The MGCY seeks to: (a) Provide young people a platform for dialogue to create an evidence base for best practices in design, implementation, monitoring, follow-up and review of sustainable development frameworks and affiliated processes. This includes the assessment of existing knowledge, the generation of new knowledge, the identification of emerging issues and effective use and dissemination of knowledge to inform policy processes. It should include inputs from formal, informal, traditional and indigenous knowledge streams. Membership Membership in MGCY is facilitated through an open process. Any formal or informal child-led, youth-led and child-and-youth-serving entities, as well as their members and individuals, may join. All members of the UN MGCY must, first and foremost: AGREE to adhere to the Process and Procedures of the MGCY; AGREE with the principles of the UN Charter; AGREE with the values and principles of the MGCY as expressed in its vision - “the collective principles of solidarity, justice, equity, inclusion, human rights and the integrity of the planet”. The membership is divided between the following categories: Any youth-led or child-led entity that can sign up to the MGCY online or in person that is representative of the interests of children and/or youth, and has a policymaking body controlled by people 30 years old or under; Any child-or-youth serving entity that can sign up to the MGCY online or in person that works with children and/or youth but doesn't have a policymaking body controlled by individuals 30 years old or under. Any individual not part of one of the above-mentioned categories, may join the MGCY through becoming a member MGCY's legal entity called Children Youth International and abide to its Rules of Procedure and Code of Conduct. Once an eligible entity or individual (using the CYI channel) fills in the form, the coordination team processes the input and admits them as members. These entities that are members (not having a policymaking body controlled by people 30 years old or under) may not stand or vote in elections of the Organising Partners, Global Focal Points, or other mandated positions, apart from Children’s Focal Point. History The Major Group system was created following the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, also referred to as the Earth Summit. Through Section III of Agenda 21, one of the Earth Summit's outcome documents, the world's national governments formally recognized the role of all