Consultations with Member States and Relevant Stakeholders.

 The proposals put forth in the present policy brief draw on: 

 a) The global listening exercise conducted as part of the commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, in which 1.5 million young people from all countries participated in surveys and dialogues;

b) The first MY World survey,37 in which al most 10 million young people from 194 countries voted; 

 c) The MY World 2030 survey,38 in which almost 600,000 young people voted; 

 d) The series of discussions with 600 youth through the Next Generation Fellows programme39 of the United Nations Foun dation and its outcome report entitled Our Future Agenda: A Vision and Plan for Next and Future Generations,40 which served as a formal contribution to shaping of the report of the Secretary-General entitled “Our Common Agenda”; e) The recommendations made by youth to the Human Rights Council,41 the Economic and Social Council youth forum and the Security Council open debates; 

 f) A focused discussion with Member States on 30 August 2022 on identifying ways and means for more meaningful engagement of youth in the work of the General As sembly,42 convened by the President of the seventy-sixth session of the General Assembly; 

 g) Informal dialogues with youth delegates on 4 October 2022 and 6 February 2023,43 con vened by the President of the seventy-sev enth session of the General Assembly; 

 h) Thematic consultations with Member States on the topic of meaningful youth engagement were held through focused regional group consultations throughout February and March 2023. 

 On 17 February 2023, the Office of the Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth gave a briefing to young people on progress towards the implementation of Our Common Agenda and the establishment of the United Nations Youth Office, at which young people further voiced their expectations vis-à-vis mean ingful youth engagement in United Nations decision-making processes. The present policy brief was written in consultation with over a dozen United Nations entities, all actively engaged in facilitating youth engagement across various pillars of the work of the United Nations. A synthesis of the youth views gathered through the processes listed in the present annex, as well as commitments to meaningful youth engage ment in intergovernmental agreed documents, is available at www.un.org/en/common-agenda/ further-information