Who can apply to this conference?

The conference is pitched at the high-school level, so secondary-school students are the intended delegate pool, with applications routed through the mymun listing.

Where and when does the conference take place?

It is held in New Delhi, India, across a two-day window in the late-summer slot typical of the South Asian MUN calendar.

How large is the delegate cohort?

Organisers are planning for a cohort in the low hundreds, which supports a General Assembly plus a handful of specialised committees while keeping individual delegates visible to chairs.

What should delegates prioritise in their preparation?

Treat youth welfare as a budgetary and institutional question, study real UN resolutions on adolescent issues, and practise writing operative clauses that a chair could actually move to a vote.

Part of the Global Youth Welfare Model United Nation series

Global Youth Welfare Model United Nation

Name: Global Youth Welfare Model United Nation
Start: 2026-08-22T00:00:00Z
End: 2026-08-23T00:00:00Z
Location: NEW DELHI

NEW DELHI, India · high-school

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Dates: Aug 22–2026 (day: 23)
Fee: TBD
Reg deadline: TBD
Delegates: 400
Language: English
Format: In-person

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Summary

The Global Youth Welfare Model United Nation gathers high-school delegates in New Delhi for a focused simulation built around youth welfare themes. The conference is run through the mymun listing system, which signals that organisers expect an internationally legible registration and committee-allocation process rather than a purely local affair. For secondary-school students working their way into the circuit, this edition offers a compact format in a major Asian capital, with an applicant pool sized to allow meaningful committee debate without overwhelming first-time chairs or delegates.

Why this edition matters in 2026

Youth-welfare framings sit at the intersection of several real United Nations workstreams - education access, child protection, mental health, and the broader Sustainable Development Goals - and a conference that puts those issues at the centre of its agenda gives high-school delegates a chance to work on questions that are genuinely live in multilateral diplomacy rather than abstract historical scenarios. New Delhi is also a consequential setting. Hosting a welfare-themed simulation in a South Asian capital changes the tacit baseline of the room: delegates negotiate within sight of the development challenges they are debating, which tends to produce sharper, less performative drafting than the same topics receive in wealthier host cities. The scale matters too. A delegate cohort in the low hundreds is large enough to support a credible General Assembly and several specialised committees, but small enough that individual delegates are visible to chairs - a useful balance for students still building a record of awards and references.

How to prepare

Delegates preparing for a welfare-focused conference should resist the temptation to treat the topic as soft. The strongest position papers will treat youth welfare as a budgetary and institutional question - who funds it, which UN agencies hold the mandate, and where national sovereignty collides with international norms - rather than as a values statement. Because the conference is pitched at the high-school level, chairs will reward delegates who can translate dense policy material into clean, negotiable clauses. Spend preparation time reading actual UN resolutions on adolescent health, education in emergencies, and child online safety, and notice how operative paragraphs are constructed. That structural literacy is what separates award-winning drafts from earnest but unusable ones. Delegates travelling to New Delhi from outside India should also plan logistics early: visa timelines, school permissions, and chaperone arrangements typically take longer than the registration window itself, and the application portal closes well before the gavel falls.

Eligibility deep-dive

Level: high-school
Age: —
Team size: —
Country quota: Open

Schedule & deadlines

Conference
Aug 22, 2026 – Aug 23, 2026

Frequently asked questions

Who can apply to this conference?
The conference is pitched at the high-school level, so secondary-school students are the intended delegate pool, with applications routed through the mymun listing.
Where and when does the conference take place?
It is held in New Delhi, India, across a two-day window in the late-summer slot typical of the South Asian MUN calendar.
How large is the delegate cohort?
Organisers are planning for a cohort in the low hundreds, which supports a General Assembly plus a handful of specialised committees while keeping individual delegates visible to chairs.
What should delegates prioritise in their preparation?
Treat youth welfare as a budgetary and institutional question, study real UN resolutions on adolescent issues, and practise writing operative clauses that a chair could actually move to a vote.

Last verified May 27, 2026 · Source: mymun.com

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