The 2025 ECOSOC Youth Forum session on SDG 8, "Ensuring Decent Work and Economic Opportunities for Youth," will explore actions to address the youth employment challenge and advance decent work for young people.
It will spotlight youth-led initiatives and partnerships that create more and better jobs across diverse contexts, with a focus on disadvantaged and vulnerable groups.
Discussions will center on strategies to build youth-inclusive labor markets and equip young people with the skills needed to succeed in the future workforce.
Bringing together a diverse, inter-generational group of stakeholders — including government officials, young change-makers, youth-led organizations, civil society, the private sector, and the UN system — the session will foster collaboration with the aim of identifying solutions for youth employment in different contexts.
