Since its conception in 2006, the Global Engagement Summit has hosted undergraduates and recent graduates from over 40 counties and 50 universities, with more than 35 global nonprofits for five days of exchange and capacity building at Northwestern University, in Chicago, IL. Through workshops, direct mentorships with nonprofit leaders, and outcome opportunities, GES delegates develop projects in microfinance, community development, global health, sustainable engineering, and many other change-b more...

Vision:
YALDA envisions an international network of inspired, empowered and proactive young African leaders who hold influential decision-making positions, are running their own organizations or companies, culminating in a prosperous and developed African continent.

Mission:
YALDA provides a forum for youth on the African continent and those abroad with a commitment to the welfare of Africa. By networking with professionals, mentors and each other, members will increase their capacity to t more...

London International Model United Nation (LIMUN) is the largest annual university-based Model United Nations conference set in Europe. It has a reputation for exceptional standard of debate set in London's unique and cosmopolitan atmosphere.

In 2008, LIMUN grew in new and exciting ways and continued to offer a wide array of opportunities for delegates of all abilities from more traditional UN body simulations such as GA committees to more specialised committees such as the UN Global Compact, more...

Google has announced a competition that would fund upto 5 projects with a budget of $2million per project. This is what Google says about the project...

'Why this project?

Never in history have so many people had so much information, so many tools at their disposal, so many ways of making good ideas come to life. Yet at the same time, so many people, of all walks of life, could use so much help, in both little ways and big.

In the midst of this, new studies are reinforcing the simple w more...

The majority of children living on the streets of South Africa were not born there. They moved away from an environment that was worse than the prospect of living on the streets. Their choice is not driven by a desire to live on the street; it is driven by the desire to escape from a life that is hurting them. They turn to the streets as the most promising alternative to their situation. 
The “street-child” stereotype leaves them on the periphery of society, alienated and misunderstood more...

UpToYouToo runs projects in Nairobi, one of the largest cities in Eastern Africa and the capitol of Kenya. We work in the violent ghettos of the Eastlands to help youth create jobs and discover and expose the rough talent present. We are not a big development organization but like to see ourselves as a lean & mean production house for development issues. Youth groups get entrepreneurship training through YIKE. In the past three years 600 youth in those groups got trained to set up their own busi more...

What is about?
TakingITGlobal is an international organization - led by youth and empowered by technology. TakingITGlobal connects youth around the world to find inspiration, information and get involved in improving their local and global communities. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with a growing worldwide presence, the organization's flagship program’ TakingITGlobal.org, serves as the most popular online community for young people interested in connecting across cultures and making a dif more...

Despite efforts to respond to
youth’s needs in individual areas and sectors,
the effects and scopes of policies concerning
youth have not, in general, been
proportionate to the corresponding needs
occurring in the contemporary world. Hence
Turkey seems to have foregone a large
part of the opportunity offered so far by
the demographic window of opportunity.

“Negotiations are taking place in Zimbabwe, but it’s men talking about issues affecting women. Where are the women at the decision making table ? ” asked Dr Helene Yinda, Programme Director for Africa and the Middle East at a tray lunch on Zimbabwe at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, July 24. As ecumenical organisations gathered at the session chaired by Yinda, the group reflected on the current political talks being held by Zimbabwe's opposition MDC and President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZA more...

Since their first participation in the UN Operation in the Congo in the early 1960s to ongoing UN peace missions in Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Lebanon, thousands of men and women of the Ghana Armed Forces and Police have proudly served as United Nations and ECOWAS peacekeepers.

To build on Ghana’s four decades of experience and competence in peace support operations, the Ghana Ministry of Defence in May 1998 approved the establishment of an internationa more...