"Youth foresight can be used in policy-making, planning, and decision-making processes at the local, national, and international levels to inform future strategies, programs, and investments that will impact the lives of young people. It should involve collaborative and participatory approaches, engaging diverse stakeholders, including young people themselves, in generating a more inclusive and sustainable future.
Unfortunately, too few opportunities exist for young people to contribute meaningfully in these spaces. The opportunities that do exist often fail to engage diverse groups of youth (including the most vulnerable), ensure involvement of youth is appropriate to their interests and skills level, and provide safe, conducive, and accountable conditions for youth."
Our Future Pledge: An agenda for futures by youth is a toolkit and global campaign created by young foresight practitioners from across the globe, in partnership with UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight.
The toolkit presents three scenarios, collectively created by the young futurists. They are presented as three "rooms", each corresponding to a different climate future: "Cries and Crisis" (collapse, control and child exploitation), "Inclusivity and Resilience" (technology and knowledge as sources of interconnexion, understanding - and solutions), "Disruption" (a privatized, unequal future where youths escape to virtual worlds)...