Definition:

Ratio between: (i) numerator: number of young people and adolescents who participated at least once during a 12-month period in some mechanism or procedure involving governmental bodies which formulate public policies, and (ii) denominator: total number of young people and adolescents.

Note:

If the source does not exist, an alternative could be to use official records of participants in government forums during a calendar year, in which case the indicator would be a gross participation rate. But it is unclear whether such records exist in all countries, or the quality of them. The indicator refers only to national or federal entities. The countries may include subnational entities in the calculations for their national reports. Some countries may make age distinctions for participation in government entities in which public policies are formulated, in which case the reference group may be smaller (for example, adolescents and young people aged 15-29 or 18-29 years). It is agreed that more work is needed on the metadata to arrive at an expert, politically validated and measurable definition of “formal mechanisms for participation” for adolescents and young people.