Push education to top of youth priorities for post-2015 agenda!
On 18 February, the President of the UN General Assembly, John William Ashe, launched a Global Partnership on Youth in the Post-2015 Development Agenda, facilitated by the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, Ahmad Alhendawi. This will highlight youth priorities and give young people a chance to voice their own visions for the post-2015 agenda. Through an inclusive platform, young people will formulate concrete ideas that can be proposed for the inter-governmental deliberations.
As a first step, a crowdsourcing platform has recently been launched. This targets young people and will consolidate the outcomes of national, regional, global and online consultations into tangible proposals for the post-2015 development framework.
The exercise will incorporate ideas from youth-led organisations and networks, building on the framework of the five top priorities that have emerged for young voters of the MyWorld2015 survey: Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship, Health, Good Governance, and Peace and Stability.
Education a priority
“Over one million of the 1.5 million youth voters in the My World Survey chose education as their top priority,” said EI General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen. “Over the last 18 months, a number of consultations and meetings on education have taken place, leading to a consensus that education must be a top priority in the next development agenda.”
Through the EI Unite for Quality Education campaign, EI and its affiliates also advocate for a post-2015 education goal that guarantees that all children have equitable access to education and that all children are learning with quality teachers, in quality teaching and learning environments and using quality teaching and learning tools.
EI invites affiliates and concerned citizens to join the global conversation and send ideas, comments and votes by 25 April! EI also encourages them to share the platform with partners and youth networks.
Further information can be found here
These discussions will result in an outcome document, “Youth Voices”, containing the consolidated proposals that the Partnership will advocate for in the post-2015 discussions.
