https://www.un.org/youthaffairs/en/youthlead-dialogues
Under the banner of the #YouthLead Festival, young people and partners are coming together in September 2025 to reflect on progress made and recommit to bold action for youth rights, participation, and empowerment.
In the lead-up to this historic moment, youth-led and/or youth-focused conversations are taking place in the form of #YouthLead Dialogues.
These dialogues are an opportunity to capture diverse ideas and lived experiences, explore youth priorities and solutions, and feed local voices into global spaces of decision-making.
Whether you are gathering in a classroom, coffee shop, community hall, boardroom, or online — your voice matters.
Themes to explore
Each dialogue is unique, and that is by design. However, we encourage participants to reflect on one or both of the themes guiding the High-Level Meeting on the 30th Anniversary of the World Programme for Youth (WPAY):
- Accelerating the implementation of the World Programme of Action for Youth (WPAY): What is working? What could be better? How can we move faster, together, with a forward-looking lens, ensuring no one is left behind?
- Making youth participation meaningful: How can we ensure that young people can fully, effectively, and meaningfully engage in policymaking and decision-making at national and global levels — for the benefit of both current and future generations?
