June 2014

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Spotlight

The International Federation for Family Development (IFFD)

International Youth Day 2014 Campaign

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) has launched its Mental Health Matters campaign for International Youth Day 2014!
From 12 June -12 August you can help reduce the stigma surrounding youth and mental health conditions by using the #MentalHealthMatters and joining our activities on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest.

We want young people to support the campaign by submitting artwork, poems, photos, illustrations and stories about the positive impact that speaking out about mental health issues has had. Join the campaign on Facebook: 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1428958714042612/

Interested in organizing your own event for IYD? Check out our IYD 2014 Toolkit!
http://bit.ly/1qbTogG


Inter-Agency Update

Inter-Agency Update

The United Nations Inter-agency Network on Youth Development (IANYD) met for its monthly meeting on 4 June at the United Nations Headquarters, New York. The meeting provided an opportunity for members to update and coordinate on youth related work. At the same time, the IANYD sub working group on youth participation in peacebuidling was holding a two day workshop to develop operational guidance for their newly launched ‘guiding principles for young people's participation in peacebuilding'. The Network also discussed plans to celebrate International Youth Day on 12 August, 2014. You can read the guiding principles by clicking here.


UN Entities Highlighted News

UNCDF and CYFI - Children and Youth have a say in the Post-2015 Agenda

UNCDF and CYFI - Children and Youth have a say in the Post-2015 Agenda

Check out the contributions of children and youth to the post 2015 agenda in this video of an event held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 23 May, 2014 entitled “A Chance for Change: Child and Youth Finance in the Post-2015 Agenda”. The event was jointly co-organized by the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI). Children and youth from across the world presented their ideas, which were summarized in 8 points, to an audience of 341 participants, including ambassadors and representatives of 43 permanent UN missions.

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ILO: The ILO issues a Call for Papers on School-to-Work Transition

ILO: The ILO issues a Call for Papers on School-to-Work Transition

The International Labour Organization's Work4Youth Project invites researchers to submit proposals for innovative research papers relevant to labour market transitions of young women and men in developing countries, making use of one or several of the recent “school-to-work transition survey (SWTS)” datasets from 28 countries. The authors of the best nine papers will be invited to present their work in Geneva and will be considered for official ILO publications. Those interested should submit a 2-3-page proposal to w4y@ilo.org by JULY 31, 2014

Website link of the submission please click here.

UNIDO: Productive Work for Youth in Armenia – supporting young entrepreneurs

UNIDO: Productive Work for Youth in Armenia – supporting young entrepreneurs

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO promotes a conducive business environment for youth-led businesses as well as local private sector development in Armenia. The UNIDO-led project, launched in 2013, with financial support from the Government of Austria, assists youth start-up entrepreneurs aged 18 to 35 years through providing non-financial and financial services. It is expected that over 300 potential and existing young entrepreneurs (of which 50% women) to receive tailored entrepreneurship training, and up to 80 youth-led businesses to receive access to finance via the youth business revolving fund.

 

 

 

UNV: Youth from the Arab States engage in UNV’s first Regional Youth Volunteering Forum

UNV: Youth from the Arab States engage in UNV’s first Regional Youth Volunteering Forum

Over the past three years of political transition, youth in Arab states have repeatedly proven their power, gripping the world’s attention. However, this is only the beginning of a path of organization and unity that must be followed to achieve a lasting change. For the first time, youth from across the Arab region participated in a forum organized by the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme to discuss methods of promoting youth volunteerism, a component of the Arab Youth Volunteering for a Better Future project that is underway in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. The forum was successful in providing an atmosphere and space for partnership, peer-to-peer collaboration and reinforcing relations with local governments. More

 

UNFPA Tunisia: Young Tunisians learn about Citizenship & Human Rights at school

UNFPA Tunisia: Young Tunisians learn about Citizenship & Human Rights at school

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Tunisia supported the creation of Citizenship and Human Rights clubs in schools. The project aims to spread the values and principles of Human Rights and Citizenship among young students and enable them to get involved in public life at the local level. For smooth functioning of these clubs, UNFPA supported elaborating of a guideline about how to manage such clubs. Practical fact sheets are made available to managers to facilitate the activities of clubs. More

 

 

YUNGA- FAO: YUNGA Cloth Badges now available!

The Youth and United Nations Global Alliance (YUNGA) is delighted to announce that the cloth badges for all of their current Challenge Badges are now available for purchase from the WAGGGS website! Take a look: www.wagggs-shop.org/en/products/badges
For the full list of all Challenge Badge booklets, go to: http://yunga-youth.weebly.com/themes.html
www.yunga-un.org

 

 

Youth in Action

Restless Development & Plan UK: Children & Youth in Post-2015 Governance & Accountability Task Team

Restless Development & Plan UK: Children & Youth in Post-2015 Governance & Accountability Task Team

Restless Development and Plan UK have established a Children & Youth in Post-2015 Governance & Accountability Task Team. The initial group, now made up of 10 young people from across the globe with experience in governance and accountability projects, will focus on embedding young people’s recommendations into the post-2015 development framework. The task team will act as champions at the international level and support children and youth to engage at the national level, during the negotiations and afterwards in the implementation of the new framework.More info.

 

YBF, EYP Hosts First Euro-Africa Youth Parliament 2014

YBF, EYP Hosts First Euro-Africa Youth Parliament 2014

Youth Bridge Foundation, organizers of the annual African Youth and Governance Conference Initiative, in collaboration with the International Office of the European Youth Parliament has organized the first Euro-Africa Youth Parliament in Berlin, with 100 youth delegates from about 20 African and 30 European countries to deliberate on matters of mutual interest to them. More info.

 

Publications

ILO: New ILO Work4Youth Publications on “Labour market transitions of young women and men”

ILO: New ILO Work4Youth Publications on “Labour market transitions of young women and men”

The International Labour Organization Work4Youth project has published four new reports presenting the highlights of the 2013 School-to-work Transition Survey (SWTS) run in Nepal, Bangladesh, Ukraine and Jordan. The SWTS is a unique survey instrument that generates relevant labour market information on young people aged 15 to 29 years. The survey captures longitudinal information on transitions within the labour market, thus providing evidence of the increasingly tentative and indirect paths to decent and productive employment that today’s young men and women face. More

UNFCCC: Youth in Action on Climate Change: Inspirations from around the World

UNFCCC: Youth in Action on Climate Change: Inspirations from around the World

With the opening of the conference on 4 June, the latest flagship publication of the United Nations Joint Framework Initiative on Children, Youth and Climate Change launched in all official UN languages. The objective of the publication is to highlight concrete work young people do to incite their governments to scale up climate action and raise ambition towards a post-2020 climate change regime. More


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