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Partnerships for the Goals is the 17th Goal of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda which aims to “Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development” (Global Goals 2020). The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child recognizes young people as valuable members of communities with the right to express their views and have those views considered by others including governments and other authorities (UN CRC 1989). Young people can exercise this right in many ways. Furthermore, when adults and adult-led organizations meaningfully engage with them, innovation in partnerships becomes possible. Engagement with young people should aim to maximize young people’s agency within social and political structures; transform adult and institutional perceptions of young people in dialogue with young people; and generate new policy processes and organizational forms...
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Swist and Collin are researchers in the Wellbeing Health & Youth (WH&Y) NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Adolescent Health (APP 1134984).
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Swist, T., Collin, P. (2021). Innovating Youth Engagement and Partnerships to Progress the SDGs. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Partnerships for the Goals. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71067-9_113-1
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