The Group of Twenty(G20) Leadership Summit is the forum of International economic cooperation. In strengthening major economic problems across the world, G20 leadership summit plays a vital role. In 2023, India is holding the G20 presidency with the theme as Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam or One Earth, One Family, One Future. As part of G20 Leadership Summit, Youth20 (Y20) summit is being organized for the engagement of youth across the world. The summit focuses on five themes namely, Future of Work- Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction; Peace Building and Reconciliation; Youth in Democracy; Health, Wellbeing and Sports. The main agenda of the Y20 summit is to encourage and empower the youth of the world to discuss and identify the problems and recommend a framework, policies required to solve the prevailing problems across the world to be addressed during the official G20 Leadership Summit.

KIIT deemed to be University is organizing the Y20 Consultation on 14^th and 15^th April 2023 with the topics Future of Work : Industry 4.0 , Innovations and Future Skills, Empowering young Scientists in Governance, Designing Disruptive Technologies, Making Sustainability A Way of Life, Health, Wellbeing & Sports : Agenda for youth, Designing Resilient Working Community, Designing Resilient and Peaceful Cities.

Civil20 (C20), as an official Engagement Group of the G20, provides a platform for civil society organisations (CSOs) to contribute to G20 deliberations, including through the submission of a C20 Policy Pack to the G20. During India’s Presidency of the G20 under the guidance of the C20 Chair, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, the C20 is addressing several priority areas organised into 14 Working Groups that will provide Policy Briefs for inclusion in the C20 Policy Pack. The Working Group on Gender Equality & Disability (GED WG), coordinated by Dr Bhavani Rao, Meg Jones and Nidhi Goyal, is one such group, that, through a series of policy dialogues with over 1600 CSOs from more than 100 countries, has secured policy recommendations on 8 sub-themes under GED. As part of the process of refining and prioritising recommendations to be submitted to the C20 Sherpa for consideration for inclusion in the C20 Policy Pack, the C20 Working Group on Gender Equality and Disability Summit is scheduled to take place on 22-23 April 2023, generously hosted by Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology in Bhubaneswar, India.

The expected output will be three recommendations per sub theme from which the GED WG Coordinators will identify four key policy recommendations to include in the GED WG Policy Brief. The eight sub themes under GED are: