In our evolving, hyper-connected world, the complex challenges that face the international community, can never be understood and efficiently tackled without the necessary attention to the voices of today’s youth.
The COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated the obstacles to young people’s access to meaningful engagements with the international community, and caused a negative impact on a fair, just and ethical contribution of youth to the world’s major problems, including corruption.
At UNODC we believe that all young people should have the chance to express their ideas and concerns regarding integrity, ethics and anti-corruption matters, in a way that tangibly influences global policy dialogues. No solution to corruption can be sustainable, scalable, and efficient in terms of channelling inter-generational progress, without the participation of those who will be the very recipients of those same solutions. Therefore, in order to help youth realizing their rightful and decisive role in the making of policies that will concretely affect their future, we want to harness young people’s ideas and perspectives and meaningfully integrate them within our youth-related work.
For this reason, UNODC’s GRACE Initiative - the Global Resource for Anti-Corruption Education and Youth Empowerment - established the YouthLED Integrity Advisory Board. The 2026-2028 cohort brings together 43 talented young people representing 46 countries, who work closely with the GRACE Initiative team to advance education and youth empowerment as key tools to prevent and fight corruption at the local, regional, and global levels. Reflecting a commitment to diversity and inclusion, the Board comprises 25 female and 18 male members and includes young people with disabilities. lly.
