Annual Report 2025
Our themes
Our thematic work translates our strategy into practice, bringing together partners, evidence, and young people’s perspectives to strengthen the systems that support their wellbeing.
Cities may become more liveable when young people are recognised as legitimate actors whose ideas and leadership create lasting social value. This can enable collective local action on deprivation, mental health, unsafe spaces, youth unemployment, and environmental stresses. With concrete opportunities, young people can shape solutions with others, alongside governments, the private sector, planners, artists, and communities, co-creating pathways to young people’s wellbeing rooted in lived realities.
In 2025, we worked with partners in digital rights and digital health to deepen our understanding of how a human rights-based digital transformation can centre young people’s rights, wellbeing and participation. This year saw us consolidate our experience in digital health as we shifted our focus towards broader youth rights and wellbeing.
Orienting public education systems towards wellbeing and agency is essential if we want to thrive together. But systemic change is slow and complex: it requires diverse actors from across the ecosystem (young people, teachers, families, administrators, policymakers, etc.) to work together; the coordination of diverse projects that effect change in different parts of the system; and close attention to fostering trust.
On global, national, and local levels, we advanced youth mental health by shaping policy commitments, generating evidence across individual countries, investing in youth-led innovation, and strengthening cross-sector collaboration to trigger systemic, scalable change.
