Global Perspectives is the major project of the International Youth Council on Gender Equality (IYCGE) during the 2025 - 2026 term. Under the direction of the Department of Research and Education (DRE) and the Global Ambassadors, Global Perspectives will foster global dialogue, empower local epistemologies, and establish IYCGE as a leading advocate for youth gender equality. Global Perspectives will resource National Youth Research Groups (NYRGs) to investigate the causes, manifestations, and implications of youth gender inequality in 20 - 70 countries. Under the leadership of Global Ambassadors, the NYRGs will submit extensive data and observations to the DRE. At the end of the annual term, the DRE will compile NYRGs’ research to publish a comprehensive, authoritative, and action-orientated report on global youth gender inequality. 

Global Perspectives follow a global, community-based, and diverse approach to gender equality. Discussions about gender equality largely draw from Western and euro-centric epistemology, overlooking and marginalizing perspectives from the Global South (Dei & Cacciavillani, 2024). Limiting the dialogue to Western-orientated global institutions, the existing approach fails to address multifaceted issues in the Global South (Dei et al., 2018). Global Perspectives rejects the supremacy of Euro-centric epistemologies, seeking to incorporate and empower a diverse range of approaches toward gender equality. Furthermore, scholarly investigations into gender inequality have adhered to a uniform, definitive set of methodologies (Eizadirad & Wane, 2023). The rigidity undermines research into communities that observe different customs and traditions, creating the need for methodologies based on local, communal circumstances (Switzer et al., 2024). Global Perspectives resources local advocates to develop a flexible and novel set of methods, encouraging innovation in community-based research. In initiating Global Perspectives, IYCGE responds to a long-standing scholarly, institutional, and political problem through creativity, flexibility, and meaningful action.