Listening to People!

What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.

"We" gets the credit!

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

Real Issues!

If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you will do will surely obscure them. If you do not alarm anyone morally, you will yourself remain morally asleep. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell..

Research

art of the soluble

Y4D is committed to critical issues of particular relevance to the public policy debate. These research areas compile recent work from across our diverse organization. At Y4D, we share our findings broadly as a public service. Read More

Education

safeguard of liberty

Y4D promotes an education system which aims at imparting knowledge by challenging the traditional educational system which meant for an unchanging static society and works as means of social control than an instrument of social change. Read More

Dialogue

willingness to change

Y4D facilitates negotiation, consultation or exchange of information between/among, government’s representatives, and organizations, on issues of common interest relating to economic, social and foreign policy.Read More

One leader creating another and another...ad infitum

While hanging out online, youth are picking up basic social and technical skills they need to fully participate in contemporary society.At Y4D we like what you're doing. We'd like to be part of it, somehow.To help Y4D create or join an online Y4D community to share your stories and expertise and learn from others too as we believe that Each of us can serve as leader and one leader creates another and another, ad infitum, just as one candle’s flame lights another and another until the once impenetrable darkness has turned to brilliant light.

Case Studies

Sobia from Mankera, Bhakkar empowering other girls by teaching them internet and exploring how to sell handicrafts through internet.

Tusawar Hussain from Mahani,Bhakkar introduces benefits of ICT to near by villages by providing them latest information from internet...

Consultation

Y4D help foundations, organizations community and youth groups design and launch new initiatives, manage implementation and evaluate impact.

Community

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

Training

Y4D customized unique and effective trainings helps in developing, implementing and evaluating new initiatives and to manage organizations more strategically.

Initiatives

Resources

Y4D provides a variety of helpful resources related to community and youth leadership in practical activities, tips and handouts that address all aspects of leadership.

Volunteer

Volunteerism is the voice of the people put into action. At Y4D we encourage these actions to shape and mold the present into a future of which we can all be proud.

Youth Development

Dominant Across the globe young people have a single role: Being a student and they are actively discouraged from participating in important matters in public life.It is a violation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Children, which requires that children (i.e., young people under 18) be consulted on all matters concerning them. Y4D offers models that can facilitate young citizens’ participation and frame their participation as an integral part of public life and as a political strategy for promoting economic and social justice.

Youth Leadership

Y4D connects social justice vision to youth leadership development.Let’s face it… the idea of working in teams or groups is going nowhere! Whether you find yourself working in a group at school, or you are working in an interdisciplinary team in your job, teams are just about everywhere. It is important to know as leaders then, how we can best build our skills to provide strong team leadership.Y4D offers practical tools, training, and consulting services to help foundations, organizations, adults and young people and develop leadership abilities rooted in their own values, goals, and skills.

Youth Partnership

Nothing about us without us

Through Y4D projects, young people are "turned on" to ways of contributing to the community, now and in the future; for some it is the main reason for being involved. They gain practical life skills and learn to make proactive contributions that benefit their own, peers' and community members' lives. They also model this to young people not actively involved, who benefit from or witness the project's work.

Youth Engagement

Frameworks of change

Y4D involve youth in youth-led activism, youth media, youth research and several other areas to engage young people in social change.Y4D introduces frames that would create the climate for youth organizations and communities to re-examine the pathways and opportunities they create for youth engagement, and find more effective ways to engage young people in creating change on a personal, organizational, and community level.

Youth Governance

Broader youth in governance vision

Y4D promotes the authentic and meaningful engagement of young people in programs, organizations, and communities, where they have or share voice, influence, and decision-making authority through programmatic efforts such as youth in government, youth on boards of directors, youth leadership training, or youth service-learning activities to support progress toward the broader youth in governance vision.