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Mission

UNESCO has always placed a great importance on youth in its programmes. Since its creation, and its mandated mission regarding education, UNESCO was the first agency of the United Nations System to define and develop specific programmes for young people.

After the second World War, UNESCO (at the time only with 20 Member States) helped organize international volunteer youth work camps to aid in the reconstruction of Europe. Almost fifty years later in November 1996, 186 Member States at the 29th Session of the UNESCO General Conference reaffirmed and stressed their unanimous commitment to youth as a priority for the whole Organization.

The Section for Youth stimulates, encourages, mobilises and assists the whole of UNESCO so that youth is treated as a PRIORITY throughout the Organization.


The objective of UNESCO is to help empower young people, reaching out to them, responding to their expectations and ideas, fostering useful, long-lasting skills and ensuring their full potential and participation in society as equal and valuable partners. 

Young people are a heterogeneous group in constant flux and evolution, with certain groups more at risk and more vulnerable than others.

The Section for Youth provides young people with information, technical help, advice, intellectual contributions, etc... through four functions:

  • Increased presence and participation of young women and men in UNESCO's bodies, events and activities and in partner organizations, to open up opportunities for all to listen to and engage in dialogue with them
    -the governance function


  • Partnerships between UNESCO and young people, to solicit and
    integrate their views and priorities and collaborate with them in
    setting up projects and programmes in the areas of the Organization's competence -the programming function


  • Assistance to Member States of the Organization in mainstreaming youth concerns and issues into their policies and programmes in order to create spaces
    and opportunities for empowering young
    people and giving recognition, visibility and credibility to their contributions - the policy development function


  • Act as a clearing house of information concerning youth and sustain campaigns; prepare and disseminate publications and information material, accessible also through our dedicated website - the advocacy function

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UNESCO AND YOUTH
  • Strategy

  • Section for Youth

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  • Mission

  • Programme & Budget

  • Who´s who?
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  • UNESCO Youth Forum

  • Regional Youth Forums


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    RESOURCES
  • General Youth websites
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