Tag: Youth

• Youth Leadership and Voice in Post 2015: UN Resolution 2250

  

  It is not new knowledge that half of the world’s population is made up of persons under the age of 35, the majority of whom are youth older than 15. As the expiration of the Millennium Development Goals near, the world will be responsible for achieving sustainable development within only fifteen years. In the absence…

  MCLD Team

  December 22, 2015

  Community-led development, Leadership, livelihoods, Meetings, sdgs, Youth

  Community Led Development, Empowerment, Local Governance, Post2015, United Nations, Youth

• Sustainable Development by 2030 Requires Community-led Development

  

  “For us, then, to reach our twin goals, three things have to happen—inclusive economic growth, investment in human beings, and insurance against the risk that people could fall back into poverty. Grow, invest, and insure: that’s our shorthand for it…We reject “trickle-down” notions that assume that any undifferentiated growth permeates and fortifies the soil and…

  MCLD Team

  October 22, 2015

  Community-led development, Gender, Governance, Human Rights, livelihoods, sdgs

  Gender Equality, Grassroots, integrated, Local Government, Youth