YDA    

The Youth Development Association (YDA) is a Palestinian non-governmental organization specialized in youth work. YDA was established in 2003 by a young Palestinian group. YDA focuses in its programs on training young leaders, promoting voluntary work and empowering youth to reinforce their role in building the Palestinian civil society.

The Youth Development Association (YDA) was established in 2003 and registered under the number RA/ 22210/ S by the Palestinian Ministry of the Interior. YDA has 42 youth centers and 35 youth groups throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip .   

The Vision of YDA

The youth Development Association seeks to build a conscious and intellectual youth movement well aware of its needs and capable of meeting them in a Palestinian society based on justice, democracy and equality.

Mission of YDA

We are a Palestinian non-governmental youth organization that works on informing the youth, improving their talents and ensure an infrastructure for juvenile work to enable the youth to contribute effectively to a sustainable societal development. YDA also seeks to open perspectives of cultural and knowledge exchange between the Palestinian youth and the International Youth.

Values & Principles of YDA

1-      The Youth Development Association is committed to the Declaration of Independence, the International Declaration of Human Rights, all the International conventions that prevent all kinds of discrimination against women and to the international convention of Child Rights.

2-      YDA believes in values of equality, transparency, justice and equality in opportunities.

3-      YDA believes in the importance of voluntary work and its role in the sustainable development.

4-      YDA believes that the serious and perseverant social work is one of the pillars of a successful institutional work.

YDA aims at:

1-     Building and developing the youth capacities.

2-     Promoting voluntary work.

3-     Contributing to solving the problems of the unemployed youth.

4-     Providing Places for youth to practice and develop their talents

5-     Creating youth leaders and building their capacities to lead & protect the Palestinian youth movement’s objectives and to serve the democratic Palestinian society. 

The Youth Development Association works on a group of Programs that serve its objectives. These programs are:

1-     Youth Capacity Building Program: In the first program YDA tends to build the capacities of the youth by providing them with training courses in different topics such as in financial and managerial skills software programs etc. Moreover this program includes building the capacities of the youth branches themselves (i.e. equipment & furniture for the branches’ premises.

2-     Unemployed Youth Rehabilitation and Employment Program: YDA started establishing saving and credit groups to help reduce the percentage of unemployment among youth; through these groups,  youth (individuals or  cooperatives) can establish their own income-generating JUSOOR CENTERs.

3-     Voluntary Work Promotion Program: The voluntary work program aims at enhancing the concept of voluntary work among youth; several voluntary activities are carried out in this program such as olive picking, cleaning campaigns in the villages etc.

4-     International Youth Exchange Program: This Program is based on cultural exchange between the Palestinian youth and youth from other countries either by participating in programs organized by Euro-Med  program or inviting international youth to participate in International Voluntary Camp organized by YDA in Palestine.

5-     Children program : summer camps, open and fun days ,environment clubs , Dabka band , for children under 18 years

6-     Looping and advocacy : organize campaigns for there rights and rules ,civilian society and the wall

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