Securing funding for international non governmental youth organisations

With time running out to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, HLPF 2026 signalled a shift from ambition to action. As progress remains severely off track amid rising global challenges, countries reaffirmed the 2030 Agenda as the roadmap for sustainable development and committed to accelerating collective action.

Navigating politics is not easy. That is where youth organisations step in, turning individual ideas into collective power. Our recent trip to Cork for the National Youth Council of Ireland’s (NYCI), first EU Youth Dialogue (EUYD) consultation, showed us exactly why this role is so essential.

True North has one of the most important missions for their European Youth Capital year, to make the region better for young people to live, work and create in the Norwegian Arctic. That’s why the Youth Capital team keeps questioning, what makes young people stay, come back and leave?