We are excited to announce that 50 UN entities and 168 youth entities including The Youth Cafe have signed the UN IANYD statement on COVID 19 and Youth. UN MGCY played a role in helping to coordinate the process of writing this statement and is also a signatory. The United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Youth Development (UN IANYD) is committed to goals enshrined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the World Programme of Action for Youth, and the UN Youth Strategy.
To write this report, The Youth Café and Sussex Writes at the University of Sussex joined forces to address the challenges that young people are facing due to COVID-19. With financial support from Ford Foundation, the Lockdown Live series was an initiative planned to create awareness about the global situation of the world in the wake of COVID -19.
Youth are identifying the challenges and needs in their communities, and moving rapidly to address them to get ahead of the pandemic as it hits the continent. At The Youth Cafe, we’re seeing inspiring and hopeful examples in our network of more than 50,000 youth. Youth know what is most needed in their communities; they have the ability to adapt and respond quickly to an emerging crisis situation; and youth in The Youth Cafe’s network have the digital skills, gender equality, and facilitation knowledge necessary to rapidly intervene where their communities need it most.
