Vision: A world in which the rights of every young person are realized, that ensures every young person is empowered to achieve their future potential and recognizes young people’s agency, resilience, and their positive contributions as agents of change.
Objective: To facilitate increased impact and expanded global, regional, and Country level action to address needs, build agency, and advance the rights of young people in all their diversity around the world and to ensure their engagement and participation, implementation, review. And follow up of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Priority Areas of the Youth Strategy:
Engagement, Participation, and Advocacy: amplify youth voices for the promotion of a peaceful, just, and sustainable world.
Informed and Healthy Foundations: Support young people’s greater access to quality education and health services.
Economic Empowerment through decent work: Support young people’s greater access to decent work and productive employment.
Protect and Promote young people’s human rights and support their civic and political engagement.
Peace and Resilience Building: Support Young People as Catalysts for Peace, Security, and Humanitarian Action.
Convinced of the imperative need to harness the energies, enthusiasm and creative abilities of youth to the tasks of nation-building, the struggle for self determination and national independence, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations…the preservation of world peace and the promotion of international co-operation and understanding. Requests the appropriate United Nations bodies and the specialized agencies to consider taking up in their programmes every year one or more specific youth related projects to be elaborated in close co-operation with non-governmental youth organizations on such.