Policy Insights - Meaningful Youth Engagement: Time to Deliver
NORRAG’s work on meaningful youth engagement aims to surface fresh analytical perspectives and under-represented expertise about youth engagement and its consequences for education and sustainability globally. Despite resurgent interest in youth engagement, many young people experience youth engagement practices as shallow or performative. To advance both understanding and practice, this project asks: How can we improve meaningful youth engagement and unleash the full power of youth participation, partnership and action? Youth who have been engaged in—or
have tried to engage in—governance processes are best placed to help others understand how to work with them.
This publication collates contributions from youth to advance world-leading and world-changing, youth-led practices for meaningful youth engagement. Meaningful youth engagement can only be achieved by listening to youth and mobilising the trust of youth. This Policy Insights collection seeks to surface and amplify young leaders’ expertise on how best to engage youth for a better today and tomorrow. By so doing, readers can learn from youth experts in order to better work with them.
To advance both understanding and practice, NORRAG convened 55 youth experts from 31 countries in 6 continents to advance world-leading and world-changing youth-led practices for meaningful youth engagement. A full list of the authors who contributed to this publication, including their biographies, can be found at the end of this publication. The publication is edited by Carolina R. Earle, NORRAG’s Youth Engagement Specialist, and Moira V. Faul, NORRAG’s Executive Director. They also introduce the publication. A foreword to the publication is provided by Heela Yoon, a Young Leader for SDGs with The United Nations Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth and Founder of Afghan Youth Ambassadors for Peace (AYAP).