CC06 - Youth Forum

The Youth Forum took place in the historic Healy Hall at Georgetown University, the Copenhagen Consensus Youth Forum brought together almost 40 Georgetown students on the sidelines of an unprecedented meeting of UN ambassadors. Their common goal: to create a priority ranking of solutions to global challenges.

The students and the ambassadors received the same expert presentations, and both groups developed their own median ranking. 
 
The students participating in the Youth Forum represented a broad range of countries from all regions of the world. They came from a variety of undergraduate and graduate programs in Georgetown College, the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, the McDonough School of Business, the School of Nursing and Health Services, and the School of Medicine.

Moderating the Youth Forum was Maria Luise Wagner, Director of the Certificate for International Development and Visiting Assistant Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She has been teaching at Georgetown University and various universities in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe since 1987. After her retirement from a six-year tenure at the World Bank in 2001, where she designed and helped implement various strategies to increase development effectiveness, her teaching and research has focused on comprehensive analyses of the major challenges in international development.

The outcome of the Youth Forum

The Youth Forum addressed the same ten challenges as the UN ambassadors and delivered a prioritized list of the solutions. The Youth Forum was presented to the same material and by the same presenters as the UN Ambassador Panel.
 

Rank	Solution	Challenge
1	Reducing micro nutrient deficiencies	Malnutrition and Hunger
2	Sustainable food and fish production in wetlands	Sanitation and Water
3	Scaled-up basic health services	Communicable Diseases
4	Control of malaria	Communicable Diseases
5	Control of HIV/AIDS	Communicable Diseases
6	Improving infant and child nutrition	Malnutrition and Hunger
7	Improve quality	Education
8	Research to increase water productivity in food production	Sanitation and Water
9	Pessimistic Doha: 25% liberalization	Subsidies and Trade Barriers
10	Investment in technology in developing country agriculture	Malnutrition and Hunger
11	Small-scale water technology for livelihoods	Sanitation and Water
12	Reducing Low Birth Weight for high risk pregnancies	Malnutrition and Hunger
13	Optimal carbon tax	Climate Change
14	Procurement reform	Corruption
15	Reductions in the cost of schooling to increase demand	Education

To see the whole list please download pdf