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Youth Philanthropy Forum on SDGs
Description/achievement of initiative

The Youth Philanthropy Forum on SDGs aims to build greater capacity and create a better environment for youth philanthropic organizations to support the implementation of the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs). It will connect youth philanthropy to the United Nations' SDGs to see how youth are making change towards these big goals. It will create an opportunity for the youth to learn and make connections with international leaders by building strong partnerships between youth philanthropic organizations, the United Nations, governments, civil society, and businesses

Implementation methodologies

1. Launching events at Regional levels and Country levels: The initiative will be launched at country levels with local partners, the United Nations, governments, civil society, and business. The first launching event will be on 8th July, 2016 at USA during the Youth Philanthropy Connect Conference at Anaheim. 2. Youth Philanthropy Forum on SDGs :The Youth Philanthropy Forum on SDGs will target all youth philanthropy initiatives by building strong partnerships between youth philanthropic organisations, the United Nations, governments, civil society, and business. Through multi-stakeholder partnerships at the country and global levels, the Forum will work to catalyze youth philanthropic engagement in developing innovative and transformative solutions to achieving the SDGs.The Forum will focus on building greater capacity and a better environment for youth philanthropic organisations at three levels: a. Development policy making b. Global, regional and country-level coordination among implementing partners c. Strategic points of entry to this work for individual foundations The forum will include workshop sessions. The workshop is divided into multiple segments to engage with the 17 areas of SDGs and the means of involvement in implementation, reporting and monitoring. 3. Data sharing and Social Media CampaignThrough this initiative, we shall contribute to a credible and accessible online data and knowledge portal on philanthropic giving related to the SDGs (Thus www.youthgiving.org and www.sdgfounders.org). Our data sharing will include case studies, photographs, infographics with commitment to the principles and actions in the Global Data charter. Our digital campaign which consists of the photo entries and content sharing on products relating to these goals will also seek to republish key influencers relating to the SDGs.

Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer

Capacity Building for youth to;1. Contribute to a credible and accessible online data and knowledge portal on philanthropic giving related to the SDGs (youthgiving.org and sdgfounders.org)2. Create new knowledge products on youth philanthropic contributions to sustainable development, including reports, case studies, mapping of youth foundations in countries, and videos.

Coordination mechanisms/governance structure

Through multi-stakeholder partnerships at the country and global levels and a free, widely available website, the Forum will work to catalyse youth philanthropic engagement in developing innovative and transformative solutions to achieving the SDGs.

Partner(s)

* Global Alliance for Development Foundation (GADeF) * World Initiatives for Grant making Support (WINGS) * African Grantmakers Network (AGN) * African Youth in Philanthropy Network (AYPN) * Foundation Centre * Youth Philanthropy Connect *United National Development Programme(UNDP),USA *Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, USA *Youth Philanthropy Connect(YPC),USA *World Initiatives for Grantmaker Support(WINGS), Brazil *The Graduate Union of The University of Melbourne Incorporated, Australia *Phinklife Institute, Canada * GrassRoots Hub
Progress reports
Goal 1
Goal 4
Goal 5
Goal 6
Goal 7
Goal 8
Goal 10
Goal 11
Goal 16
16.1 - Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere
16.6 - Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels
16.10 - Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements
16.a - Strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime
Goal 17
17.1 - Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
17.3 - Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources
17.4 - Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress
17.5 - Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries
17.6 - Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism
17.9 - Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the sustainable development goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation
17.10 - Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda
17.11 - Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020
17.12 - Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access
17.13 - Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence
17.14 - Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
17.15 - Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development

Multi-stakeholder partnerships
17.16 - Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
17.17 - Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships

Data, monitoring and accountability
2016/April
Develop country-level pilots for youth philanthropic collaboration with local partners in USA, Canada, Australia, Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Indonesia etc.
2016/August
Create new knowledge products on youth philanthropic contributions to sustainable development, including reports, case studies, mapping of youth foundations in countries, and videos.
2016/July
Contribute to a credible and accessible online data and knowledge portal on philanthropic giving related to the SDGs (youthgiving.org and sdgfounders.org)
2016/November
Create a platform for youth philanthropy to engage with the governmental and UN-led SDG processes and to participate in formative events and activities
Staff / Technical expertise
200
In-kind contribution
30000
Financing (in USD)
50,000 USD

Basic information
Time-frame: 01/2016 - 01/2030
Partners
* Global Alliance for Development Foundation (GADeF) * World Initiatives for Grant making Support (WINGS) * African Grantmakers Network (AGN) * African Youth in Philanthropy Network (AYPN) * Foundation Centre * Youth Philanthropy Connect *United National Development Programme(UNDP),USA *Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, USA *Youth Philanthropy Connect(YPC),USA *World Initiatives for Grantmaker Support(WINGS), Brazil *The Graduate Union of The University of Melbourne Incorporated, Australia *Phinklife Institute, Canada * GrassRoots Hub
Countries
Contact information
Emmanuel Marfo, GADeF Founding Executive Director and Convenor for the African Youth Philanthropy Network, emmarfogh@gmail.com
United Nations