The GIYC has developed positions on the implementation of the SDGs from an indigenous youth perspective. On SDG 4: inclusive and quality education, the indigenous youth propose an intercultural approach to avoid unwanted assimilation policies and, at the same time, ensuring access to quality education for indigenous children and youth. On SDG 2: an end to hunger, the GIYC promotes the value of traditional knowledge, its inter-generational transmission, and indigenous food systems. On SGD 3: health and well-being, the GIYC encourages developing indicators for indigenous peoples, particularly indigenous children and youth, and an intercultural approach to sexual and reproductive health. The GIYC was invited by the Indigenous Peoples Major Group to participate in the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in July 2017. The GIYC was also invited to join the indigenous delegation to the Global Landscapes Forum in Bonn, December 2017 in which the GIYC promoted the use of traditional knowledge in forest conservation.

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