World Journal of Youth and Sustainable Development (WJYSD) is officially launched by the World Association for Sustainable Development  (WASD) during the United Nations International Youth Day 2025 on Tuesday 12th August 2025.

WJYSD aims to promote the top quality international research, ideas and information about the role of Children and Youth in achieving Sustainable Development (SD) across the world. WJYSD will focus on all issues relating to the engagement and participation of Children and Youth particularly in Developing countries (DCs). WJYSD aims to consider new perspectives about Children and Youth research and puts together, for the first time, original and cutting-edge contributions aimed at illuminating and charting new directions for researching, teaching and understanding of this extremely important subject.

The journal publishes original papers, review papers, conceptual papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, notes, commentaries, and news. WJYSD particularly encourages papers that significantly bring new knowledge to the area both for academics and practitioners. Special Issues devoted to important topics about Children and Youth will occasionally be published. WJYSD is intended to benefit ordinary people, students, academics, professionals, researchers, policymakers, businesses, etc from across the world with the best available scientific evidence, to enable better understanding of the different challenges facing Youth across the world.

WJYSD is published by WASD in the United Kingdom (2 Issues per year) ISSN: 2634-2669 (Print) and 2634-2677 (Online) and will be abstracted and indexed by: ABI/Inform (ProQuest) and Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities; Crossref; British Library and most top universities across the world such as Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge, etc. All WJYSD articles will be available to download FREE of charge from our DIGITAL LIBRARY and VIDEO LIBRARY.