On Aug 10, 2023, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) released the initial results from the What Young People Want survey. The survey involves completing a single sentence: “to improve my well-being, I want...” More than 1·1 million young people and adolescents age 24 years and younger have participated so far, at a rate of around 50 000 per week. “I want to stop child marriage in my village”, stated an Indian woman aged 19 years. “I want paved roads in my area”, said an Indian man aged 19 years. A woman from Indonesia, aged 18 years, asserted that “...