Our impact model enables us to harness the strengths of the public and private sectors, and tap into the drive and ingenuity of young people for addressing problems that are too big for any one sector to solve on its own. This approach creates public-private-youth consortiums, bringing together partners with diverse capabilities, assets, and reach, all working towards a common goal: to achieve meaningful impact and transform outcomes for young people.
Climate Change, Pollution and Health | The Second GMWHO World Health Assembly
The Second GMWHO World Health Assembly, Deeply conscious that the effects of climate change are causing the most vulnerable groups and marginalized populations to suffer, jeopardizing the future of the world’s development and the lack of effective and inclusive health systems which urges governments to collaborate to navigate the complexities of issues that arise from the climate crisis.
Regional Youth Anti-Corruption Academy Program | New Alternative In Fighting Corruption
The Youth Cafe’s Anti-Corruption Academy is designed to provide educational services, to promote research, and to foster the practical implementation of Collective Youth Action initiatives. Through its flagship programme, the Youth Anti-Corruption Collective Action Certificate (YACCA), the Centre promotes the practical implementation of Collective Youth Action based on a tailored methodology and close guidance. The YACCA certificate is open for applicants to start activities in April 2025.
Y20 South Africa | Youth Building Bridges: Uniting For Solidarity, Championing Equality, Driving Sustainability
Under the South African G20 Presidency theme of "Solidarity, Equality, and Sustainability", the Y20 Summit will gather youth delegates from G20 nations, regional representatives, and additional invited nations. The Y20 Summit will focus on five priority themes aligned with South Africa's national deliverables and the African Union's Agenda 2063 as well as the United Nations 2030 Agenda, all reinforcing South Africa’s commitment to social and economic development and climate action. The South African Y20 Summit will present the communique on youth priorities, providing G20 leaders with direct insights into the aspirations, concerns, and recommendations of the continent's youth.
Facts And Figures | Fourth Finance For Development Conference
Through collective efforts to mobilize financing for sustainable development and realize an international financial architecture that serves the needs of all countries, the world can tackle poverty, inequality, hunger, education, the climate crisis, and all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Investing in sustainable development is not a sectoral endeavor; an investment in one area creates ripple effects throughout the entire economy, creating positive impacts at all levels
Backgrounder | Financing for #OurCommonFuture
Building on the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the commitments made in the Pact for the Future, adopted in 2015 and 2024 respectively, discussions will focus on two overarching goals aimed at charting a path towards a more sustainable future: delivering a large-scale impact-focused investment push, and reforming the international financial architecture.
Financing a Sustainable Future | Report of the International Commission Of Experts For The Fourth Conference On Financing for Development (FFD4)
Tax Cooperation and Combatting Illicit Capital Flows: the Commission proposes increasing the agreed global minimum tax rate from 15% to 25%, banning tax incentives for natural resource exploitation, and ensuring adequate taxation of very rich individuals, including through a minimum tax on the very wealthy. To combat illicit financial flows, the Commission proposes mandatory country-by-country reporting by MNEs, a publicly accessible global registry of beneficial ownership, and a UN protocol on illicit flows.
FFD4 Business Steering Committee Communiqué | Unlocking Private Finance And Investment For Sustainable Development
Our overarching objective is to scale up private investment for sustainable development in developing countries. To achieve this, we have identified five action areas critical to unlocking private capital at scale and channeling it toward SDG-aligned sectors, projects and initiatives where it is needed most. To be effective, these action areas will need to be complemented by broader efforts to set in place an enabling business environment, including an effective legal and regulatory framework and a favorable macroeconomic and trade setting.
Declaration From The Fourth International Conference On Finance For Development Civil Society Forum
The FfD4 is taking place at a time when the world is reeling with multiple crises: growing inequalities within and between countries, unsustainable debt burdens faced by Global South countries undermining the realization of human rights and the provision of public services, structural gender inequalities, decent work deficit, continued corporate tax avoidance and evasion and illicit financial flows, rise in conflicts and militarism, cuts in official development assistance (ODA) and failure to uphold longstanding commitments, shrinking civic space, the worsening triple planetary crisis, widespread hunger and malnutrition, growing fractures in the multilateral trade system, and rapidly declining international cooperation.
3 rd EU-AU Ministerial Meeting, 21 May 2025 Joint communique
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Member States of the European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU) concluded their 3rd Ministerial Meeting, taking stock of progress on the Joint Vision for 2030 for a renewed Partnership, adopted at the 6th EU-AU Summit in 2022. This Ministerial paves the way for the 7th AU-EU Summit, which will take place in Africa, in 2025, marking 25 years of the partnership since the Cairo Summit in 2000.