The Youth Forum hosts regional youth platforms from across the world

From the 29th of October to the 1st of November, the European Youth Forum hosted in Brussels a meeting with the regional youth platforms from around the world to foster the relationships and develop common projects for the future.

Representatives from the Caribbean Regional Youth Council, the Latin American and Caribbean Youth Forum, the Pacific Youth Council, the Pan-African Youth Union, the Commonwealth Youth Council and of the Network of International Youth Organisations in Africa met with the Youth Forum representatives.

Over four days, the representatives discussed the contexts in which they work. They identified together several different institutional, youth-led and youth-focused spaces where the voice, presence and cooperation of regional youth platforms should be strengthened in the future.

The European Youth Forum looks forward to broadening and deepening this cooperation with all of the regional youth platforms*. We also hope to take discussions further in 2017 to build specific cooperation around effective and representative youth participation in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

As regional youth platforms, these organisations are the representatives of youth organisations, and through them, millions of young people across the respective regions. It is vital, therefore, that we work together to improve the situation of young people around the world, and to ensure that the decisions made are sustainable for future generations.

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* Participants from regional youth platforms in Asia were also invited, but were unfortunately unable to join.