ADVOCACY

3 Pillars of Advocacy

To bring about effective and positive change in our society, our advocacy consists of three pillars:

Negotiate

We deliver the voices of the youth at domestic and international conferences hosted by the United Nations and its partner organisations.

Represent

We collect the voices of youths to make policy suggestions and deliver them to actors around the world.

Our recent policy proposal

Involve

We host events for participants to discuss and clarify their interests in the SDGs.

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Organizational Structure

JYPS has adopted an inclusive and democratic structure to enable the participation of diverse youth organizations with different activity themes, sizes, and regions, and has established a platform based on the principle of ensuring representation and democracy.
Simultaneously, JYPS is also devising ways to maximize the use of its knowledge of each field in policy advocacy.

Publication

The latest project report, proposal and income and expenditure statement

published by JYPS can be found below.

Annual activity report
2023

Income and Expenditure
Statement
2023

Research report on the
“Pioneers of the New Era”
project

JYPS Secretariat

List of Activities and Achievements

We have organized/participated in various events, both in and outside of Japan. You can click this to view our recent publications and policy proposals.

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HLPF

High-Level Political Forum

The High-Level Political Forum (HLPF), held every summer at UN Headquarters, is a conference to assess the progress and challenges of the SDGs and to set targets for UN member states around the world. From ministers to various sectors such as civil society, youth, and academia, actors from diverse regions join this conference. From the year of establishment until 2019, JYPS had dispatched members to HLPF every year.

ECOSOC

Youth Forum

The ECOSOC Youth Forum is one of the most active forums for youth to exchange views in preparation for the HLPF. JYPS is involved in public awareness-raising, networking, and the development of the ECOSOC Youth Forum Outcome by organizing side events and publishing statements. The outcome has the power to inspire cross-country change as it will be on the agenda of the ECOSOC plenary session among nations. In 2018, JYPS sent five members to the UN headquarters in New York, the host city, to organize a side event and to participate in the conference.

NEA

North East Asia Multi-stakeholder Forum

The North-East Asia Multistakeholder Forum on SDGs is a sub-regional forum consisting of five Northeast Asian countries (Japan, South Korea, China, Mongolia, and Russia) to review progress on the SDGs in preparation for the HLPF. For the 2022 conference held in Mongolia and the 2024 conference held in South Korea, we dispatched members to give a speech at the multi-stakeholder forum in 2022 and in the youth forum in 2024. Each year, youth conducts its own assessment of its own country's progress in achieving the SDGs and shares it with participants in other Northeast Asian countries. There are three forums, Youth Forum, Civil Society Forum, and Multi-Stakeholder Forum, each of which drafts a statement, which is absorbed in this order.

あつまれJYPSの森

“Atumare JYPS no Mori” is an event aimed at connecting youth striving for a sustainable society, fostering learning, and generating new initiatives. Each session features a youth organization, providing opportunities to share diverse perspectives through their activity introductions and discussions.

新時代のパイオニア

In order to make the remaining six years until 2030 “Six Years of Action and Change” and to stimulate discussion from Japanese society toward the realization of a sustainable society, we conducted a process to discuss issues of the international community for the future with the project executive committee members from February to September 2024 under the title of “Pioneers for a New Era” (Voluntary Youth Review/VYR), a process to discuss issues of the international community for the future. We conducted interviews, questionnaires, and collected opinions at events to complete the “Analysis of Japan's Achievement of the SDGs from a Youth Perspective.

SDGs Youth Forum

In 2023, the SDG Youth Summit was preceded with four online webinars. Each featured speakers from a different sector, and included a panel discussion among participants on how youth can contribute to the achievement of the SDGs. Panelists included members from IGES, Toyota Motor Corporation, NPO directors, and active members of youth organizations, prompting fruitful discussions.

国際金融・財務アドボカシープロジェクト

We organized a workshop in order to discuss how Japanese youth can face the international financial framework with committee members. As a workshop, two online lecture events and discussion events were held and regarding that we finally made a proposal.

SDG Youth Proposal 2023

With the year 2023 just past the turnaround point to achieve the SDGs, we have drafted a policy proposal for achieving the SDGs in a useful and efficient manner in the time remaining. The policy proposal is based on a series of four Youth Forum webinars and input from over 100 public comment responses.

The proposal was handed to the Director of the Global Issues Management Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during the SDG Summit 2023 event held in August 2023.

Youth Proposal 2023

Youth Proposal 2022

At the official side event of the 3rd Paris Agreement Meeting on Enhancing Synergies between the Paris Agreement and the SDGs, we handed the "Youth Proposal - Designing a New Norm for Sustainable Society through Synergistic Strategy" to UN DESA, UNFCCC and the Ministry of Environment.

The proposal was made in collaboration with Change Our Next Decade and Climate Youth Japan after soliciting public comments from MGCY.

Youth Proposal 2022

第5次男女共同参画基本計画パブリックコメントに伴うユースからの提言

With the release of the Fifth Basic Plan for Gender Equality and the call for public comments, we collaborated with other youth organization to submit proposals after holding events and study groups under the initiative of #What is Gender Equality.

（The picture：JOICFP）　

2020年第5次男女共同参画基本計画パブリックコメントに伴うユースからの提言.pdf

「2050年カーボンニュートラルに伴うグリーン成長戦略」に対する提言

In order to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, it is essential to have constructive discussions from the three perspectives of “environment,” “economy,” and “society” based on the principles of the SDGs to create synergistic effects.

As the future generation who are directly affected by climate change, and as a platform for youth to promote discussions toward a sustainable society, we made proposals in terms of measures that strengthen existing strategies, in light of international norms and international principles such as the Paris Agreement and SDGs.

2021年「2025年カーボンニュートラルに伴うグリーン成長戦略」に対する提言書.pdf

新型コロナウイルス感染症と環境政策に対する意見書

2020年新型コロナウイルス感染症と環境政策に関わる意見書.pdf

開発協力大綱改定案に関するユース提言書

In advance of the revision of the Development Cooperation Charter in 2023, we held several study sessions with JYPS alliance members and meetings for the exchange of opinions between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and youth.

Based on these activities, we drafted a proposal and handed it to Mr. Hideki Kusakabe, then Deputy Director-General of the International Cooperation Bureau at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

This proposal was co-authored by Yuta Takahashi, Representative Director of the general incorporated association Katawara, Rei Kanazawa, a refugee support activist, and Climate Youth Japan, a youth environmental NGO.

開発協力大綱改定案に関するユース提言書.pdf

「新時代のパイオニア」調査報告書　の手交

As part of the “Pioneers of the New Era” project conducted in 2024, a report on the degree of achievement of the SDGs from a youth perspective (Voluntary Youth Review) was submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Global Issues Division, and other Japanese government agencies.

The content of this report is referenced in the Voluntary National Review (VNR) to be announced by the Japanese government in 2025 and the Spotlight Report by the SDGs Civil Society Network.

「SDGs Youth Proposal 2023」の手交

SDGs Youth Proposal 2023 was submitted to Mayor Ryosuke Takashima of Ashiya City. After the handover, an exchange of opinions took place, during which we discussed the significance and necessity of youth participation, referring to Ashiya City's initiatives as a reference.

第3回パリ協定とSDGsのシナジー強化に関する国際会議

The Paris Agreement on climate action was adopted in 2015, as were the SDGs. However, the Paris Agreement is often considered separately from the SDGs. This conference analyzes the relationship between them and discusses where synergies can occur and how these issues can be resolved.

This conference was held in 2022 at the United Nations University in Tokyo, and JYPS was a speaker at the plenary session, handing Youth Proposal and hosting an official side event

持続可能なアジア太平洋に関する国際フォーラム

ISAP is an annual international forum hosted by the think tank IGES (Institute for Global Environmental Strategies). The forum aims to discuss climate change measurements in the Asia and Pacific region, and further accelerate the prevention of the rising temperature and the conservation of the environment.

JYPS has joined the session and exhibited a booth every year, and a secretariat of JYPS was a speaker at the closing session in 2023.

アフリカ塾

アフリカ開発会議の開催年である2022年は、アフリカ地域における課題を普及啓発するイベント「アフリカ塾」をJYPS、アジア経済研究所、早稲田大学平山郁夫記念ボランティアセンター（WAVOC）が共催しました。

アフリカ開発会議（TICAD）とは、日本政府主導のアフリカの成長・開発の政策について議論される国際会議です。「アフリカ」と十把一絡げにされることが多いですが、アフリカ大陸には多様な国々と課題がある現状を、ゲストスピーカーを招いて学びました。

TICAD
サイドイベント

アフリカ開発会議（TICAD）が開催されるにあたり、JYPSはサイドイベントと現地派遣を行い、アフリカユースとの連携を深めました。

2016年と2019年に開催されたTICADでの活動に参加しました。

SDG Japan
開発ユニット

市民社会ネットワークSDGs Japanの中のユニットの一つである開発ユニットに、JYPSは参加しています。毎月の会議でSDGsを日本が達成し、それを他国にも広めていための連帯を議論しています。

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