Informal Youth Summit of the Future and Local…

The ECOSOC Youth Forum 2024 side event entitled "Informal Youth Summit of the Future and Local Pacts for the Future" is being organized by the UN ECOSOC accredited civil society organization IAAI GloCha in collaboration with the International Youth Conference (IYC), GloCha Global Challenges Foundation New York Inc., UN Habitat - Youth Programme, UN Environment - Early Warning and Data Analytics Branch and AFS Intercultural Programs.  This event aims to discuss pathways towards youth-led transformative change and effective youth participation in the UN system in the context of preparations for the UN Summit of the future.  A key agenda item of the event are the exploration of the feasibility and the collaborative planning of organizational details of an "informal Youth Summit of the Future", a proposal that has been developed by members of the Internation Youth Conference (IYC). The proposed informal Youth Summit of the Future will feature non-state actors' led programs and events focused on youth capacity building, strategy development, edutainment and action planning, envisioning transformative global governance innovation. The informal Youth Summit of the Future programs will be supported by the side event organizers, and enabled by solutions, that have been developed by the Global Challenges Action Empowerment partnership GloCha (like Local Pacts for the Future, Challenges Mapping, GloCha Streaming TV, DigitalArt4Climate, GloCha Festival, ..) which help leveraging youth creativity and knowledge for global and local action towards the SDGs.