UNICEF Young People Advisory Board
Empowering children and young people.
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About Young People Advisory Board (YPAB)
The Young People Advisory Board (YPAB) is an incredibly important resource for UNICEF Thailand, providing valuable insight into the planning, implementation, and monitoring of UNICEF's priority initiatives. It is essential that the voices of young people are heard and considered, especially those of the most vulnerable and marginalized. The YPAB offers advice on topics such as health and wellbeing, education and school to work/higher education transition, employability, violence against children, youth participation, and climate change.
The YPAB creates opportunities for young people to build confidence and skills, express their views, connect, and exchange with one another. This allows young people to influence UNICEF Thailand's work, making UNICEF more participatory, relevant, and effective for young people in Thailand.
How will the Young People Advisory Board Work?
The YPAB will be comprised of 40 young people from across Thailand, aged between 10-23 years old, with practical experience on their topic of interest.
YPAB members commit to being actively involved for one year and participate in activities in the following areas:
- UNICEF Country Programme: Informing and influencing the work of UNICEF in Thailand, especially the programme design, monitoring and evaluation of the next country programme.
- Advocacy: YPAB members work with UNICEF to seek opportunities to share and amplify the voice of young people and participate in UNICEF 's advocacy initiatives at local, national, regional and global levels. YPAB also supports the development of content and campaign materials targeted at young people and contributes to the dissemination of key messages through digital platforms.
- Partnerships: YPAB members help identify dynamic, like-minded youth groups, organisations and networks that could join UNICEF 's cause and support the implementation of UNICEF 's programmes for children.
- Direct engagement with young people: YPAB members share ideas with other young people to identify emerging issues in young people's lives through focus group discussions, interviews, polls and more.
Members will be divided into six focus areas based on their issue of interest:
- Health and Wellbeing
- Education and school to work/high education transition
- Employability
- Violence against children
- Youth participation
- Environment/Climate Change
The YPAB and UNICEF Thailand will engage in regular communication via:
- Quarterly meetings;
- Ad-hoc meetings, by agreement between YPAB and UNICEF Thailand;
- Virtual communication through e-mails, LINE or other social media groups.