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This report serves a dual purpose at a critical juncture for global education. It concludes the 2024/5 GEM Report cycle of reports on leadership with a focus on the importance of youth and student leaders in education, while simultaneously acting as the first in a new Countdown to 2030 series by the GEM Report that will examine the shape of education beyond the current SDG framework. By documenting the diverse mechanisms nations employ to frame youth and student participation, this report aims to empower young people in the dissemination of and debates around these findings. More fundamentally, it advocates for the essential inclusion of youth and student voices as we enter the final years of SDG 4 and begin conceptualizing a new global education agenda¡ªone that must be shaped not for youth, but with them.

Over 75,000 young people in 182 countries engaged in and co-led the #YouthLead Dialogues, sharing the realities they face today, the futures they want to build, and the actions needed to get us there. Their message is urgent and clear: the future is not something to wait for¡ªit is something to build together, on foundations of peace, justice, equality, inclusion, sustainability, and solidarity. We are not there yet, but with concrete actions and the seeds of change, we can move closer to our preferred future. Read more about young people¡¯s recommendations in the #YouthLead Dialogue Summary

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.

Multilingual versions are available in Arabic, Spanish and French .

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.

Multilingual versions are available in Arabic, Spanish and French .

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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.

Multilingual version is available in Spanish.

Informe de pol¨ªticas sobre la participaci¨®n significativa de los j¨®venes en los procesos decisorios y de elaboraci¨®n de pol¨ªticas

Los retos a los que nos enfrentamos solo pueden afrontarse mediante una mayor cooperaci¨®n internacional. La Cumbre del Futuro de 2024 brinda la oportunidad de acordar soluciones multilaterales para un ma?ana mejor, fortaleciendo la gobernanza global por el bien de las generaciones presentes y venideras. Hoy, el mundo dispone de los conocimientos y recursos necesarios para cumplir la promesa de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible, pero los cambios transformadores no ser¨¢n posibles a la escala necesaria sin la participaci¨®n y la contribuci¨®n de un amplio abanico de actores, lo cual es especialmente cierto en el caso de los 1.200 millones de personas j¨®venes de hoy. Bas¨¢ndose en ¡°Nuestra Agenda Com¨²n¡± y en amplias consultas intergubernamentales y con m¨²ltiples partes interesadas, incluida la juventud, este informe presenta tres recomendaciones clave. Se recomienda a los Estados Miembros que ampl¨ªen y refuercen la participaci¨®n de las personas j¨®venes en la toma de decisiones a todos los niveles; hagan que la participaci¨®n significativa de los j¨®venes sea un requisito en todos los procesos decisorios de las Naciones Unidas; y apoyen la creaci¨®n de un foro permanente de las Naciones Unidas para la juventud y un programa integrado desde el sistema de las Naciones Unidas para facilitar una mayor diversidad, representatividad y disposici¨®n en cuanto a la participaci¨®n de la juventud. Este es el tercero de los informes de pol¨ªticas sobre la Cumbre del Futuro.

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.

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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.

The Be Seen Be Heard report examines how and why young people engage in political decision-making, the barriers that limit their meaningful participation and the opportunities to strengthen youth voices in public life. Drawing on global survey data and research conducted by The Body Shop International and the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General¡¯s Envoy on Youth, it challenges the myth of youth political apathy and highlights the benefits of inclusive political systems. The resource puts forward concrete policy and legislative recommendations to advance youth participation, representation and influence across electoral and non-electoral processes, in support of the Be Seen Be Heard global campaign.