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December 2023 marked the start of our journey as the Group of Partners for Youth Affairs. We started as the Informal Youth Working Group on the Summit of the Future as a way to mobilise young people across the world to submit written inputs into the Pact for the Future process.
In preparation for the zero draft of the Pact for the Future, the co-facilitators (Germany and Namibia) held consultations on 13 December 2023.
The co-facilitators also invited written inputs from Major Groups and Other Stakeholders (MGoS), other civil society networks and organisations, non-governmental organisations, the private sector and academia. Stakeholders were encouraged to reflect on the scope of the Pact for the Future outlined in General Assembly Decision 77/568 and to provide concise, concrete and action-oriented recommendations structured around the elements of the Pact for the Future.
The invitation to submit written inputs closed on December 31.
As a Group, we mobilised over 300 young people and youth-led organisations to provide a comprehensive set of language recommendations for 'Chapter 4: Youth and future generations' of the Pact for the Future. The key themes of our inputs included:
Meaningful youth engagement
Quality education
Health and well-being
Youth, peace, and security
Technology and innovation
Triple planetary crisis and sustainable development
Future generations
Gender equality and human rights were cross-cutting themes across our inputs.
We would like to express our gratitude to all who contributed to and amplified our inputs.
You can read our full written input below.
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