Youth For Development

Our Youth for Development page is an online community, a collaborative space where the development practitioners and youth can share knowledge, best practices and research about youth and development related issues, such as as the Environment, Youth in Conflict or HIV/AIDS, Youth Employment, Children's issues, etc. If you want to learn more about development, connect with young people from around the world, and contribute to policy dialogues -- then this is the place for you.

Get Informed
Our interactive site offers you a unique opportunity to speak up and to make your voice heard. Did you know that one in four children around the World live in poverty? Or how many children in the age from 5- 11 are not able to go to school? Here is a place for you to learn more by taking some of our interactive quizzes, games, or explore some of the highlighted information through our broad collection of linked sites.

Make your Voice Heard
You want to speak up about an issue you care a lot. Sometimes it feels as if nobody wants to listen to you. On our site, we invite you to make your voice heard and to raise the issues you would like to discuss with others from around the World. You can either influence important policymakers, or just share your thoughts with young people in a situation just like you.

Share your Ideas
You want to share your favorite website, or upload a paper you wrote about the Vision for your City in 2020, or share a painting or photograph with friends from around the World. The Youth for Development page offers you the unique opportunity to do exactly this and more. The site is all about interactivity and getting involved. Take advantage of our interactive tools and share with others the things you care about the most.

Partnerships
Our site is the result of an active collaboration between many partners, which are all sharing the objective of using the Internet in a creative way to empower young people from around the World and to promote sustainable development and the reduction of poverty. To learn more about our partners and the people involved of bringing this site to you, please click on MEET THE TEAM.
Partner OrganizationsIf you are interested in becoming a partner of our program, please mail to youth(at)dgfoundation(dot)org

Feedback
What do you think about site? Which sections do you like the best? How easy do you find to use the site? What do you think we should improve on the site. Please write to us under the Feedback section, we are happy to hear from you! youth(at)dgfoundation(dot)org

Privacy Policy
The Development Gateway believes that privacy is very important. The audience of the Youth for Development Page are young people from 13-21. If you are under 13 years old you are ineligible to register on the site.

The Gateway’s Youth For Development Page in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 , will collect no personal information from anyone 12 years of age or younger.