How to get involved

Youth Declaration

ICMYO and MGCY, facilitated by UN-OHRLLS, are creating a Youth Declaration to LDC5 gathering young people’s input and recommendations to the new Programme of Action. The process to draft the declaration entails internal consultations among the youth constituencies and their constituents – ensuring participation of all groups - including the most vulnerable - and LDCs are represented. We are also creating an online survey that will be distributed as widely as possible. The youth declaration will be used as reference in the intergovernmental negotiations of LDC5, to ensure young people’s perspectives are included in the process and its outcome. The final declaration will be adopted at the LDC5 Youth Forum and presented to Member States at the LDC5 Conference.

LDC5 Global Campaign 

OHRLLS is planning a global campaign with the aim of empowering, enabling, listening to and amplify the voices of young people from LDCs. The Global Campaign will ask young people from LDCs to share their stories, ideas and perspectives through scenes from their daily experiences, reports about issues impacting their wider communities, feed young people’s voices into the preparatory process for LDCs and provide the same young people with the opportunity to take part in LDC5. One story from each of the 46 Least Developed Countries will be selected - with due consideration of gender, age, disabilities, ethnicity, religion etc. – and rewarded with their inclusion as youth delegates in the LDC5 Youth Forum where they will be involved in discussions, media and social media activities acting as LDC5 influencers and being engaged in media interviews, social media activities, bilateral and multilateral meetings as well as discussions part of both the LDC5 Youth Forum and the LDC5 Conference.

LDC5 Youth Forum

A multi-stakeholder Youth Forum will be organized prior to LDC5 in collaboration the Government of Qatar to address youth-related development issues including but not limited to educational and skills capacity building, health, employment, climate action, peace and security, human rights and migration.

How are young people contributing to LDC5?

Africa Regional Review Meeting (22-26 February 2021, Lilongwe, Malawi)

• Nickson Kasolene – Session 1 (22 February 2021)
• Raphael Obonyo – Session 2 (23 February 2021)
• Joel Anani – Session 6 (25 February 2021)
• Youth Side-Event Recording
• ARR Outcome Document

LDC5 ECOSOC Youth Forum Side-Event (6 April 2021, Virtual)

• Event page
• Recording

Blog

• Young People’s Potential, the Key to Africa’s Sustainable Development | Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

How are young people bringing positive change?

• Meet 10 Young People Fighting COVID-19 1st Edition

• Meet 10 Young Fighting COVID-19 2nd Edition

• Meet 10 Young People fighting COVID19 3rd Edition

• Meet 10 Young People Fighting COVID-19 4th Edition

• Meet 10 Young People Fighting COVID-19 5th Edition

• Meet 10 LGBTQI+ Young People Fighting COVID-19

• Meet 10 Young People Fighting COVID-19 6th Edition

• Meet 10 Young People Fighting COVID-19 7th Edition

• Meet 10 Young Refugees Fighting COVID19

• Meet 10 Young People Fighting COVID-19 8th Edition

• Meet 10 Young People Fighting COVID-19 9th Edition

• Meet 10 Young People Fighting COVID19

• Meet 10 Young People Fighting COVID-19 10th Edition

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