Buliding on youth assets through volunteerism as a means to enhance the community livelihood and increase their freedom of choice to have better quality of life.

YAPD believes in the importance of the youth serving society through volunteer work.

The Youth Association for Population and Development (YAPD) is a central NGO, having its headquarters in Cairo. It was the idea of the youth "Friends of the Forum" who assisted in preparing and organizing the ICPD Cairo 1994 to found this association. It believes in the importance of youth...
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The Youth Association for Population and Development (YAPD) is a central NGO, having its headquarters in Cairo. It was the idea of the youth "Friends of the Forum" who assisted in preparing and organizing the ICPD Cairo 1994 to found this association. It believes in the importance of youth serving society through volunteer work.

Through its work, the YAPD accumulated a wide range of experience and innovations in the fields of research, advocacy, training, facilitation and technical assistance. The aims and interests of the YAPD cover a wide range of issues of concern including: Youth and Employment, women and children, health, information and international communication, Environment, Education, rural-urban immigration and Training. And it is through combining all these interests and professional work together that the association aims at serving the youth and youth organizations.

By engaging in different projects the YAPD has entered into several partnerships with various international as well as governmental institutions. Some of them are UNFPA, CEDPA, Social Fund for Development (SFD), the Egyptian Ministry of Health and the Ministry Youth.
Some of YAPD's experiences include conducting a baseline study for the "Youths leadership project" in 4 governorates (Cairo, El-Minia, Beni-Sweif and El-Fayoum). The study entailed choosing a sample of youths ( around 500 university students) and assess their needs and aspirations before and after graduation. Also in Beni-Sweif, the association conducted a research aiming to assess and evaluate the potentials and capabilities of youths in volunteer work and civil society efforts (with particular emphasis on the issues under reproductive health and Family life Education).

Through the years, the association expanded to include a large number of members (reaching over 1000 members from both sexes, and coming from different academic backgrounds and disciplines). The association also has expanded all over the country with local offices in Alexandria, Beni Sweif and Minia, in addition to its central office in Cairo. Now, the association has more than 200 well experienced trainers, around 100 in Cairo and the other 100 distributed in the different other governorates.

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