Localisation
How can we design our programmes to better include young people at the local level?
Youth empowerment
The With and for Youth network
The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and eight Danish civil society actors have committed to working purposefully with the youth agenda. The network advocates for greater support for young people and their meaningful participation in the decision-making processes, developments and policies that concern them.
South sudanese youths running through the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. Photo by Peter Hermann-Kamph.
Main themes
The WFY network works to improve their engagement with youth within three main areas
Representation
How does a focus on diversity and representation improve our engagement with youth?
Digitalisation
What benefits and challenges does a more digital world entail for young people?
Zainab, a young woman from Mosul, finally realising her dream to become a radio presenter after ISIL left the city. Photo by Harald Mundt.
A joint pledge
This project is based on a joint pledge, initiated by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where several Danish civil society actors (including Save the Children, the Red Cross, the Red Cross Youth, Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke, Oxfam Ibis, PlanBørnefonden, DFUNK and DRC/Danish Refugee Council) have committed themselves to working purposefully with the youth agenda. This was agreed on at the first Global Refugee Forum (GRF), which took place in December 2019. The main vision behind this pledge is to work for inclusion, empowerment and sustainable living circumstances, both for young refugees and for young people in developing countries, which host 86% of the world's refugees and displaced people.
16 year-old Mary who fled to the Kalobeyei refugee camp from South Sudan in 2017 together with her three siblings. Photo by Abdiwahid Abdikadir.
Towards the next Global Refugee Forum
The WFY network is collaborating through a series of workshop and events leading up to the 2023 Global Refugee Forum. The WFY network will host a side-event, that seeks to strengthen the meaningful participation of youth at the GRF.Â
The network
The WFY network consists of 8 leading danish NGO's and danish branches of international NGO's
Red Cross
Red Cross Youth
DFUNK
Oxfam
Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke - Action Aid
Save the Children
Planboernefonden
Danish Refugee Council
Partners
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
