Participation & Governance

This section explores young people’s strategies, practices and experiences of participation and engagement. It provides a selection of resources on the topic of youth participation, including a tool to map multiple entry points into young people’s involvement in international decision-making, a direct follow-up of the London Symposium on meaningful youth participation.

Ahead of the World Youth Ministers renewing their commitment to youth policies, let’s look back at 1998

Published on June 22, 2019

The youth sector gets its first future policy award - and we need your nominations to make it count

Published on April 26, 2019

Officially tasked to misbehave: introducing the second Youth Envoy Jayathma Wickramanayake

Published on March 5, 2018

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Why does the global youth sector fool itself with commitments it fails to live up to?

Published on February 25, 2018

Structures, spaces & places: our reflections on global youth participation opportunities

Published on August 24, 2016

Youth Policy Working Paper 3: Emerging trends for children, young people, and participation

Published on July 11, 2016

The Global Youth Forum of the World Bank & its Global Partnership for Youth in Development (Liveblog)

Published on June 13, 2016

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Ahead of the World Youth Ministers renewing their commitment to youth policies, let’s look back at 1998

Published on June 22, 2019

The youth sector gets its first future policy award - and we need your nominations to make it count

Published on April 26, 2019

Why does the global youth sector fool itself with commitments it fails to live up to?

Published on February 25, 2018

Structures, spaces & places: our reflections on global youth participation opportunities

Published on August 24, 2016

Ten actions for the next United Nations Secretary General to advance youth issues

Published on May 27, 2016

Beyond growing pains: New executive takes over at the Commonwealth Youth Council

Published on February 17, 2016

Gazing into our crystal ball: what will influence the youth sector in the year ahead?

Published on January 18, 2016

Gaps, Gapes and Gulfs: Data (or the lack thereof) on how youth participate around the world

Published on April 13, 2015

Participation in 2015: A positive explosion of youth or a struggle to stay relevant?

Published on April 7, 2015

A facelift for youthpolicy.org: rethinking how we present data on youth policy and youth issues

Published on February 26, 2015

Highs And Lows From COP20: The Twentieth UNFCCC Climate Change Negotiations In Review

Published on January 6, 2015

History Repeating Itself or a Brave New World? Youth and the 20th Annual Climate Change Negotiations

Published on December 18, 2014

Integrating and Operationalising Intergenerational Equity Within and Beyond the UNFCCC

Published on December 15, 2014

COP20 Climate Change Negotiations: Youth Interventions at the Start of the 2014 UNFCCC Talks in Lima

Published on December 4, 2014

First Global Forum on Youth Policies: Putting our commitments to the community on the table

Published on November 27, 2014

The Arab Youth Climate Movement - 2 Years On: Where are they now and what has changed?

Published on October 28, 2014

First Global Forum on Youth Policy: Our top 10 essential reading list for all those attending

Published on October 19, 2014

The Open Data Revolution and Sustainable Development Post-2015: What’s beyond the hype?

Published on August 25, 2014

Youth Policies in Cameroon: Evaluating Theory and Practice

Published on June 12, 2014

Fulfilling promises: Evaluating the theory and practice of youth policies in Cameroon

Published on June 12, 2014

Lessons From the South: Towards Sustainable Development a Green Economy in Kenya

Published on June 3, 2014

The Fellowship of the Hashtag: Social Media and Youth Reporting at the World Conference on Youth

Published on May 16, 2014

How and Where to Follow the World Conference on Youth: 6-10 May 2014, Columbo, Sri Lanka

Published on May 6, 2014

Democratic Republic of Congo: Using Women as a Weapon in the War Against Sexual Violence

Published on April 19, 2014

Advocacy for Democratic Governance and Respect of Human Rights

Published on March 18, 2014

World Conference on Youth 2014: A Push for Mainstreaming Youth Engagement in Post 2015

Published on February 7, 2014

A Positive Peace Framework: A Post-2015 Development Agenda for Young Peacebuilders

Published on February 5, 2014

Crossroad on Earth - Crowdsourcing priorities for new development goals and a better world

Published on January 17, 2014

Entrepreneurship as a peace strategy: a case study in capacity building in Kibera, Kenya

Published on January 9, 2014

Promoting Peacebuilding Participation: African youth as peacebuilders - a viewpoint

Published on January 6, 2014

Intergenerational Equity at COP19: Getting Inteq into the UNFCCC negotiating text.

Published on December 9, 2013

Sexual and Reproductive Health in Zambia: Rights versus reality and the post-2015 framework

Published on December 5, 2013

The role of youth work and young people in the restoration of peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Published on November 28, 2013

Members of Civil Society Must Reassess Their Role At UNFCCC Climate Negotiations

Published on November 25, 2013

Young people, voting, apathy and revolution - a youth worker’s reflections on Russell Brand

Published on November 23, 2013

Pomp or Participation? - The 9th Commonwealth Youth Forum (CYF), Columbo, Sri Lanka

Published on November 18, 2013

PUSH! for Youth Involvement in Nuclear Disarmament

Published on October 4, 2013

The United Nation’s new System-wide Action Plan (SWAP) on Youth: A first analysis

Published on September 24, 2013

What’s happening in New York - Understanding the United Nations General Assembly

Published on September 17, 2013

Youth leading the way; addressing gender equality in Far West Nepal

Published on September 16, 2013

Marrying Too Young - Child Marriage in India: Existing prevention measures and ways forward

Published on September 6, 2013

Food for Thought: Production and Waste in England and India - a growing food comparison

Published on September 4, 2013

“We should talk to them” - The Lack of Youth Representation in National and International Bodies

Published on August 16, 2013

Prof. Mango: From the Democratic Republic of Congo to Burundi - The path towards peace

Published on July 29, 2013

“Pride and inspiration need to be matched by frustration and action”- Malala Day: What next?

Published on July 25, 2013

Democracy over violence, terrorism and intimidation: Pakistani youth’s deciding vote

Published on July 5, 2013

Youth in the Post-2015 High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons Report: The signal from the noise

Published on June 29, 2013

Guiding questions, methodology, limitations and data files: The Post-2015 research process

Published on June 19, 2013

Youth Policy’s Curated List of Research Documents on the Post-2015 Development Process

Published on June 19, 2013

Learning from mistakes - Avenues to increasing youth participation and leadership

Published on June 4, 2013

Country In Focus: Kenya’s inextricable link between the environment, economy, peace and culture

Published on June 3, 2013

Post-2015 perspectives: included, excluded or diluted? Now is the time to scrutinise

Published on May 30, 2013

Congo In The Picture: showing another side of the youth of Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Published on May 25, 2013

Guest blog: The rise and rise of youth voices in the Post-2015 development process

Published on May 10, 2013

How do we support leaders to create the change now that will secure our futures?

Published on May 6, 2013

‘Small Is Beautiful’ - An Appreciation of Small-Scale, International Youth Work.

Published on April 27, 2013

The role of youth within global strategies for change - key messages from 5 leading figures

Published on April 22, 2013

Alice in Bosnialand

Published on April 18, 2013

Summary of links & resources

Published on April 17, 2013

Videos: Ricardo, Ashley, Angel & Maria share thoughts & expectations for the upcoming Youth Symposia

Published on April 17, 2013

The Future We Want, The Education We Want: Bringing Sustainable Development into Classrooms

Published on April 15, 2013

Educating for change: why the UK needs to keep climate change in the national curriculum

Published on April 15, 2013

Participation models and resources discussed throughout the Youth Participation Symposium

Published on April 10, 2013

Five experts in activism, politics and the UN on “Which structures really change the world?”

Published on April 4, 2013

Appreciating the women of the environmental & climate change movements on International Womens’ Day

Published on March 22, 2013

Uneasy bedfellows? Climate change, sustainable development and poverty eradication in 2015.

Published on March 11, 2013

Moving beyond tokenism - a youth perspective on making youth participation a reality

Published on March 1, 2013

A step forward for international youth representation - Ahmad Alhendawi: The new envoy in town

Published on February 18, 2013

Making youth policy happen - everything you need to know about the upcoming Youth Policy Symposia

Published on February 17, 2013

A key to the talks or a barrier participation: youth and official delegate status at the climate talks

Published on February 8, 2013

“To create change, it is not enough for us to merely connect and share stories…”

Published on January 16, 2013

“The outmoded top-down ideas are incapable of assuring lives of dignity for most people”

Published on January 16, 2013

“The proposed changes at the UN mark a shift that needs to be recognised”

Published on January 16, 2013

International Youth Council’s Post-2015 Youth Advocacy Toolkit on water, sanitation and hygeine

Published on January 14, 2013

Development Needs Youth! (3rd Edition): Facts and Examples of Youth Organisation Initiatives

Published on January 14, 2013

Youth-Led NGO’s in Profile: Espolea’s work on human rights, equality, discrimination and health

Published on January 14, 2013

Quality Education Should be at the Core of Youth Development, a perspective from Nigeria

Published on January 14, 2013

Despite yet another failed talks and weak outcome, I’m proud of youth - and myself - at COP18

Published on January 13, 2013

United Nations High Level Panel on MDGs: Demystifying the myths of youth participation

Published on January 7, 2013

The conversation must now move on, so we ask ‘what structures really change the world?’

Published on January 7, 2013

Jamie Drummond: “I got on that train [and] took a sledge hammer to the Berlin wall…”

Published on January 4, 2013

In crisis: Youth Participation & Global Governance. Time for a new conversation.

Published on January 1, 2013

Hannah Smith of Restless Development Reflects on the 2012 Mo Ibrahim Forum

Published on December 19, 2012

Who has a voice at UN Climate Talks? UNFairPlay’s work supporting small delegations at the UNFCCC

Published on December 19, 2012

The Bali Global Youth Declaration: For Young People, By Young People

Published on December 11, 2012

Looking beyond the automate praise at the ‘first-of-its-kind’ Global Youth Forum and its outcomes

Published on December 10, 2012

Picture Profile: Youth Actions at the COP18 UNFCCC Climate Change Negotiations in Qatar

Published on December 10, 2012

Youth Development Project in Profile - The Girl Effect and their work with adolescent girls

Published on December 3, 2012

Is civil society really ‘not doing enough’? What of government responsibility for health & wellbeing?

Published on November 30, 2012

Want to make a stand for something you believe in? Here’s The Pocket Guide to Taking Positive Action

Published on November 28, 2012

The 8th Conference of Youth (COY), Christiana Figueres, and Setting our Own Agenda in Doha

Published on November 27, 2012

Video & Transcript: Doha Deception - Youth intervention to COP18 opening plenary

Published on November 27, 2012

‘The outcome is nothing but a slap in the face’ - The United Nations fails youth, again

Published on November 21, 2012

Economic crisis. Climate crisis. Unemployment Crisis… Have young people given up the fight?

Published on November 21, 2012

Let’s be honest - we’re failing to be a joined up movement that delivers change.

Published on November 20, 2012

Latest news & opportunities on international youth participations for young people around the world

Published on November 20, 2012

African Youth: Fulfilling the Potential (2012 Ibrahim Forum Facts & Figures)

Published on November 19, 2012

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Tracking the evolving landscape of youth policy

Published on February 18, 2024

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The Council of Europe celebrates its 70th anniversary - and quietly prepares to sacrifice its youth sector

Published on May 6, 2019

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The Youth Wellbeing Index returns, with a range of methodological changes - and cautious optimism

Published on May 1, 2018

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The rights of adolescents: the most important articulation of adolescent rights since 1989

Published on February 10, 2017

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REWIND: A look back at the most significant moments for the youth sector in 2016

Published on February 3, 2017

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