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📌 Must-attend webinar | 'From Learning to Earning to Justice: Youth-Led Pathways for Gender Equality at CSW70'

Online via Zoom

This event is linked to the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) process, more specifically contributing to the Global Youth and Adolescents Recommendations for CSW70 through a two-step engagement approach. The online event and the subsequent community forum discussion are designed to strengthen meaningful youth participation by creating clear, accessible entry points for young people, youth-led organizations, and youth-serving organizations to engage in the recommendations-building process.

The online event serves as the first step. It will introduce the Global Youth and Adolescents Recommendations process and share how these recommendations inform CSW deliberations, while also spotlighting concrete examples from partners working across education, skills development, employment, entrepreneurship, and youth engagement.

Following the event, participants will be invited to take part in a community forum discussion, which constitutes the second step and is the accessible and concrete way for collecting inputs directly into the CSW70 Global Youth and Adolescents Recommendations.

Objectives:

  • To gather youth-driven inputs for the Global Youth and Adolescents Recommendations to CSW70, by providing a structured space for young people, youth-led organizations, and youth-serving organizations to contribute to the CSW recommendations process.
     

  • To showcase concrete examples of how partners are advancing access to justice for adolescent girls and young women through education, skills development, employment, entrepreneurship, and youth engagement across diverse contexts.
     

  • To strengthen dialogue between youth, civil society, UN and other partners on how learning-to-earning pathways can address barriers to justice and violence, and how these approaches can be translated into actionable, policy-relevant recommendations. 

Audience:

  • Primary audience:

    • Young people and young feminists

    • Youth-led, women-led, and youth-serving organizations advancing gender equality and access to justice through learning-to-earning interventions

  • Broader civil society and community actors:

    • Organizations working with marginalized and underrepresented groups, including Indigenous, Afro-descendant, migrant and refugee communities, LBTQI groups and rural and low-income communities

  • Wider stakeholders: 

    • Service providers

    • Researchers

    • UN practitioners supporting CSW70 preparations

    • Donors interested in youth-led, justice-oriented and gender-responsive approaches

Details:

  • Date: Tue, 27 January 2026

  • Duration: 1 hour

  • Time: 16:00-17:00 Nairobi | 14:00-15:00 Geneva | 8:00-9:00 New York

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Speakers:

  • Alice Shackelford
    Deputy Director, UN System Coordination Division and Head of the Global Office in Nairobi | UN Women
    Opening Remarks


  • Ritah Muyambo
    Programme Specialist, Coordinator, Youth Engagement | UN Women
    Presenter


  • Ayshka Najib
    Youth Lead for Feminist Action for Climate Justice with UN Women and the Generation Equality Forum
    Presenter


  • Valeria Esquivel
    Coordinator, Gender in Employment Group – EMP/GENDER and Employment, Labour Markets and Youth Branch EMPLAB | ILO
    Panelist


  • Dr. Jyotsna Jha
    Director, Skills | Commonwealth of Learning
    Panelist


  • Zainab Ali
    Capacity Building Officer | UNDP
    Panelist


  • Ruth Graham Goulder
    Senior Adviser, Gender Equality | UNICEF
    Panelist


  • Urmila Sarkar
    Deputy Director, Programmes | Generation Unlimited
    Closing Remarks


  • Deborah Sati Kesmen
    Member, UNICEF Generation Unlimited’s Girls’ Education and Skills Partnership (GESP) Girls Advisory Panel (GAP)
    Session Moderator

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