation of structured youth coverage inputs, the place relevant; and
• Summarize outcomes and progress throughout the time period in an end result doc.

Eligibility

• Have graduated from highschool and both have accomplished or be enrolled in a bachelorʼs diploma programme on the time of application;
• Be between 18 and 35 years as of 30 April 2027;
• Be nationwide of an FAO Member State;
• Demonstrate proficiency in spoken and written English at C1 stage (fluency in different FAO official languages is a bonus);
• Be out there to take part in no less than one weekly YPB assembly (period of 1 hour) between 09:00 –18:00 CEST/ CET
• Have demonstrated expertise, data or robust engagement in agrifood programs, coverage advocacy and youth empowerment;
• Be in a position to dedicate roughly 25 hours monthly to the function: – 20 hours shall be devoted to their core space of accountability (regional/thematic); – 5 hours shall be devoted to the supporting space;
• Demonstrate the power to work successfully in a global, multicultural surroundings and possess robust intercultural communication expertise;
• Not be rapid members of the family (spouses, dad and mom, kids, siblings or their respective spouses) of FAO workers;
• Not be employed by FAO; 
• Not be present or former members of the WFFʼs YSG or YPB.

Preference is given to candidates with:

• Experience inside youth constituencies or organizations;
• Experience in supporting consultative youth processes;
• Backgrounds as underrepresented stakeholders, together with farmers, Indigenous
• Peoples and girls; and
• Understanding of worldwide governance frameworks associated to agrifood programs.

Application

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For extra info, go to Youth Policy Board.