GFMD Youth Forum & Youth Leadership and Innovation Award

The UN MGCY Migration Working Group, in partnership with UNICEF & IOM, is organizing a Migration Youth Forum and Youth Leadership and Innovation Award for Migration for this year’s Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD).

We are looking for 70 young people to sit at the same table as major decision makers to engage in common migration policy priorities and actions. The Migration Youth Forum will be a peer-to-peer learning space for the GFMD.

We are also launching the Youth Leadership and Innovation Award for Migration for youth to present their solutions to issues around migration and development. This Award will showcase existing youth-led initiatives that empower and improve the living conditions of young people on the move. Participants will receive support in their journey, including mentorship and seed funding (TBC).

Major Group for Children and Youth & MYCP

MYCP is part of the Major Group for Children and Youth (MGCY) – the official, formal and self-organised space for children and youth (aged below 30) to contribute to and engage in certain intergovernmental and allied policy processes at the UN since 1992. Our mission is to bridge children and youth and the UN system, with a focus on migration issues, in order to ensure that their right to meaningful participation is realised. We do so by engaging children and youth entities in formal and informal forms in the design, implementation, monitoring, follow-up and review of sustainable development policies at all levels in four areas: Policy & Advocacy, Capacity Building, Youth Action and Knowledge.

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