This involvement and leadership - driven by a growing recognition of the unique perspectives that young people can bring to research - has yielded all sorts of benefits.
A collaboration between two youth-led organizations, for example - Canada's Youth Climate Lab and Ghana's Green Africa Youth Organization - resulted in more than 200 youth activists from Asia, Africa and Latin America developing policy recommendations for climate adaptation and mitigation in 2021.
Instead of adults instructing young people, young people identify the research questions and collect and analyze data themselves.
From 2017, young people aged 12 to 17 in a Bangladeshi community used their research on birth certificates to boost registrations of births.
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