EDD2013 session - Young voices for inclusive governance - Implications for the Post-2015 Framework

The following session, on the agenda of the upcoming EDD2013, will cover  issues of interest for this group. For questions, the focal points are at your availability. Further practical information can be found on the EDD2013 website.

Young voices for inclusive governance - Implications for the Post-2015 Framework

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Poverty, inequality, exclusion and hum an rights violations are not accidents of fate. They are the results of specific power relations and policy decisions which are discriminatory and unjust and which create obstacles to people – especially for children and young people - participating fully in society and in the economy. Despite making up over half the world’s population, children and youth face the out-dated Victorian motto ‘be seen and not heard’.

In one consultation of 346 young people from 12 countries, governance was the number one issue to be addressed by the post- 2015 framework.

Governance relates to how power and authority are exercised in the management of national and global public affairs and resources. ‘Inclusive governance’ must be human rights-based, participatory, transparent, equitable, accountable and must guarantee access to justice, respect the rule of law and fight against corruption. Let children and youth be a part of the process!

Organised by European Youth Forum, Plan International, Save the Children, SOS Children's Villages International, UNICEF, World Vision International

alexandra_newlands@wvi.org, Raffaela.Dattler@plan-international.org