Believe in Better: - Shaping the future through the meaningful engagement of young

Believe in Better: Shaping the future through the meaningful engagement of young persons with disabilities December 2023 Believe in Better: Shaping the future through the meaningful engagement of young persons with disabilities Foreword An estimated 16% of the world’s population—approximately 1.3 billion people—live with some form of disability.i As of 1990, the estimated number of young persons w. [...] Believe in Better: Shaping the future through the meaningful engagement of young persons with disabilities 10 Meaningful engagement in decision-making (e) Actively prioritize the rights and interests of young persons with disabilities by meaningfully engaging them in the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of policies and programmes. [...] Commissioned by the UN Youth Office, the Youth2030 Joint Working Group, and the Youth2030 Task Team on Young People with Disabilities, the report is a part of the “Believe in Better” series of publications and aligns with the UN Youth Strategy (Youth 2030) and the United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy (UNDIS). [...] Believe in Better: Shaping the future through the meaningful engagement of young persons with disabilities 15 For the analysis of the socio-demographic indicators, only estimates for indicators with at least 100 observations in each group of young persons with disabilities and without disabilities are presented to ensure reliable estimates and to minimize sampling errors. [...] Even though the WG-SS, modified WG-SS, and the WG/UNICEF CFM questions are deemed to be comparable among the countries in the sample, differences in the method of data collection and diverse interpretations among the respondents contribute to the variation in the prevalence estimates.