Youth empowerment

The With and for Youth network

The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and eight Danish civil society actors have committed to working purposefully with the youth agenda. The network advocates for greater support for young people and their meaningful participation in the decision-making processes, developments and policies that concern them.

Main themes

The WFY network works to improve their engagement with youth within three main areas

Localisation

How can we design our programmes to better include young people at the local level?

Representation

How does a focus on diversity and representation improve our engagement with youth?

Digitalisation

What benefits and challenges does a more digital world entail for young people?

A joint pledge

This project is based on a joint pledge, initiated by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where several Danish civil society actors (including Save the Children, the Red Cross, the Red Cross Youth, Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke, Oxfam Ibis, PlanBørnefonden, DFUNK and DRC/Danish Refugee Council) have committed themselves to working purposefully with the youth agenda. This was agreed on at the first Global Refugee Forum (GRF), which took place in December 2019. The main vision behind this pledge is to work for inclusion, empowerment and sustainable living circumstances, both for young refugees and for young people in developing countries, which host 86% of the world's refugees and displaced people.

Towards the next Global Refugee Forum

The WFY network is collaborating through a series of workshop and events leading up to the 2023 Global Refugee Forum. The WFY network will host a side-event, that seeks to strengthen the meaningful participation of youth at the GRF.

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