Support the establishment of a standing United Nations Youth townhall and an Integrated programme from the United Nations system to facilitate greater diversity, representativeness and preparedness in youth participation.

 The United Nations system has a critical role to play in supporting young people to be adequately prepared to participate in decision-making processes at all levels. The United Nations system can also help youth organizations and mechanisms to ensure that young people participating in decision-making processes represent the views and diversity of young people across the world.

 This calls for a broadening of existing youth participation arrangements as well as greater synergies across different youth organizations and platforms. It also calls for a much greater leveraging of digital technologies, strengthened communications and a significant boost in the support provided to participating youth and youth organizations. 

The United Nations Secretary-General propose, therefore, that Member States: 

 a) Support the establishment of a standing United Nations Youth Townhall, convened by the Assistant Secretary-General for Youth Affairs, to provide the world’s young people with a dedicated space to better prepare for participation in decision-making mechanisms of the United Nations and to boost the diversity of youth voices informing the work of the United Nations; 

 b) Support the development of an integrated programme of work by the United Nations system to facilitate more meaningful youth participation at all levels – ranging from capacity development and training to systematic sharing of tools and information