Youth Partnership for Peace and Development

Registered with the National Youth Commission of Sierra Leone and the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs, the Youth Partnership for Development (YPPD) is a national nongovernmental, advocacy and human rights nonprofit making youth-led organization established in 2005. The organization was borne out of the desire of bringing young people onboard who can serve agitators and agents of change and activists in their respective communities for the promotion of advocacy and youth empowerment in nation building. YPPD holds a conviction on young people as creative partners in development; thereby strongly believing that as young people that there is the call to build the buoyancy needed in others, as a possible way of enabling youth in stepping forward for meaningful changes in their various communities and the world at large. At the Youth Partnership for Peace and Development, we seek to provide a ‘youth-led solutions’ that to address the numerous challenges facing leaders of tomorrow by effectively using young resourceful minds to influence the course of inclusive policy formulation and development in a consistent and harmonized manner. With our vision, we develop insight from the daily struggles of our fellow young people who are marginalized and voiceless in the communities they live. This initiative is entirely managed for and by youth, which we consider as a novelty in the lives of every young person trying to make a change. Today, the organization is one of the fastest growing youth-led initiatives in Sierra Leone with stronger presence in the communities we work. VISION We have a vision whereby young people can maximize their participation in development and democracy; shaping the present and future for their communities and societies; thereby advocating for the rights and dignity of our fellow young people that are marginalized and voiceless. MISSION We advocate via informing, involving, inspiring and celebrating social change led by and for youth. We connects with organizations and individuals who support young people, and build an alliance between youth groups, empower and develop the marginalized and vulnerable groups to become responsible future leaders by taking active part in the decision making processes and development programs at all levels to take the golden destinies into their own hands. We do these by finding sustainable solutions together with likeminded institutions as partners.