Youth mainstreaming

Youth mainstreaming is a public policy concept. The Commonwealth of Nations describes it in this context:
It is modeled on gender mainstreaming, which the United Nations defined in the 1990s as:
Strategy.
Youth mainstreaming is a two-fold strategy for pursuing youth development. Inspired by the experience of gender mainstreaming, it involves ensuring youth is reflected in policy and project stages in various sectors and ensuring there are specific projects addressing youth. Together these add up to a "youth responsive" approach.
By reflecting, addressing, being sensitive to, and being responsive to youth issues, mainstreaming is meant to both looking at the impact of a policy/project on young women and men, and involve young men and women in order to ensure youth participation in the decision-making of those policies and/or projects that affects them.
Advocates of youth mainstreaming point out that young people represent a disadvantaged and marginalised social group, being over-represented among the global poor and unemployed. As such it is argued that "pro-poor" strategies must be "pro-youth", and that any development intervention seeking sustainable impact must address the youth cohort.
Purposes.
The purposes of youth mainstreaming include:
Process.
The basic steps in youth mainstreaming are to factor youth impacts and youth participation into all stages of a project, of whatever size and sector:
The steps that institutions can take toward youth mainstreaming are:
References.
4. Implementation strategies for youth mainstreaming in sustainable development processes United Nations (ECLAC).