Lessons from good practices supporting progress towards SDG 4.

 

This year, the world celebrated the International Day of Education under the theme “Youth as co-creators of education”. The day shed light on young people’s contributions to ensuring the right to education, even in the most challenging contexts. Indeed, young people are not only learners, but active participants in shaping education and society, whose voices, perspectives and experiences are essential.

The UNESCO’s Meaningful youth engagement handbook: empowering schools to foster active participation and leadership, co-developed by youth from the SDG 4 Youth & Student Network and teachers from ASPnet underscores that meaningful youth engagement goes beyond participation in activities. It requires intentional spaces for youth voice, shared decision-making, and supportive environments in which young people can contribute to learning, dialogue and action in ways that are authentic and valued.

To support knowledge sharing and cross-country learning, the SDG 4 Knowledge Hub brings together good practices that document concrete actions contributing to progress towards SDG 4. The following thematic examples, recently published on the Knowledge Hub, illustrate how meaningful youth engagement is being fostered in practice. Discover the recently published good practices on the SDG 4 Knowledge Hub that illustrate how meaningful youth engagement is being fostered in practice.