United nations (UN) has several key duties when sponsoring youths to attend confluence on sustainable development goals.
Empowering youth leadership.
The UN aims to build the skill of young leaders and involve them in policy making and programming, ensuring they have a seat at the table in decision making processes.
Supporting youth led organisations.
The United Nations provides financial and technical support to independent effective and sustainable organisations led by young people especially marginalised adolescent to advocate for their human rights and development priorities.
Promoting youth’s participation
The UN engages young people in the work and advocate for youths engagement in the work of others from diverse backgrounds and identities.
Capacity building.
The UN offers professional development and capacity building program’s to equipment young leaders with the skills and knowledge needed to drive meaningful change.
Global networking
The UN facilitates connections and collaborations among young leaders providing opportunities for them to attend high profile events, development training and invitations to participates in major UN events and international conferences.
Some notable initiatives includes
Y- peers
The youth peers, education, network, a comprehensive youth to youth initiatives support by UNFPA
Consisting of over 500 non-profit-making organisations and governmental institutions working on Adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
– Benjamin Ibrahim, a Freelancer, writes from Lokoja.
