Brazil has about 50 million young people, aged between 15 and 29 years who have shown determination to ensure your rights and occupy a prominent place in the development process of the country. Today, despite the progress that has been conquering youth, not only in Brazil but in many countries, we know that many of the more than one billion young people of the planet remain without access to basic rights such as health, education, work, and culture without speak of specific rights, which have fought an increasingly significant in recent years.

In Brazil, only recently entered juvenile demands on the public policy agenda. Gained momentum in 2005 with the implementation of the National Youth Policy (NPC), which allowed us to record in almost a decade, important advances, such as increasing the number of young people in higher education, the withdrawal of millions of them conditions of misery and poverty and the creation of mechanisms for social participation, like the Councils and National Conferences.

In the same period, the youth was inserted in the Constitution, through Amendment 65/2010, and we advance the institutionalization of NPC with the creation of specific organs and councils in the states and municipalities, as well as put on the agenda of Congress landmarks legal, with the discussion of the Statute and the National Youth Plan.

Despite these achievements Brazil still needs to give answers to not fully solved problems such as youth unemployment, which affects not only the young Brazilian, but worldwide. Combat unemployment and ensuring decent work for young people is one of the challenges the government agenda. That same tariff, included a commitment to quality education, full health, access to culture, sport and leisure, free time and the right to participation, and an item that requires further attention by the government, which is combating violence against youth, especially against young blacks, the main victims of violence in the country.

The National Youth Secretariat leverages a number of programs and actions aimed at young people. The inter-ministerial coordination and dialogue with civil society, especially with the National Youth Council (Conjuve) contributed much to get to this level. The dialogue with local management agencies contributed greatly to strengthening and advancing this agenda for the expansion of PPJ.