YOUTH-GPS IN A NUTSHELL:
• UNDP’s first global programmatic offer on youth
empowerment.
• Aligned with UNDP Strategic Plan 2014-2017, UNDP Youth Strategy
2014-2017 (OPG, 2014), Youth-SWAP (CEB, 2013).
• Ambitious, agile and innovative response to youth needs and their
requests to be meaningfully included in development and decisionmaking at all levels.
• USD 35 million expected budget, for 2016-2020.
• ProDoc is the result of broad consultations with relevant BPPS
thematic teams, Regional bureaux/Regional hubs, Global Policy Centres,
BMS/JPO Service Center, youth organisations, Inter-agency Network on
Youth Development (IANYD) entities, as well as possible donors/partners.
A SENSE OF URGENCY:
• 1.8 billion young people worldwide; almost 50% of the world population
under 30; about 9 out of 10 people between the ages of 10 and 24 live in less
developed countries.
• Pressing development challenges, including interlocked forms of
discrimination.
• Urgent necessity to both address special needs of young women and
young men and recognize their positive contribution in shaping and
implementing development and peace agendas.
• Most recent global agreements and discussions calling for greater
investment in youth: 2030 Agenda, FfD, Peacebuilding Architecture Review,
CoP21, Sendai, Beijing+15, WHS, UN SCR 2250.
UNDP’S RATIONALE & COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE:
• A double rationale:
 A human rights imperative;
 A smart investment in sustainable development and peace.
• UNDP’s leading role:
 Mandate;
 Rich experience and unique positioning;
 Operational capability.
• Why UNDP needs a youth global programme:
 Multi-level and multi-dimensional;
 Global advocacy and policy and programming support, structured
dialogue with partners, inter-agency positioning;
 Bridge gaps/Find synergies at country and regional levels;
 Need for better reporting of results and upstream and
downstream cascade of knowledge and experience.
YOUTH-GPS THEORY OF CHANGE
• Basic assumption: Operating in an enabling environment and with
enhanced capacities and support, empowered young women and
young men are able to take advantage of opportunities for their
own development and can act effectively as citizens, leaders,
innovators, agents of change, therefore contributing to overall
sustainable development and peace.
• Youth empowerment is both a means and an end. It can be fostered
when at least four conditions are in place:
 Legislative and policy environments are enabling;
 Young people and youth organisations have the capacities to
effectively participate and institutions respond to youth needs;
 Solid and inclusive partnerships and spaces foster youth
engagement and networking;
 Young women’s systematic inclusion and empowerment.
YOUTH-GPS APPROACH:
• A multi-dimensional response:
 Civic engagement and political participation;
 Economic empowerment;
 Peacebuilding and resilience-building;
 Youth as partners in the 2030 Agenda.
• A multi-level response:
 Country level;
 Regional level;
 Global level;
 Gender equality dimension.
• Please see diagrams on the next slides: theory of change and
operationalisation of Youth-GPS.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE
More inclusive, participatory and innovative societies
EXPECTED IMPACT
YOUNG PEOPLE ACTIVE CITIZENS, ECONOMIC AGENTS,
INNOVATORS AND LEADERS
Tailored to contexts
MULTI-LEVEL RESPONSE
Country
Regional
Global
Gender Equality
Enabling environment
for youth
empowerment
established at all
levels
Capacities of young
people and their
organizations, policymakers and institutions
to promote youth
empowerment
Youth
GPS
Young women
empowered at all
levels
MULTI-DIMENSIONAL RESPONSE
Civic and political participation
Economic empowerment
Peace and resilience-building
2030 Agenda
NEED FOR A COMPREHENSIVE RESPONSE
INTERLINKED DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES FOR YOUTH
Youth excluded from governance processes and institutions | Lack of access to public services such
as health | Lack of participation in development | Unemployment and lack of decent jobs | Affected
by fragility and violence | Untapped force for peace | Marginalized youth facing interlocking
discrimination | Migration and Refugee crises | Climate change | lack of data and evidence
|Inadequate/under-implemented/under-funded public policies for youth
New normative frameworks
Solid partnerships and
networks for youth
empowerment
2030 Agenda, AAAA, COP 21, Sendai, SCR 2250, SCR 2242
plus WHS and other ongoing processes.
Youth—including the most marginalized--are
empowered to be positive agents of change
LEVELS OF
INTERVENTION
TYPES OF
SUPPORT
• Technical support
• Seed funding
1
COUNTRY
2
REGIONAL
3
GLOBAL
4
GENDER
• Advocacy and
Research
• Capacity-building
• Regional platforms
• Regional Programming
• Cutting-edge policy
and programming
support
• Capacity-building
• Inter-agency and
multi-stakeholder
partnerships
• Knowledge sharing
platforms
• Research and data
• Advocacy and
awareness raising
• Stand-alone initiatives
• Gender
mainstreaming
EXPECTED
RESULTS
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT ENHANCED
AT THE COUNTRY LEVEL
• Innovative projects piloted in all focus / emerging
areas
• Successful projects scaled-up in all focus / emerging
areas
REGIONAL CAPACITIES ON YOUTH
EMPOWERMENT STRENGTHENED
Africa, Arab States, Asia Pacific, ECIS and LAC
• Enhanced regional programming on youth
• Cross-country knowledge and networks
• Regional priorities on youth advanced
STRATEGIC GLOBAL POLICY AND
ADVOCACY FOR YOUTH
EMPOWERMENT STRENGTHENED
• Tools and guidance on youth
• Youth footprint on global normative and policy
frameworks
• Global knowledge sharing platforms
• Improved monitoring and reporting on youth
• Effective multi-stakeholder partnerships on youth
• Policy focus on youth in 2030 Agenda and all
thematic areas of work of the youth strategy
YOUNG WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT
ENHANCED AT ALL LEVELS
• Synergies promoted between Women, Peace and
Security and Youth, Peace and Security Agenda
• Young women’s participation in public life and
economic empowerment promoted
• Promote gender mainstreaming in youth agenda and
youth mainstreaming in gender equality agenda
HIGH LEVEL
CHANGE
CAPACITIES
of young people
and their
organizations,
policy-makers and
institutions to
promote youth
empowerment
ENABLING
ENVIRONMENTS
for youth
empowerment
established at all
levels
PARTNERSHIPS
AND NETWORKS
for youth
strengthened
YOUTH EMPOWERED
as citizens, economic
agents, innovators,
leaders and partners for
development and peace
YOUNG WOMEN
empowered at all
levels
GLOBAL-LEVEL ACCOUNTABILITY AND COORDINATION WITH AN UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM CASCADE OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
YOUTH-GPS – RESULTS AND PARTNERSHIPS (1/2):
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Four outputs: country, regional, global, and gender equality.
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Types of support:
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policy and programming/technical support ;
financial support;
knowledge generation and exchange;
advocacy,
research and data;
capacity-building;
support to inclusive partnerships, coalitions and networks;
youth and gender mainstreaming.
Indicative activities.
YOUTH-GPS – RESULTS AND PARTNERSHIPS (2/2):
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Expected budget: total USD 35 million:
 Output 1 (Country): USD 18.3 million (52.3%)
 Output 2 (Regional): USD 4 million (11.4%)
 Output 3 (Global): USD 7 million (20%)
 Output 4 (Gender Equality, all levels): USD 5.5 million (15.7%)
 Evaluation: USD 200K (0.6%).
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Internal and external partnerships. Stakeholder engagement. Potential
for South-South and Triangular Co-operation.
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Knowledge & Sustainability/Scaling up.
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Key risks: funding, political, strategic, operational and social.
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Cost efficiency and effectiveness, project management.
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Strong focus on results - Monitoring & Evaluation.
YOUTH-GPS GOV. & MGMT ARRANGEMENTS:
NEXT STEPS:
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Finalize the Youth-GPS document & launch. Annual WP. Communications plan.
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Launch UNDP-hosted multi-stakeholder ‘Youth4Peace’ portal, in June 2016.
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Develop guidance notes on youth in 2030 Agenda; youth mainstreaming in UNDAFs; support to the
implementation of UNSCR 2250; consult on internal accountability mechanisms; case studies on
lessons from support to youth-led solutions for PB & PVE.
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Lead UN SCR 2250 inter-agency task forces. Support development of solid COs/UNCTs proposals
for the PBF Youth Initiative.
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Co-lead with UNDESA the first global UN survey on youth with all UNCTs, by July 2016.
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Focus on partnership roadmap and fundraising-related activities. MoU with Search for Common
Ground; Partnership on Youth and 2030 Agenda with WFUNA, etc. Develop new funding proposals.
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Finalise the new UNDP Emerging Leaders Initiative (with JPO Centre).
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Upcoming events: Panel at the WB; Meeting on youth and SDGs with philanthropy; High-Level
Political Forum (Youth Governance and Accountability Task Force; “Early starters” publication); Side
events during GA. Possible CoP/Dialogue on youth in Q4.
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Upcoming regional activities: Technical workshops in the Pacific and in Latin America on inclusive
youth policies (Summer 2016). Workshops/consultations on UN SCR 2250?
THANK YOU!
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