We are very happy to announce that we have officially joined the Global Partnership for Youth on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. This partnership brings together a list of organizations around the world interested in the youth element of the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
The objective of this partnership is to ensure that young people are actively participating in setting, implementing, and evaluating the new development agenda due to replace the MDGs in 2015. This partnership offers a unique platform for all stakeholders working on youth development to express their views, and help identify specific targets and indicators for youth empowerment, which could feature in the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
Under the five thematic areas that emerged as top priorities for young people in the My World 2015 survey—Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship, Health, Good Governance, and Peace and Stability—young people are crowdsourcing their recommendations to policy makers. The online crowdsourcing platform is being moderated by both UN agencies and youth organizations, and will allow for instant interaction between thousands of young people from around the world—complimented by a series of offline events. The expected outcome is a consolidated list of youth priorities to be shared with Member States for the intergovernmental deliberations at the ECOSOC Youth Forum.
“Our collective task in the partnership is to allow young people and youth development actors to sharpen youth priorities using the crowdsourcing platform” – Ahmad Alhendawi, Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth
YOURS continues to invite you, the Global Youth Network for Road Safety to log in to our idea (which is currently #1 on the Crowdsourcing Platform) and vote for your priorities.
Click here to vote for the Right to Safe and Sustainable Transport