Final Report: UNDP Forum on Youth and Development

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Final Report: UNDP Forum on Youth and Development

October 30, 2015

The ‘Youth and Development Forum’ which convened in Tunisia from 31 March to 1 April 2014, was organized by the UNDP Country Office in Tunisia, UNDP Regional Bureau for Arab States, and the UNDP Bureau for Development Policy which houses the core youth facility, and was hosted by the Government of Tunisia.

 

The ‘Youth and Development’ Forum was a unique platform from which to launch the first ever UNDP Youth Strategy 2014-2017: ‘Empowered Lives, Sustainable Future’, which encompasses three major areas of work for UNDP policy and programming on youth and development, while embedding the work of UNDP in UN system-wide efforts aimed at enhanced inter-agency collaboration and coordination, efficiency and results orientation. The Forum brought together a wide breadth of stakeholders including country delegations from over 40 UNDP programme countries comprising UNDP staff, government and youth partners; independent global and regional youth experts and organizations, representatives of civil society, the private sector, foundations, and UN partner agencies.

 

The Forum explored ways to enhance youth participation in public decision-making and political processes, in particular – one of the three youth pillars within the strategy, and was followed by a meeting convened by the UNDP Regional Bureau for Arab States which considered next steps for implementation of the strategy within the Arab region.

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Regions and Countries