Introduction to Adolescent Well-being

Adolescent well-being will be essential to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and a societal good in its own right. A Global Summit for Adolescent Well-being is planned for the second half of 2023. As part of the  reparations for this, a series of regional multi-stakeholder consultations will be held in May and June 2021 to explore the key policy and programming issues related to the promotion of adolescent well-being. This paper introduces the definition and conceptual framework for adolescent well-being that was recently developed and published by the UN H6+ Technical Working Group on Adolescent Health and Well-being. It then gives an overview of the topics covered by the other fourteen background papers, which summarize the key policy and programming issues that must be addressed by programmes that aim to promote adolescent well-being.