Ms. Jolly Amatya
Secretariat of United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth (UN MGCY)
Jolly Amatya is a young professional from Nepal. She currently serves on the Secretariat of United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth (UN MGCY). In addition to being very engaged in the youth space at the UN, she is also the Executive Director of Sustainable Fish Farming Initiative (SFFI), a social enterprise that creates sustainable livelihoods for women by providing training, micro loans, and required assistance to develop cooperatives positively impacting families in rural Nepal. Through her work with the international community, the National Youth Council (she is the UN focal point), local youth groups, and the Alliance for Disaster relief, she has worked with national and local authorities in coordinating and facilitating relief, recovery and reconstruction projects during the 2015 Nepal earthquake and 2017 Nepal Floods. She has substantial experience in coordinating disaster response and resilience efforts including advocacy, planning & implementation, allocating resources and managing finances for many aspects of rescue and rebuilding operations specifically with youth organizations that leverage ICTs, mobile and web platforms and other technologies in facilitating informal community- level response, networking and coordination. She is a member of the UN Inter Agency Network on Youth Development (IANYD), Working Group on Gender Equality. She serves as the Honorary Tourism Ambassador for Sustainable Development under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Nepal. She has also been serving on the Board of Directors for the US National Committee for UN Women, New York Chapter. As the Global Ambassador of Women Protection Center Nepal (WPC) based in Seattle and Nepal (Hetauda), an organization that assists rescued women and children survivors of gender violence and human trafficking in Nepal, she works to raise awareness and advocacy for prevention of girl trafficking, investment in young and adolescent girls’ education upliftment of the status of marginalized and indigenous girls/women & advancement of SRHR. She has previously served as the Co- Chair and the Senior Program Coordinator for the “Youth Assembly at the United Nations”, a biannual youth conference at the UNHQ organized b Friendship Ambassadors Foundation that provides a unique platform for fostering dialogues and generating partnerships between youth, civil society, private sector, and the UN. She has recently been recognized by the “National Youth Award” by the Government of Nepal (Ministry of Youth) & “Champions of Change” by the US National Committee of UN Women.