Policy brief for Global Platform for DRR 2017
This policy brief was developed by the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth (UN MGCY) in the lead up to the 7th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, and has also fed into discussion during the High Level Political Forum year 2017. In this policy brief, UN MGCY lays out its progress, emerging trends, challenges and way forward in key areas of the Sendai Framework implementation.
The UN MCGY is the official UN General Assembly mandated space for the engagement of children and youth in a number of intergovernmental and allied processes at the UN. The group has been a key player in global policy formulation since its inception in 1992, as part of Agenda 21. From its original home in the sustainable development processes, the UN MGCY has expanded its work into 16 policy processes, including Follow Up and Review, and has over 6000 registered youth entities (youth-led and youth/child-serving) in over 170 countries and territories. Some of these organisations predate the UN, and some were newly established after the adoption of the SDGs. Depending on how one counts, the collective outreach touches millions of young people. To facilitate this participation, the institutional structure of the UN MGCY encompases close to 300 elected and peer selected portfolios.
The Global Platform marked the first opportunity for the international community to review global progress in the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. It is the main forum at the global level for strategic advice, coordination, partnership development and the review of progress in the implementation of international instruments on disaster risk reduction.