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YOUTH 21 PROCESS REPORT
Throughout the forum, different speakers, including from member states and leading researchers, emphasized the need for accessible, structured and sustainable mechanisms that will enable meaningful youth engagement in the UN.
ECOSOC YOUTH FORUM 2015 NEW YORK, USA – FEBRUARY, 2015.
At the end of the conference, the Envoy of the UN Secretary General’s Youth announced the launch of the Global Initiative on Youth Policy and a number of commitments presented as “The Baku Commitments”.
RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE PUBLICATION – OSLO, NORWAY – DECEMBER, 2014. Young people’s participation is central in realizing sustainable development. The work UN-Habitat and LNU (Norwegian Children and Youth Council) have done over the last decade has fostered a new understanding of youth as development partners. In order to support and advance the understanding of meaningful youth participation, UN-Habitat and LNU partner to produce a report suggesting five principles for real and meaningful participation in governance, called “The Right to Participate”. The report was launched by Ms Laila Bokhari, Norwegin State Secretary at the Prime Minister´s Office during the Asker Conference on Youth and Governance.
The ECOSOC Youth Forum 2015, was held on 2-3 February 2015 at UN Headquarters in NY and provided a platform for young people to engage in dialogue with Member States and other high-profile development stakeholders on how they can be included in shaping the future development agenda. Nearly 500 youth representatives actively participated in discussions with Member State representatives (including Ministers) and leaders from civil society, the private sector, media and the UN system, contributing their ideas and identifying the key priorities that might be missing or require greater attention from policymakers in the transition from the MDGs to the post-2015 context. The Youth Forum was hosted by the President of ECOSOC, Mr. Martin Sajdik (Austria) and coorganized by UN-DESA and the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth with the support from other UN entities. The forum was addressed by the United Nations Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-moon, as well as other high level officials of the United Nations System; and included six substantive panels organized around key