• CYP:
• About CYP:
• What is unique about CYP?

What is unique about CYP?

CYP works with young people as equal partners. We see them as key stakeholders in society, whose voices must be heard and whose input must be taken on board.

We have a rights-based approach to development. We believe that development and human rights are inter-related, and that the two cannot be separated. In other words, young people are entitled to development as a basic human right. In practice this means that all our work is designed to promote and defend youth basic right to development through decent work, education, equal opportunity, empowerment and participation.

CYP is also the only inter-governmental youth development agency that has young people participating at every level of its management and operations. We hope this will become a model throughout the field of youth development.