Expanding role of children and youth in sustainable development


  • Strengthening role of youth for sustainable economic and social development
  • Involving children in environment issues
  • Giving young people a greater voice on sustainable development issues
  • Expanding role of children in sustainable development

Implementation

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends advancing the role of youth and actively involving them in the protection of the environment and the promotion of economic and social development. Agenda 21 also recommends that UNICEF, UNESCO, UNDP and non-governmental organizations should develop support programmes to involve young people and children in environment and development issues, such as children's and youth hearings and building on decisions of the World Summit for Children.

UNESCO's programme includes the following: fostering the participation of young people in development projects and activities, as well as their contribution to international understanding, peace, human rights and democracy.

Narrower

  1. Training youth for employment in sustainable development
  2. Supporting International Youth Year
  3. Providing educational media for the young on sustainable development
  4. Involving youth in planning, implementing and assessing development projects
  5. Involving youth in environmental decision-making at all levels
  6. Involving school children in studies on environmental health and conservation
  7. Informing governments of young people's proposals
  8. Including youth representatives in delegations to international meetings
  9. Including youth in task forces on environmental education
  10. Improving coordination of international programmes for youth
  11. Giving children and young people a greater voice on sustainable development issues
  12. Developing responsible youth action
  13. Consulting youth groups on sustainable development programmes
  14. Considering proposals of youth groups in sustainable development policymaking

Facilitated by

  1. Using school children as community focal points for environmental information
  2. Reorienting education towards sustainable development
  3. Ratifying convention on the rights of the child
  4. Providing environmental education in schools
  5. Protecting children's rights
  6. Increasing participation of children in integrated community management of resources
  7. Incorporating children's concerns in sustainable development policies and strategies
  8. Improving primary environmental care programmes for children
  9. Improving cooperation on sustainable development programmes for and by children
  10. Implementing health, nutrition, education and poverty alleviation programmes for children
  11. Giving urban children practical ecological experience
  12. Expanding educational opportunities for all children
  13. Ensuring competent youth
  14. Delegating sustainable development to appropriate level


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