This Youth Strategy acts as an umbrella framework to guide the entire UN as it steps up its work with and for young people across its three pillars – peace and security, human rights, and sustainable development – in all contexts. It seeks to significantly strengthen the UN’s capacity to engage young people and benefit from their views, insights and ideas. It seeks to ensure the UN’s work on youth issues is pursued in a coordinated, coherent and holistic manner.

The Youth2030 Progress Report 2021 is the first progress report of the United Nations' system-wide Youth Strategy, Youth2030. The report provides insights on the status of implementation of Youth2030 across the United Nations (UN) system. It outlines the global governance and coordination structures that have been established to ensure coherent system-wide action, highlights how the UN is responding to the needs of youth in the COVID crisis and how it is working with Governments and young people to realize the SDGs. Reflections of the ambitious UN reform process on youth programming in UN Country Teams (UNCTs) are also highlighted.

The UN Snapshot Series presents data and insights on the work of UN entities and the UN Country Teams (UNCTs) on the implementation of Youth2030, the UN system-wide Youth Strategy, based on their first reporting cycle in 2020. The Snapshots are organized in two series: (a) the UN entity Snapshot Series on 33 UN entities; and (b) the UNCT Snapshot Series on the 130 UNCTs. The UNCT Snapshot Series also includes five Regional Snapshots and one Global Snapshot: the Regional Snapshots aggregates the performance of the UNCTs across the 20 key performance indicators (KPIs) of Youth2030 across five regions, and the Global Snapshot aggregates their performance across the same KPIs worldwide.