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poverty. The UN brings technical expertise, powerful ideals, and its global legitimacywhich while in themselves are not sufficient, aligned with local knowledge, culture andcommitment, offer the possibility of holistic human development. As I argue in thenext section, the role of the UN is to help shape the creative energy of young peoplein order to be a force for positive political and economic change that is generatedlocally, according to the needs and hopes of Africans themselves. Rather than youthbeing symbolic of Africa’s poverty and social instability, the UN needs to recast youthas the symbol of regeneration and escape from poverty.The role of the United Nations in engaging youthThe UN and youth policyIn recent years the UN has shown an increasing recognition of the role of youthacross the world and of the importance in including young people in the developmentof programs and strategies to address poverty. Since beginning to publish the WorldYouth Report in 2003, the UN has increasingly emphasized the relevance of youthissues to development, based on the understanding that“young people can be dynamicagents of social change, taking an active role in combating problems…[if] given theright tools to work with”(United Nations 2003: 2). The 2003 report stated emphaticallythat the participation of young people ? politically, economically and socially ? canhave widespread and dramatic benefits for the whole of society. Other initiatives,most notably campaigns centred on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, havepromoted protecting the rights and furthering the interests of young people. Morerecently, as part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) campaign, there hasbeen an effort to show the way that youth participation is central to the achievement704