Minimum Standards for European Youth Delegate Programmes to the United Nations
The creation, development and expansion of youth delegate programmes to the United Nations (UN) has been a growing topic of interest in the European region. These programmes provide an opportunity to include youth voices in multilateral decision-making fora, which in turn contributes to the development of more effective and inclusive policies, the identification of new solutions to global challenges, or building greater trust in public institutions.
This growing interest presents an opportunity to define which criteria need to be in place to ensure the successful implementation of these programmes across Europe. This is of key importance, as failure to implement these programmes in a way that ensures quality could result in causing more harm than good, potentially impairing the purpose of meaningfully including youth representatives in global decision-making fora.
This publication provides a list of five minimum standards for European youth delegate programmes to the UN. These criteria aim to create a regional framework defining what requirements are to be met to ensure quality programmes across Europe.
These standards can be used as a tool to both develop new programmes, as well as evaluate existing ones. Additionally, they can be used as a source of inspiration for the development and evaluation of programmes in other regions.
