About Us

Our Headquarters is located within the Commonwealth Secretariat, London. We are one of four CYP Regional Offices. The others are: CYP Asia Centre (Chandigarh, India), CYP Africa Centre (Lusaka, Zambia) and the CYP Caribbean Centre (Georgetown, Guyana) 

The Commonwealth member countries that we work with in the Pacific are:

• Australia (pop. 18,967,000)
• Cook Islands (16,500)
• FijiIslands (810,000)
• Kiribati (90,000)
• Nauru (12,000)
• New Zealand/ Aotearoa (3,811,000)
• Niue (1,600)
• Papua New Guinea (4,810,000)
• Samoa (173,000)
• Solomon Islands (446,000)
• Tokelau (1,450)
• Tonga (99,000)
• Tuvalu (10,500)
• Vanuatu (192,000)

Our programs include youth policy development, youth enterprise (job creation), youth participation, youth worker training and HIV/AIDS Awareness. In addition to member governments and youth networks, CYP's close program partners include regional and national universities (University of the South Pacific, RMIT University, and Solomon Islands College of Higher Education),  bilateral (AusAID,, NZAID) and multilateral development agencies (UNDP, UNICEF, SPC); and the corporate sector (Adidem Group - The Body Shop, Accessorize). 

Our core budget is approximately 400,000 pounds (A$1 million) p.a