YPS Consultations for Big Impact

YPS Consultations for big Impact

In 2025, CSPPS, in partnership with Interpeace, successfully launched a GIZ-sponsored project, “Ensuring inclusive and meaningful youth engagement - Youth, Peace and Security Consultations for Big Impact, designed to amplify youth voices and facilitate youth agency and leadership through structured consultations led by youth organisations. Seeking to offer an alternative perspective on the potential of young people as key drivers of national and global peacebuilding agendas and as rights holders shaping policy and governance frameworks, the project supported seven national youth-led consultation processes in Colombia, Guatemala, Kenya, Mali, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, and Syria.  

The project revolved around three main objectives, namely strengthening youth agency in peacebuilding and prevention, generating actionable recommendations that inform national and international decision-making and establishing linkages between youth-led initiatives and multilateral YPS processes. 

Outcome of the Project

This pilot project demonstrated that youth-led consultations can move beyond symbolic engagement to produce tangible policy-relevant outputs. CSPPS and Interpeace backbone roles ensured that youth voices were amplified, findings were aligned with broader peacebuilding and prevention frameworks, and lessons learned could inform policy influencing. Supporting the advancement towards peaceful, just and inclusive societies in local, national, regional, and international decision-making. Besides, the project strengthened connections between youth-led initiatives and international YPS processes, including the Second Independent Progress Study on YPS. The consultations have directly fed into critical global deliberations and multilateral frameworks that will shape the next decade of peace and security. The aim was twofold: to ensure youth-generated evidence identifies or fills defined gaps in the implementation of the YPS agenda, and to position youth perspectives to influence high-level policy debates – while simultaneously connecting and influencing local/national decision points in the countries where consultations take place.

What's next?

CSPPS and Interpeace are actively working toward the launch of a final report to share the main findings of the YPS Consultation for Big Impact project.