Policies and Programmes Involving Youth

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1998.

What other versions does this mandate have?

18 versions · 1990–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/180

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/180	Policies and programmes involving youth	4,841	80%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/179	Policies and programmes involving youth	4,291	20%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/137	Policies and programmes involving youth	5,792	50%Compare
2020	A/RES/74/121	Policies and programmes involving youth	4,376	74%Compare
2018	A/RES/72/146	Policies and programmes involving youth	3,376	41%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

8 reports · 2005–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2025	A/80/375	Policies and programmes involving youth report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/179
2023	A/78/189	Policies and programmes involving youth report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/137
2021	A/76/210	Policies and programmes involving youth report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/74/121
2019	A/74/175	Policies and programmes involving youth report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/72/146
2017	A/72/190	Youth development links to sustainable development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/70/127

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond;³

³A/52/60-E/1997/6.

Calls upon all Member States to undertake all possible efforts to implement the World Programme of Action;

Stresses again the importance of the active and direct participation of youth and youth organizations at the local, national, regional and international levels in promoting and implementing the World Programme of Action and in evaluating the progress achieved and the obstacles encountered in its implementation and of the need to support the activities of youth mechanisms that have been set up by youth and youth organizations;

Welcomes the initiative of the Government of Portugal to host the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth, to be held at Lisbon from 8 to 12 August 1998, and takes note with appreciation of the ongoing collaboration between the Government of Portugal and the United Nations, including its agencies, funds and programmes, in that regard;

Stresses the need to involve youth and youth organizations in all stages of preparation for the World Conference, at the local, national, regional and international levels, and welcomes initiatives taken in that respect;

Acknowledges the activities undertaken at the regional level in preparation for the World Conference;

Recommends that the results of the second session of the World Youth Forum of the United Nations system be duly taken into account at the World Conference;

Notes with interest that the outcome of the third session of the World Youth Forum will be presented at the World Conference;

Reiterates the call made in the World Programme of Action to Member States to consider including youth representatives in their delegations to the General Assembly and other relevant United Nations meetings, thus broadening the channels of communication and enhancing the discussion of youth-related issues, and requests the Secretary-General to convey this invitation to Member States;

Requests the Secretary-General to make the reports of the third session of the World Youth Forum and of the World Conference available to all Member States;

Also requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session on the implementation of the present resolution and, in particular, on progress made in the implementation of the World Programme of Action.

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