The Youth Solutions Labs is a global youth engagement initiative co-hosted by the Second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing, UNICEF, and The GovLab at New York University that focuses on (1) co-designing solutions to five key issues impacting the health and well-being of young people and (2) understanding young people’s sentiments around re-using data that is for or about them on those key issues. Through this effort, we aim to bring young people into the health and well-being agenda-setting process and develop contributions for the Second Lancet Commission Report on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing. 

To this end, we conducted a series of consultation exercises that led to the development of six Youth Solutions Labs, two-hour remote co-design workshops, with 122 16–20 year olds across 36 countries. We also conducted pre- and post-Lab surveys with young people. We divided the Lab groups based on region: North America and Western Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia-Pacific. All Labs were conducted in English with optional interpretation in one additional UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, or Spanish).

This report summarizes the solutions proposed during the six Youth Solutions Labs and supporting surveys as well as other findings resulting from those conversations. These findings aim to support The Second Lancet Commission Report and Adolescent Health and Wellbeing. The data re-use findings and full methodology explanation are outlined in separate reports.

Read the full report here.