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The Malaysian-ASEAN Youth SDG Summit 2025
May 10 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Kuala Lumpur, 10 May 2025 – INITIATE.MY participated in the Malaysian-ASEAN Youth SDG Summit 2025, a youth-driven regional gathering that united over 300 multi-stakeholder participants. The All-Party Parliamentary Group Malaysia for Sustainable Development Goals (APPGM-SDG) and its training arm MySDG Academy were the joint organisers of this summit with support from the Ministry of Youth and Sports Malaysia, Malaysian Youth Council (MBM), and the United Nations Multi-Country Office for Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam. The summit served as a dynamic platform for dialogue, experimentation, and action around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—led by and for youth.
Eow Shiang Yen, INITIATE.MY’s Communications Officer highlighted INITIATE.MY’s Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) work via the latest Peace Lab for Religious Leaders and Thinkers (PLRT) in 2024. PLRT is a youth empowerment initiative in collaboration with the Malaysian Youth Diplomacy (MyDiplomacy) and MBM that tackles hate, intolerance, and radicalisation in Malaysia, and empowers the youths to counter the harms through digital content creation and advocacy.
A central highlight of the summit was the official launch of the W.A.Y. Forward Movement, an initiative by APPGM-SDG and MySDG Academy to transform youth engagement from mere participation to co-leadership in achieving the SDGs. W.A.Y.—Weaving partnerships to Accelerate SDGs with You(th)—champions intergenerational, cross-sectoral collaboration, positioning youth as architects of systemic transformation.
The summit redefined conventional formats through interactive SDG Labs, themed side activities, and a festive Utopia Night. Four SDG Labs explored Youth in Politics, Community Empowerment, Campus Advocacy, and Corporate Sustainability—creating inclusive, hands-on spaces for deep engagement.
INITIATE.MY’s presence at the summit reaffirmed its commitment to Education for Sustainable Development, and to amplify Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) agenda including youth-led peacebuilding and digital advocacy initiatives. As sustainability must be lived, felt, and co-created, INITIATE.MY looks forward to advancing collaborative efforts in alignment with SDG 4, 10, and 16, both nationally and across Southeast Asia.
INITIATE.MY highlighted its youth-led peacebuilding and digital advocacy efforts through the PLRT via a ESD poster at the Malaysian-ASEAN Youth SDG Summit 2025.