What is meaningful youth engagement?

 

Meaningful youth engagement refers to how youth should be involved in decision-making and policymaking processes. Over the years, govern ments, youth organizations and United Nations entities have developed a series of principles that, when implemented collectively, can help to ensure that youth engagement is more meaning ful and effective – from the perspective both of youth constituencies and of policymakers.1 When youth engagement strays from these prin ciples, it risks becoming tokenistic and can result in decision-making that is divorced from young people’s lived realities, expertise and solutions. As a result, trust and confidence in public insti tutions are eroded2 and policymaking is rendered less effective




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