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fix what they cannot measure. An UN-sponsored collaboration
between the ILO YEN, UNEP and other relevant agencies
should systemically monitor how much youth are
benefiting from these programs and provide assistance to national
labour statistics agencies on tracking these data.
4. Improving Youth Participation
The Adoption of either one global, or several regional conventions
based on principle 10 of the Rio Declaration .
Such instrument could serve as a tool of enshrining participation
as a right, and upgrade existing participation practices.
Hence a compliance mechanism is crucial and could potentially
be modeled to the compliance mechanism of the Aarhus
Convention.
The inclusion of civil society representatives and youth representatives
in bureaus and boards of relevant bodies for
youth development is necessary, regardless of its political
process or implementing instrument nature. This could be inspired
by different models already in existence, such as the
UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board or the Council of
Europe’s Joint Council on Youth. In case a Sustainable Development
Council is established, a strong youth-presence in
the governance of the Council should be one of the criteria
guiding its establishment.
The support of young people and their organisations to participate
in the decision-making process, though the recognition
that participation is more than access and needs
empowered actors. It is crucial to give an explicit mandate
and adequate resources for UNDESA to empower young
people to be involved into decision making. The de-facto inclusion
of youth-representatives in the National Sustainable
Development Councils (NSDCs). Youth are one of the
Agenda 21 Civil Society Sectors that are too easily forgotten
in the make-up of these NSDCs. In councils where young
people are included, their membership is often limited to an
observer role. Hence a balanced representation of the Agenda
21 interests is crucial when redesigning the NSDCs. Where
such councils already exist, they should be strengthened and
provided with the adequate resources, political leverage and
support by exchanging best-practices.
5. Improving representation of young and future generations
Furthermore, we call for the establishment of an independent
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Future Generations.
The High Commissioner would have both an agendasetting
and advisory role with regard to the long-term
environmental and social coherence and impacts of UN agencies,
policies and programmes and other multilateral treaties.
It would function in close cooperation with civil society. This
office would also support the capacity of developing countries
to establish effective mechanisms of intergenerational
accountability.
Please note this article is based on the UNCSD Major Group
of Children and Youth's contribution to input for the Global
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Sustainability Panel on youth unemployment and youth participation.
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