In October 2026, MYCP brought young people and civil society together through its Global Youth Consultation for Ending Violence Against Children (EVAC). It produced a body of qualitative evidence linking children’s safety to service accessibility, continuity of care, community-led prevention, financing and meaningful participation. That evidence shifts the EVAC agenda from commitments and services in principle to a harder question: can children safely access and influence them in practice?
Here’s how we did it, and why we made the choices we did.
One day, several ways in
The consultation opened on 8 October 2026 and stayed open for written contributions until 19 October. We didn’t want one format to decide who got heard, so young people could take part in whichever way suited them:
Written submissions, for those who preferred to reflect in their own time or couldn’t join live.
Eight live discussion rooms run in several languages, so no one had to work through English to be heard.
Thematic roundtables, including a financing session titled “Who pays to keep children safe?”
Visual boards, for contributions that didn’t need to be written down.
A follow-up Youth On The Move focus group, to go deeper with young people with lived experience of migration.
* 812 young people in MYCP's GCM Youth Consultations (October 2024 – June 2025) and 100+ written responses to the 2026 EVAC Global Youth Consultation.
What we asked about
Alongside violence prevention in migration and displacement, the consultation covered:
safe and inclusive education
healthcare
detention
trafficking and labour migration
youth- and survivor-informed decision-making
financing for child protection
Who made it happen
The consultation was organised, facilitated and led by MYCP. Its outreach, advocacy and Youth On The Move teams worked alongside thematic focal points for education, gender and climate mobility, and regional representatives for South-West Asia and North Africa and for Latin America and the Caribbean. French, Arabic and Spanish translation officers and trainees made the multilingual rooms and written responses possible. The evidence was analysed with MYCP’s Monitoring and Evaluation Lead.
How we protected the people who spoke
Asking young people about violence carries real risk, so we set some rules before anyone spoke:
Nobody had to share their story to be heard. Contributors could talk about barriers and solutions without disclosing personal experiences.
Every account is anonymised. Examples are used to show patterns, never to identify the young person behind them.
We quote only what was actually said. Direct quotations appear only where the original wording was available and clear. Everything else is paraphrased, so no one has words put in their mouth.
We say what the evidence can and can’t show. It isn’t a representative survey. It’s designed to surface barriers that service statistics miss. Country-specific accounts and organisations’ own reach figures are marked as contributor-reported, not independently verified.
Before deciding what children need, please ask them what they are going through.
Written consultation response
Building on what came before
This consultation didn’t start from zero. MYCP’s GCM Youth Consultations reached 812 young people on the move between October 2024 and June 2025, across 23 sessions in five regions. Together, the two processes bring more than 900 youth contributions behind MYCP’s positions on children on the move.
Consultation alone is not meaningful participation unless young people can influence priorities, implementation, and accountability.
Written consultation response
From what we heard to what we’re asking for
We grouped the contributions into five themes and turned them into the policy recommendations in MYCP’s EVAC policy paper. The paper was written by Yashiba Sanil, Policy and Operations Manager, and edited by Laura Coburn, Global Coordinator and Head of Secretariat. It sets out priorities for the Second Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children in Manila, 18–19 November 2026.
Outside research is used only for context. The core evidence is what young people told us.
Read the consultation report and the policy paper.
