Involving young people more as “equal partners” of governments and institutions in development policies and their implementation is one of the recommendations made, on Thursday 16 May in Brussels, to the European Development Ministers by the UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth, Sri Lankan Jayathma Wickramanayake, who will soon be turning 28.
She was the guest of the Foreign Affairs Council meeting in its 'Development' format (11 ministers, 17 ambassadors to the EU) to help Member...