Deadline: 14-Aug-2025
Ensuring inclusive and meaningful youth engagement, the YPS Consultations for Big Impact initiative aims to amplify youth voices and strengthen youth leadership through consultations led by youth organisations themselves. The program positions young people as key contributors to peacebuilding efforts, both nationally and globally, and as rights holders actively influencing policy and governance.
This initiative builds on the global youth consultations that led to the first YPS Progress Study, The Missing Peace, which was mandated by UNSCR 2250 and conducted between 2016 and 2018. These earlier efforts showed the strength of youth-led research and consultation and laid the foundation for furthering the YPS agenda.
The consultations are designed to ensure youth inclusion in various global processes such as the review of YPS implementation via the Progress Study 2.0, contributing youth perspectives to the PBAR consultations, influencing the Pact for the Future and the Declaration on Future Generations, and supporting Germany’s contribution to YPS through its policies and international engagement.
By conducting consultations in multiple countries and promoting cross-country learning, this project aims to reinforce collective youth advocacy and ensure youth participation becomes an integral part of peace and security policymaking rather than a siloed effort. The initiative seeks to make youth engagement a sustained, cross-cutting priority.
A budget of up to €10,000 per country is allocated for conducting the consultations. If multiple organisations are selected from one country, the budget will be shared among them.
To be eligible, applying organisations must be based in one of the following countries: Colombia, Guatemala, India, Jordan, Kenya, Mali, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Syria, Tunisia, or Turkmenistan. They must be capable of operating within their country’s political and civic space and should be able to safely and openly host youth consultations.
Applicants must demonstrate a solid understanding of the Youth, Peace and Security agenda, as laid out in UN Security Council Resolution 2250. Preference will be given to organisations with a proven track record in YPS-related work and a clear commitment to advancing the agenda at all levels.
Organisations should also have strong relationships and trust with other youth groups at the national level and be prepared to develop inclusive consultation strategies. They must commit to co-creating the process and outcomes with local youth actors and ensure the inclusion of diverse perspectives, such as different age groups, genders, languages, ethnicities, and rural or urban backgrounds.
Selected organisations must be able to compile and analyse the key findings from their consultations and be open to working in partnership with Interpeace and Cordaid/CSPPS. They should also be capable of meeting Cordaid’s legal and quality assurance standards.
For more information, visit CSPPS.
