Since foundation of GYLA, GYLA has closely collaborated with the UN agencies, academic institutions and universities, central and local governments, and youth organizations in the world. The partnership is crucial to the growth of GYLA. GYLA has adopted the principle of a strategic partnership to conduct her businesses, ranging from business owners cooperating to invest in a project to share technical knowledge and ideas between organizations. Whatever GYLA does, it is important to look for the right partnership agreement that benefits both parties.
The mission of GYLA is to empower youth as future leaders for engagement in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Just as Antonio Guterres stresses, "All our hopes for a better world rest on young people. sustainable development, human rights, peace and security can only be achieved if we empower these young people as leaders." Therefore, the UN agencies have been the primary stakeholders and partners of GYLA since her foundation. In fact, many UN agencies have started the collaboration with GYLA, such as ILO, UNIDO, WHO, FAO, WMO, UNCTAD, etc. Many of the successful UN professionals and leaders have participated in GYLA activities by sharing the United Nations values, knowledge, technical expertise, and their personal experiences. The UN agencies also assist GYLA in arranging the study visits to their organizations which allow participants to expose themselves in the real UN environments.
“Education is not a tool for development-individual community and the nation. It is the foundation of our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams”.(Nita Dalal Mukesh Ambani). The target group of GYLA is young people, particularly college students from academic institutions and universities. GYLA was founded in collaboration with top Chinese universities in 2016, and now has reached out more universities in the world. At the moment, over fifty universities, such as Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Nanjing University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, etc. 1200 outstanding college students have participated in GYLA programs and built the partnership with GYLA.
"The working youth is critical to our future. The economy depends on you. With your hard work and efforts at improving your skills, you can make ours one of the most prosperous nations in the world." (Nelson Mandela). The youths in any country represent the future of that country. Youth participation in a growing economy is an essential key to national development. The world’s most biggest power is the youth, therefore governments shall make meaningful efforts to help empower youth to contribute sufficiently and competently towards the socio-economic and sustainable development of the country. Nowadays, most of governments in the world include the youths in decision making processes especially the ones affecting their lives. GYLA has imbedded the needs of national governments in her curriculum development, to promote a high sense of responsibility and citizenship, and increase the likelihood that the country’s programs and services.
Youth have long been leaders in social change efforts, today’s young people are increasingly supported in this work through youth organizing programs. In December 2020, for the first time, an alliance of the Big 6 Youth Organizations joined forces with the World Health Organization and United Nations Foundation to launch the “Global Youth Mobilization for Generation Disrupted”. It is the world’s largest youth movements involving more than 250 million young people, which have contributed to the empowerment of more than one billion young people during the last century. GYLA will voluntarily join the groundbreaking initiative to invest and scale-up youth-led solutions and youth engagement, to direct support towards a generation of young people severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, to shine a spotlight on young people whose lives have been disrupted by the pandemic.
