Adolescent well-being framework: Virtual youth consultation report

Adolescent well-being is a growing area of policymaking, programming and research, yet there is no consensus on how it should be defined and measured. To address this, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) recently published ‘Make Adolescent Well-being A Priority: An Urgent Call to Action’. As part of the Call to Action, PMNCH and the WHO are leading an initiative of the United Nations H6+ Technical Working Group on Adolescent Health and Well-Being, together with youth and youth-serving organisations, to develop a framework for defining, programming, and measuring adolescent well-being. The framework will provide the basis for developing recommendations for adolescent well-being policies and programmes. The first step in this process was the publication of definition of adolescent well-being and a conceptual framework in the JAH in September 2020.