Championing youth centrality: Co-creating innovative solutions for livelihoods with, for, and by young people (ECOSOC Youth Forum side event)
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ECOSOC youth forum

Time: 08:30-10:00 ET / 12:30-14:00 GMT / 14:30-16:00 CET

Location: 633 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

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Overview: This side event at the ECOSOC Youth Forum will share best practices on engaging young people in developing programs and solutions directed towards ensuring quality education, skilling initiatives and access to decent jobs (SDG 8) by promoting the Public-Private-Youth Partnership (PPYP) model (SDG 17) with a focus on green jobs and sustainable economies.

By focusing on youth centrality as a key enabler to achieve SDGs 8 and 17, this event will:

  • Promote youth centrality: Advancing promising approaches to meaningful and inclusive youth engagement and placing youth at the center of all stages of programming of educational programs and skilling initiatives, ensuring that these programs and initiatives are co-created with, for, and by young people.
  • Sharing best practices: Highlight successful Public-Private-Youth Partnership (PPYP) that have effectively improved educational outcomes and created pathways to decent employment for youth.
  • Facilitate intergenerational and intersectoral partnerships: Promote collaboration between youth and stakeholders across both public and private sectors to scale innovative solutions that are led and co-created by young people, scaling up their impact and reach in addressing the future of work and essential skill requirements.

This is a hybrid event. In-person participants should register using the link above to receive detailed information for attendance. Please note that due to space constraints, confirmed in-person attendees will receive an email that will allow them to enter the building.

Speakers:

  • Kevin Frey, Chief Executive Officer, UNICEF Generation Unlimited
  • Meeta Rajivlochan, Honorable Secretary, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India
  • Asheesh Advani, Chief Executive Officer, Junior Achievement Worldwide
  • Cynthia Steele, President and Chief Executive Officer, EMpower Foundation
  • Jurriaan Middelhoff, Ambassador for Youth, Education and Work, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Urmila Sarkar, Deputy Director – Programs, UNICEF Generation Unlimited
  • Foluyinka Fakoya, Global Advocacy Specialist, Global Partnership for Education
  • Joshua Opey, Chairman, Commonwealth Youth Council
  • Rochelle Prasad, GPE Youth Leader, Canada
  • Kapwani Kavenuke, Member, African United Nations Youth Delegate and Representative Program
  • Melissa El Feghali, Youth Representative, World Scouting
  • Nada Zammel, ECOSOC Youth Delegate, UN Youth Office

The deadline for in-person registration is April 15th.

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