Baku to host 1st Global Forum on Youth Policies
The Forum will be hosted by the Ministry of Youth and Sports in the framework of Azerbaijan’s Chairmanship of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers.
Ministers and deputy ministers from 60 countries have already confirmed their participation in the forum.
The purpose of the forum is to advance a current overview of the state of youth policy and a reflection on the social and developmental role of youth policies, particularly in view of the post-2015 period, to develop a common understanding of the needs for and rationales of systemic and cross-sectoral approaches to youth policy, to share experiences and examples of participatory and evidence-based youth policies, their rationales and realities, their successes and shortcomings, to build a common understanding of guiding principles for integrated youth policy development and of the dynamics between concerned stakeholders at different levels, to share plans for follow-up and to develop a shared commitment to take youth policy forward.
The Global Forum on Youth Policies will be convened by the United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth together with UNDP, UNESCO, the Council of Europe and the Government of Azerbaijan.
The forum is of great interest to many countries around the world. More than 4,700 applications for participation have already been received.
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