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Outcomes from the Summit of the Future #YouthLead Action Day

The Outcomes Document compiles key actions and recommendations identified by young people and partners during the thematic sessions, highlighting priority areas for the implementation of the Pact for the Future and beyond. It serves as a reference to ensure we’re collectively tracking progress toward meaningful youth participation across various sectors.

Guidance for UN Country Teams on Meaningful Engagement of Youth with Disabilities

This Guidance Note for UN Country Teams seeks to assist UN Country Teams in strengthening their engagement with young persons with disabilities. It outlines strategies to create inclusive environments and ensure that the perspectives of young persons with disabilities are respected and actively considered. The goal is to facilitate their meaningful participation in shaping decisions at all levels, ultimately contributing to a more inclusive and sustainable future.

Believe in Better: Shaping the Future Through the Meaningful Engagement of Young Persons with Disabilities

The Believe In Better global research document provides an overview of statistics on young persons with disabilities aged 15 to 24, identifies the main barriers for their participation in decision-making spaces and highlights the efforts and challenges of the UN system in promoting their rights. Together with the Guidance Note for UN Country Teams, it provides targeted recommendations for UN and government entities alike to work together with young persons with disabilities and bolster their meaningful engagement in decision-making processes at all levels.

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Checklist to Ensure the Meaningful Engagement of Young Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action

This Checklist resource aims to provide guidance on how to ensure meaningful participation of young persons with disabilities in local humanitarian response. The expected users are humanitarian actors, especially those working in the field.

This checklist has been developed by the Youth2030 Disability Task Team, under the leadership of the UN Office of the Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth (OSGEY) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and in close collaboration with the Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action.

Policy Brief on Meaningful Youth Engagement in Policymaking and Decision-making Processes

Building on Our Common Agenda and intergovernmental and extensive multi-stakeholder consultations, including with youth, three key recommendations are put forward in the present Policy Brief on Meaningful Youth Engagement. It is recommended that Member States expand and strengthen youth participation in decision-making at all levels; make meaningful youth engagement a requirement in all United Nations decision-making processes; and, support the establishment of a standing United Nations Youth Townhall and an integrated programme from the United Nations system to facilitate greater diversity, representativeness, and preparedness in youth participation. This is the third of the Summit of the Future Policy Briefs.

Believe in Better: From Policy to Practice

The Believe in Better Report, "From Policy to Practice”, developed in partnership with ActionAid Denmark, demonstrates how the UN currently works with young people so that they are meaningfully and actively included in decision-making spaces at multiple levels of governance, and provides a snapshot of insights and data, into how young people are organizing, included, and responded to by those in positions of power. At the heart of these efforts is the emphasis on strengthening social accountability relationships between young people, governments, as well as the UN.

This research deep dives into activities in 25 countries from across five UN regions, with a specific focus on seven countries, namely Kenya, Ghana, Thailand, Albania, Jordan, Pakistan and Guatemala and is a follow up to the “Believe in Better” working paper from 2020.

Staying Safe with Twitter: Youth Activist Checklist - Guidance on Digital Safety and Online Protection of Young People

Call to Action on Young Women's Political Participation and Leadership

Following a virtual event on 18 November 2020, the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth and published a Call to Action on young women’s participation in politics.

Young women are the least represented amongst political leadership. IPU data on youth participation in parliaments show that only 2.2 per cent of parliamentarians are under 30, and less than 1 per cent are young women. The exclusion of young women from the adoption of laws, negotiation of budgets and mechanisms to hold governments to account undermines the valuable contributions they make for the good of future generations.

Their participation in formal politics is especially important, as young women are leading change on issues like climate change, racial justice and gender equality. They are powerful advocates for intergenerational collaboration and accountability towards a more just, sustainable and equal world. It will benefit us all to have more young women, in all their diversity, representing us when political decisions for the future are made.

IASC Guidelines on Working with and for Young People in Humanitarian and Protracted Crises

These IASC Guidelines were created in response to Action 1: Services in the Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action (CYPHA). Launched at the World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016, the CYPHA made a long-term commitment to young people through five key actions that relate to services, participation, capacity, resources and data. UNICEF and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) led the development of the guidelines, co-chairing a task force that includes: ActionAid; CARE; Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises (IAWG); International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC); Mercy Corps; United Nations Office of the Secretary General's Envoy on Youth (OSGEY); Plan International; RET International; United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR); and the Major Group for Children and Youth (MGCY).

The aim of these guidelines is to serve as the ‘go-to’ guide for working with and for young people in humanitarian settings and protracted crises.