YOUTH PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT
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The Youth Partnership for Peace and Development is a voluntary and non-profit youth-led development organization working directly with development partners across the world. Established in 2005, the organisation is staffed by a group of young proactive youths who are convinced that development does not lie in the hands of the elderly alone, but also in those of the youths. The overarching aspiration of YPPD is to contribute to the endeavours of supporting youth development, conflict resolution, stability and sustainable development, peace and democracy in Sierra Leone.
YPPD works to increase the capacity of vulnerable groups through training, partnership, advocacy, enhancing youth knowledge base and equipping them with livelihood skills that will help bring about meaningful changes within the communities they live. It is a platform for diverse kinds of actions committed to engaging key stakeholders at different levels of development across the country. Join our forum
It holds a conviction on young people as agents of positivism in terms of national development, thereby strongly believing that as young people that there is the call for us to come together and build the buoyancy needed in others, as a possible way of enabling youth in stepping forward for positive changes in our various communities and the world at large. With our vision, we develop insight from the daily struggles of our fellow young people who are marginalized and voiceless in the communities they live. This initiative is entirely managed for and by young people in Sierra Leone, which we consider as a novelty in the lives of every young person trying to make a change.
In response to the challenges that children and youth face and in line with the increased attention governments and the international community are giving to children and youth, the YPPD has made a commitment to integrate and deepen its work by first preparing a strategy on children and youth. The strategy focuses that youth and children should not be seen as problems or an issue, but as active agents of their own development in all spheres.
YPPD seeks to provide a 'youthful voice' that seeks to address the numerous challenges facing awaiting leaders of tomorrow by effectively using young resourceful minds to influence the course of inclusive policy formulation and development.
Our strategic programme areas include youth enterprise development, access to justice, gender empowerment through education and training, geared towards increasing youth capacity and knowledge in enjoyment of their human rights, fundamental freedoms and participation in decision-making processes that affect their lives.
OUR VISION
YPPD envisions a society wherein young people can maximize their potentials in development that affect their lives through enhancing their capabilities and enabling them affirm control over their life circumstances.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to advocate, inform, involve, inspire and celebrate social change led by and for youths through multi-fasted approaches. We connect with organizations and individuals with a view to supporting young people, and build alliances between youth groups, developing and empowering the marginalized and vulnerable youth of Sierra Leone.
OUR CORE VALUES
- Our work is inspired by global principles and values including among others; youth development, achievement and championship, active participation, leadership, entrepreneurship, gender equality, social justice, sustainable livelihoods and respect for diversity and human rights and protection of our environments.
- Reverence for peoples' initiatives and decisions irrespective of race, sex and class
- Effective participation and active involvement of young people
- Transparency and accountability to all
- Protection and promotion of human rights as a foundation for human dignity
- Protection and promotion of knowledge about the environment
- Partnership and collaboration with initiatives and organizations working towards development