Governments, UN Agencies and civil society organizations must involve young people as equal partners in the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the policies and programmes that affect their lives, with special attention to actively involving youth who are traditionally marginalized.

  • Provide opportunities for meaningful involvement of young people in the decision-making processes at every level and recognize youth involvement as a way to create a more sustainable society. ;
  • Invest in building the capacities of young people to use existing national, regional and international human rights monitoring and accountability mechanisms
  • Allocate resources, for quality research and ongoing and systematic gathering of data on young people, that is dis-aggregated by gender, age, region, marital status and other variables;
Extract from the “UNECE Regional Youth Conference Call to Action”
http://eeca.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/UNECERegionalYouthForumCalltoAction.pdf

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