The Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Foundation, MiSK Foundation, signed on Thursday an agreement to become a strategic pioneering partner for the United Nations’ youth work.
This partnership is the first international agreement of its kind to support youth projects around the world by strengthening the UN’s first-ever Strategy on Youth launched on the eve of the General Assembly.
“This major contribution towards the UN Secretariat’s work on youth will be used to operationalize the new UN Strategy on Youth with a focus on advancing our collective efforts to support youth mobilization for the 2030 Agenda worldwide. It comes at a crucial time, immediately after the public launch of the UN’s Youth Strategy, which shows the commitment and dedication of the Misk Foundation to supporting youth development globally,” the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth Jayathma Wickramanayake said.
According to the agreement, MiSk is the first to promote for engaging youth and enhancing their participation in achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by empowering 50 million young men and women by 2030.
The agreement aims to implement many qualitative initiatives and programs to serve Saudi and world youth, including the launch of a portal to be a center of knowledge on the goals of sustainable development. This portal will become an important platform to motivate young people and introduce them to projects and initiatives.
The strategy provides the space for mobilizing and unifying the efforts of United Nations member states, the private sector, and civil societies to translate this momentum into political action and real-time investments with youth involvement.
It will serve as an umbrella for the work of the United Nations with and for young people. Among its first actions is the launch of the “Unlimited Generation Partnership” initiated by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to bring together United Nations agencies, the private sector, civil society and young people.
