The World Programme had – among its relatively short list of very wide-ranging vision, aspirations and objectives – the promotion of access to education, the tackling of delinquency, improving the health of young people and the development of young people's participation in decision making.
Although the programme was supplemented some years later with further goals such as the cultivation of intergenerational relations, and attention to new information and communication technologies, it has lost momentum. Indeed, from the start, it was often subordinated in the big global policy debates to the Millennium Development Goals, which addressed similar concerns and which themselves are now being subjected to revision and renewal.
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