UN Youth Advisory Group

The United Nations Albania Youth Advisory Group (YAG) is a consultative and advisory platform composed of young people and representatives of key stakeholders of UN Albania. Members are nominated and selected to provide strategic advice to the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) in Albania on priority youth-related issues.

The Youth Advisory Group plays a vital role in ensuring that the voices, perspectives, and aspirations of young people meaningfully inform UN policies, programmes, and advocacy efforts in Albania. Through this mechanism, youth contribute to shaping development interventions so they are more inclusive, responsive, and impactful for Albania’s diverse youth population.

Members of the YAG benefit from a range of learning and engagement opportunities, including exposure to UN programmes and initiatives in Albania, insights into the functioning of the United Nations system at national and global levels, and direct engagement with UN agencies. The Group provides recommendations to the UNCT on how to strengthen youth mainstreaming across programmes and integrate a youth perspective throughout planning, implementation, and monitoring processes.

Importantly, the Youth Advisory Group serves as a bridge between UN agencies and youth-led and youth-serving organizations across the country, with a particular focus on amplifying the voices of young people in vulnerable and marginalized situations. By fostering dialogue and partnership, the YAG helps ensure that youth policies and programmes reflect lived realities and address the needs and priorities of young people in Albania.

The UN Albania Youth Advisory Group is a voluntary body with a two-year mandate, contributing to the UN’s commitment to youth participation, empowerment, and the principle of “leaving no one behind” and in alignment with the vision of Youth2030, the United Nations Youth Strategy.” This strategy is the UN system-wide framework guiding coordinated action for and with young people globally. 

Meet the team: