This is the World Health Organization (WHO) global consensus statement on meaningful adolescent and youth engagement.
This Statement seeks to galvanize local and global health and development communities around a common understanding of how we can ensure that young people are meaningfully engaged and participate in the development and implementation of all policies, programs, and processes that affect them. Meaningful engagement of young people is central to our common vision of achieving the outcomes and targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), FP2020 goals, and the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health among other internationally agreed-upon targets for eliminating poverty and promoting health, rights, and wellbeing.