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Are you interested in attending a course about promoting the Culture of Peace?
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The Youth Association for Population and Development (YAPD) is a local NGO, having its headquarters in Cairo. It was the notion of a group of young people entitled as " Friends of the Forum ", who assisted in preparing and organizing the International Conference for Population and Development (ICPD) that took place in Cairo-1994 to found this association. YAPD strongly believes in the importance of utilizing youth in serving their communities through encouraging them to undertake voluntary actions. Through its work, YAPD accumulated a wide range of experience and innovations in various fields, such as research, advocacy, training, facilitation and technical assistance. The vision of YAPD covers a wide range of issues including : women and children, volunteerism health, information and international communication, environment, education, rural-urban immigration and training. Through all these areas, the organization attempts to serve youth and encourage their participation in building their society.
Through its engagement in different projects, YAPD collaborated with several partners and various international donors, such as UNFPA and CEDPA and governmental institutions such as the social fund for Development, the Ministry of Health and Population, Ministry of Youth and the Higher council for Youth and Sports.
Over the last period, YAPD gained experiences in through its involvement in various initiatives and projects, such as conducting a baseline study for the "Youths leadership project" in four Governorates (Cairo – Elm-Minia – Beni-sweif and El-Fayoum). The study entailed choosing a sample of youths (around 500 university students) and assessing their needs and aspiration before and after graduation. Also in Beni-sweif, the association conducted a research aiming to assess and evaluate the potentials and capabilities of youth regarding volunteer work and civil society efforts, with particular emphasis on reproductive health issues.
By time, the association expanded its activities and target beneficiaries either from youth or other NGOs. Number of youth who were keen to join the organization has been increasing day by day. Currently members of YAPD reach 1000 from both sexes. A main characteristic of those members is that they come from different academic backgrounds and have different personalities and ideas. The association was also successful in expanding its activities in many Governorates in Egypt through establishing its own local offices of the Governorates of Assuit, Qena and Minia, in addition to its central office I Cairo. At present, the association includes more than 200 well-experienced trainers; around 100 in Cairo and the other 100 distributed in the different other Governorates. The coming paragraphs would highlight some of the projects that were implemented through YAPD over the last six years and which regarded as success stories that sounded in various national and international organizations.
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