Practical Guidance Resource to Operationalize the Global Consensus Statement on Meaningful Adolescent and Youth Engagement (MAYE)

As with any guidance, this document is not a silver bullet, but rather is meant to guide different stakeholders towards the highest standards of meaningful adolescent and youth engagement. Stakeholders are starting at different points. All have different priorities / agendas / mandates for focusing on MAYE. All come with different considerations, resources (human and financial), and capacities for doing this work. All have different histories of working with adolescents and youth. This diversity is one we mean to celebrate in this document while recognizing that it poses a challenge to creating a resource that is everything to everyone. Additionally, there are no globally-agreed technical standards on MAYE to guide this work, especially as it relates to the ten items included in the Global Consensus Statement checklist. This means that while this guidance will point stakeholders and signatories in the same direction of good practices, there are no standardised targets and indicators that would allow PMNCH and partners to track successful MAYE implementation thoroughly and consistently, especially on a global level.