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.
Y20, a three-day youth summit ahead of the G20 in Mexico, was yet another opportunity for the voice of young people to be ignored. The unrepresentative final communiqué is likely
Here you'll find all the latest news and opportunities for youth participation in the UK, Europe and around the world brought together by British Youth Council on Friday, Nov 30
Covering the only continent in the world with a significantly growing youth population – ‘in less than three generations, 41% of the world’s youth will be African’ & ‘by 2035,
This toolkit aims to provide a resource that opens up the ‘development agenda’ conversation to hear the voices of young people; it looks to provide a means of sharing and
Last weeks Youth Level Panel event, facilitated by Restless Development, gave young people an opportunity to contribute to United Nations high-level discussions concerning the future of international development beyond 2015.
The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) is approaching its 20th anniversary. In 2014, advocates, governments, and experts will come together to assess our progress since the landmark ICPD
Recently, the Girl Up team interviewed Denise Dunning, Director of the Adolescent Girls' Advocacy and Leadership Initiative (AGALI), and Emily Teitsworth, AGALI Program Coordinator. They spoke the initiative, it’s programs,
Global forums and structures have been producing outcome documents and communiques for decades and little have been curated and analysed. As part of our global resources library BYC will archive
The British Youth Council aim to compliment the policy research led by Youthpolicy.org and the mapping documents already produced by the Open Societies Foundation. Our expertise is on national participation
We need to start a new conversation on the participation of young people at international summits and on the breakdown in global governance as the vehicle for achieving change. Whether
