Our Shaping Narratives Team has worked to create meaningful spaces for young leaders and youth-led initiatives to share and exchange their experiences and best practices on shaping narratives on migration, and empower them in their work through offering capacity building, seed funding and visibility.
The set of activities enabling youth to be the ones changing the conversation on migration in their communities include:
@letstalkmigration is an online Instagram community with around 1,800 young members and growing sharing tools and tips on how to change the often negative narratives on migration in their communities.
Do you have an experience or some advice to share on how to change the narrative on migration in your community?
Send us a short video to alexandra.muntean@unmgcy.org and be featured on our account.
To support already existing efforts and youth-led initiatives on shaping narratives, we held the ‘Change the Conversation Challenge’ with over 55 applications videos received and 5000$ seed funding awarded to 8 initiatives led by young migrants and young leaders on migration all over the world, selected by our expert judges from UNICEF, IOM, the government of Canada, Destination Unknown and Watuwoye.
In December of 2020, the MGCY Migration Group Shaping Narratives team assumed the role of Campaign Leaders for the #ItTakesACommunityCampaign. We have actively participated in all the meetings of the Working Group, shaping and co-creating the campaign and were the first ones to start the Takeover Series of the stakeholders with a Youth Takeover.
Relevant projects
We hosted two live talks with young conversation changers on migration, three takeovers by young leaders of the IOM @unmigration account and a livestream with all the participants from the change the conversation challenge. You can watch the livestream and the live talks here:
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.
