CASE STUDY || GENEVA YOUTH CALL

​Supporting the Geneva Youth Call
co-founders and team
to launch the 1st World Youth Assembly ​in Geneva

GENEVA YOUTH CALL

Geneva Youth Call was co-founded by students from the Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva (UNIGE), prior to the COVID Pandemic.

It emerged from exploration of the problem that youth globally, ages 15 – 30 years old, do not have a guiding, evolving, themed framework which enables them to know what to advocate for, campaign for and take action on in their communities, so they are not able to share their voices in problem-solving.

Now, 3 years on from its inception, the team of young leaders will be running the 1st World Youth Assembly taking place 20th-22nd April 2022 to develop a Youth Charter to be shared with the UN in Geneva.

The Youth Charter - developed by youth, for youth – serves as a guiding, evolving themed framework enabling young people globally to know what to advocate for, campaign for and take action on, in their communities, ensuring that their voices heard and engaged in problem-solving.

WORKING TOGETHER

As part of finalising the details for the 1st World Youth Assembly, Geneva Youth Call commissioned Elaine France to provide last-mile support around the hackathon processes enabling youth participants, scientific and field experts to explore and generate solutions to be included in the Youth Charter around the theme of environment. 

THE APPROACH 

In consultation with the co-founders, we reviewed the purpose of the World Youth Assembly, to stock-take on its value proposition together.

From this baseline:
  • We reviewed the processes to be used in the workshop, to enable participants to validate problems, generate and share solutions suitable for the Youth Charter.
  • Trained the wider team of young leaders facilitating the event.
  • Co-designed final documents to be used by participants and experts. 

OUR GOALS  
  • Create a strong process framework to enable youth partcipants to explore and share their voices to problem-solve.
  • Capture additional problems and ideas downloaded by participants during the event to create a repository for further exploration.
  • Create an inclusive, collaborative event where every young person's voice can be heard.
  • Populate the Youth Charter with its first proposition to engage youth globally.
Discover how we can work together
​to empower youth to engage in problem-solving for the planet and share their voices in their communities

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