Deadline 14 Feb - Funded Youth Spots for UN Water Conference - Apply Now!

We are pleased to announced applications for upto 10 fully-funded spots for youth participation at the UN Water Conference 2023. Please apply using the form here, by the deadline of 14th February 2023, 12 noon UTC. 

Background
The UN Water Conference 2023 will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York (USA) from 22-24 March 2023, co-hosted by the Governments of Tajikistan and the Netherlands. The Conference will focus on the “Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Decade for Action, ‘Water for Sustainable Development’, 2018–2028”.

The Conference will take a multi-sectoral approach - putting a spotlight on the sustainable development and integrated management of water resources for the achievement of social, economic and environmental objectives, the implementation and promotion of related programmes and projects, as well as on how to best strengthen cooperation and partnerships at all levels. It will feature an opening and closing ceremony, six plenary meetings and five multi-stakeholder interactive dialogues. It will also feature a number of high-level special events and side events organized by Member States, the UN system and other stakeholders. Read more about the Conference on: https://sdgs.un.org/conferences/water2023/about

Major Group for Children and Youth (MGCY) SDG6 Working Group (coordinated by Water Youth Network) is facilitating youth participation in the process, among which, the constituency initiated a universal focus group for the conference (join by signing up here), and is currently coordinating the preparations of Youth Event for Water Conference; More details about coordination of youth interventions/policy paper and pre-conference capacity building will be shared soon. 

Funded Spots for Youth Participation
UN DESA (which serves as the secretariat for the Water Conference) has reached out to MGCY for nomination of upto 10 youth for funded participation at the Conference. We have been asked to nominate upto 13-15 people in the order of priority and the UN will then make final decision of the list of 10 youth to be funded from the MGCY nominees. The funding will include return air ticket and DSA (which will cover costs for accommodation, food, local transport, etc.) and is targeted toward enhancing participation of youth from the global south in the process. 

Regarding visa
Please note that MGCY team will work with UN and the US Department of State (DoS) to help expedite the visa of the selected youth, noting that it is upto the Embassy in each country to issue a final decision on the visa. 

We have a short deadline to get back to DESA with the details of youth nominees. Therefore, we invite interested youth to please fill out the brief application form below, which also contains details on the selection process.  

Link to application form: https://forms.gle/8W4XSESJABapDsDv7
Deadline: Tuesday 14th Feb, 12 noon UTC  

In case you have any questions or feedback, please be welcome to write to us on: policy@unmgcy.org and sdg6gfp@unmgcy.org