• International Youth Day 2015: Youth Civic Engagement, 12 August 2015

• 15 July is first-ever World Youth Skills Day

• Regional Training Workshop on "Evidence-based policies on Youth Development in the Caribbean" 2-4 June 2015, Barbados.

• High-Level Event to mark the 20th Anniversary of the World Programme of Action for Youth, New York - 29 May 2015

• 29 May 2015- Panel Discussion in UNHQ on Enhancing Youth Policy Implementation: Making Commitments Matter

• The Annual Meeting of the Inter-agency Network on Youth Development took place 24-25 March 2015

• 2015 - Commission for Social Development 53th session - Resolution on Policies and programmes involving youth (E/CN.5/2015/L.5)

• #YouthNow campaign in commemoration of the World Programme of Action for Youth

• ECOSOC Youth Forum, 2-3 February in UN Headquarters on how to maximize the engagement of young people in the transition from MDGs to SDGs.

• Visit the new Youth-SWAP website UN System-wide Action Plan on Youth

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Youth Flash August 2015

Focus: This issue of Youth Flash features the article “Encouraging Youth to Vote, and For the Right Reasons” written by Adrian Alfred, a youth advocate for youth empowerment and a Founding and Steering Committee member of the Guyana National Youth Council (GNYC), a non-governmental youth lead organization which is a network of youth and youth-led body committed to youth advocacy. The group has been involved in a number of campaigns targeting youth and aimed at getting their voices heard. He is especially proud of the group’s Vote Like a Boss campaign (VLaB) which was directed to the youth voter population primarily first time voters, through the use of social media and public service announcements and outreach across the various regions of Guyana. 

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