Youth mental health and well-being has emerged as one of the most urgent and cross-cutting challenges of our time, shaping young people’s lives, opportunities, and capacity to contribute to peaceful, inclusive, and sustainable societies. This urgency is particularly acute for young people living in contexts of crisis, conflict, displacement, and humanitarian emergencies—where exposure to violence, loss, uncertainty, and structural deprivation significantly heightens mental health risks. 

The United Nations Office of Partnerships has been advancing critical global leadership on mental health through the Greentree Acceleration Plan, which elevates mental health as a shared global priority requiring multi-stakeholder action specially pointint at the urgent Action to Scale Up Evidence-Based Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) in Humanitarian Settings, particularly through Track 3: Policy Recommendations, with a strong focus on the mental health and psychosocial well-being of humanitarian workers and frontline responders. 

In parallel, the United Nations Youth Office, through its Flagship Initiative on Youth Mental Health and Well-Being, has identified an urgent need to strengthen policy advocacy, elevate youth-centered language within intergovernmental processes, and shift global narratives from reactive, symptom-based responses toward ecosystem-level, preventive, and rights-based approaches.  

This work is anchored in the Joint Call to Strengthen Policy and Investment for Child and Youth Mental Health and Well‑Being, developed with WHO, UNICEF, and UNESCO and launched at the 2025 World Social Summit in Doha, where the Initiative was formally introduced and global leaders underscored the need for system‑level transformation across social, health, and community structures. Building on this momentum, early diplomatic champions—including Ambassador Omar Hilale, Permanent Representative of Morocco, and Ambassador Sophie De Smedt, Permanent Representative of Belgium—have played visible roles in advancing the follow‑up in New York, helping position youth mental health as an emerging priority for coordinated Member State leadership. 

Bringing these agendas together, the Goals Lounge Series offers a strategic platform for UNOP and UNYO to jointly strengthen, align, and leverage a shared agenda that is present in the daily lives of young people—particularly those who face the greatest vulnerabilities, including in humanitarian and crisis-affected settings. 

The United Nations Office for Partnerships is partnering with Nexus to build a shared understanding of the importance and impact of the United Nations. Nexus is a community of young investors, social entrepreneurs and philanthropists. The closed-door discussion will look to identify where the greatest opportunities for young philanthropists to accelerate progress on the SDGs lie.

Migration governance financing remains fragmented, underprioritised, and insufficient. Much of it is reactive, short-term, or crisis-driven - yet well-governed migration is a proven driver of sustainable development for countries of origin, transit, and destination. As FFD4 follow-up and the IMRF converge in 2026, there is a rare opportunity to reposition migration within the development financing landscape and move towards the strategic, coordinated investment the GCM calls for.

The Migration MPTF is the only UN pooled financing mechanism fully dedicated to GCM implementation - a catalytic instrument that pools resources from diverse donors and channels them through coordinated joint programmes spanning the full spectrum of GCM objectives. Its model: accountable, demand-driven, and aligned with a globally agreed framework.

The dialogue will mark the launch of the new Technical Support Window of the Migration MPTF - the centrepiece of CBM 2.0 - consolidating financing for all three CBM pillars under one governance framework and replacing fragmented, ad hoc contributions with a predictable, sustainable base.

The CBM's architecture aligns directly with the UN80 reform agenda - and this dialogue will also explore a more ambitious MPTF financing target for the next phase, positioning it as a major vehicle for migration governance financing alongside other global pooled funds.

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