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ENGAGING YOUNG PEOPLE FOR HEALTH AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Strategic opportunities for the World Health Organization and partners Engaging young people for health and sustainable development: strategic opportunities for the World Health Organization and partners ISBN 978-92-4-151457-6 © World Health Organization 2018 Some rights reserved. This work is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO licence (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo). Under the terms of this licence, you may copy, redistribute and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes, provided the work is appropriately cited, as indicated below. In any use of this work, there should be no suggestion that WHO endorses any specific organization, products or services. The use of the WHO logo is not permitted. If you adapt the work, then you must license your work under the same or equivalent Creative Commons licence. 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ENGAGING YOUNG PEOPLE FOR HEALTH AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ii Strategic opportunities for the World Health Organization and partners CONTENTS Foreword ............................................................................................................................................... iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................................................................................................. v list OF abbreViations ...................................................................................................................... vi EXecutiVE summary ........................................................................................................................viii Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 1 Leadership ............................................................................................................................................... 5 Country impact ................................................................................................................................. 11 Focusing global public goods on impact ......................................................................15 Partnerships ........................................................................................................................................21 Conclusion ...........................................................................................................................................27 References .............................................................................................................................................29 ANNEX 1: Definitions and diversity of young people .................................................................31 ANNEX 2: Methods to develop this report .....................................................................................33 ANNEX 3: List of interviewees .............................................................................................................34 ANNEX 4: Semi-structured interview questionnaire ...................................................................36 ANNEX 5: Innovative partner initiatives engaging young people, illustrative examples ...37 ANNEX 6: WHO initiatives engaging young people, illustrative examples .........................57 iii FOREWORD There is limited time available to achieve the ambitious 2030 Agenda where we will see the fruits of our collective actions. The world is changing, challenges are growing and every single action matters. With more than half of the planet under 30 and a world’s population that is younger than ever before, it is clear that we cannot achieve the Sustainable Development Goals without the engagement of young people. To fully unleash this power, institutions at all levels are required to provide an enabling environment that provides young people with their human rights allowing them to thrive up to their potential. The power of young people is probably the most I invite all leaders in institutions from local to global untapped resource in the global endeavors towards levels and from within and beyond the UN system to achievement of health for all. A first reason could be carefully read this valuable report and allow a the nature of the power of young people itself with moment for institutional rethinking on how their its enormous potential and versatile roles to play respective organizations are placed to meaningfully alongside the insufficient understanding of how engage with young people. Lastly, to young people possibly this power can be put in harmonized action everywhere, I reaffirm our solid commitment to you; towards achieving the global goals. Secondly, there is your health and your rights. Together, let us global institutional under-investment with both collaborate meaningfully and make our world a intellectual and financial resources on developing better place; now and for the generations to come. robust engagement strategies that recognize young people as partners. As the global health leader, and in recognition of the Diah S. Saminarsih power of young people, the World Health Senior Adviser on Gender and Youth Organization (WHO) is leading the way on how to Office of the Director General meaningfully engage young people as partners WHO towards achieving health for all. The report in hand presents a valuable assessment and brings examples on initiatives that engage young people from across and beyond the UN system, providing a valuable piece of evidence to WHO as well as all partners willing to improve and create meaningful engagement strategies. It comes at an opportune time whereby WHO embarks on developing an action plan on Meaningful Youth Engagement and the launch of the UN Youth Strategy. This report particularly provides valuable evidence on engagement with young people aged 10-24 and opportunities on opening safe and meaningful spaces for their voices to drive transformative change. ENGAGING YOUNG PEOPLE FOR HEALTH AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT iv Strategic opportunities for the World Health Organization and partners ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This report is an extension of World Health Anshu Mohan (Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Organization’s (WHO) long-standing work on young Child Health); Alison Bellwood (Project Everyone – people’s health and rights. It is informed by the UN World’s Largest Lesson); Charlotte Finn (Salesforce); Youth Strategy (launched in 2018), the Every Woman Robin Gorna and Mallah Tabot (She Decides); Ed Every Child Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s Barney (United Kingdom Department of Foreign and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030), the Global Affairs); Saskia Schellenkens (United Nations Youth Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents Envoy Office); Elena Kudravtseva (United Nations (AA-HA!) guidance and WHO’s mandate related to Women); Ruben Pages (Joint United