Youth Activism towards Social Development and Peace Building Initiatives in Nepal" aims to create a national network of young people from all sectors of society who are informed, educated, and sensitized to issues relating to peace, justice and development. Based on this knowledge and related skill development, youth will be empowered to responsibly contribute to peace building efforts in their communities and at the national level.
With the vision to increase and enhance youth involvement in peace building initiatives at local, regional, and national levels by addressing issues of conflict, injustice, and underdevelopment, there are various activities designed in three phases. There are programs like training in peace justice and development, regional training and work camps on peace justice and development in different development regions. Besides these, campaign based activities like regional nepal youth social forums are planned in three regions. Holding the spirit of the first national youth social forum held in 2006, these social forums are also expected to encourage broader dialogue, debate and participation among young people for developing new visions, action plans, and promising policies for peace, justice, and sustainable and equitable development in Nepal.

After many years of struggle and conflict, Nepal has accomplished the historical constituent assembly election and the constituent making process is set off. In this context YOAC Nepal in partnership with Search For Common Ground (SFCG) is going to create Youth Constituent Assemblies at the regional and central (national) levels, enabling young leaders from diverse political, caste and ethnic backgrounds to write a youth constitution. It will provide a forum for young people to identify the issues that they wish to see incorporated in the constitution and give policy recommendations. Regional Constituent Assembly will be conducted in three Development Regions. A national Assembly will be conducted in Kathmandu with 80 participants including participants of Regional Assembly and other participants from indigenous group. The National Assembly forms a drafting committee which would draft a youth constitution. The final product will be publicized in a press conference and submitted to the national parliament and the constitution drafting committee as the consensus opinion of Nepal’s youth.

"SangSangai "is an effective educative and interactive methodology, a tool for communication with young people aged 15 years onwards. It has been scientifically tested in more than 15 countries for the last 10 years. As a large number of people visit SangSangai in a short time, it is most suitable for groups in certain settings, e.g. youth clubs, schools, vocational training institutions or work places. Potentially, SangSangai can also be used with other, social or professional groups e.g. teachers, police, and military recruits. SangSangai consists of six physical stations. Up to 90 participants are divided in six groups which move simultaneously from station to station. At each station they learn about one particular topic with the help of a team of youth facilitators. They remain in each station for 15 minutes and complete the entire circuit in 90 minutes. Topics are revealed and discussed through the use of pictorials, role plays, exhibitions, and games. The Stations: i. Sexually Transmitted Infections: This station explains the symptoms of the most common STIs and provides the message that these diseases are curable. ii. HIV Transmission and prevention: In this station the participants learn to differentiate between risky and non-risky behaviour with regard to HIV transmission. iii. Protection: This station focuses on the reasons for and benefits of condom use. iv. My Body: Given the taboos regarding adolescents’ sexuality, participants are encouraged to discuss the physical and emotional changes during growing up. v. You and Me - Gender: This station addresses situations of daily gender inequality and possible ways to change this. vi. My Life - Solidarity: This station has the purpose of establishing a sense of solidarity for the people living with HIV and reducing stigmatization.

Migration study and research is another part of its operation. With the support of NHRF, YOAC has carried out the research level work nationally and internationally. In some of the remote hilly districts, mini research work was carried out to find out the sensitiveness and magnitude of international out-migration. It is also working on policy advocacy on migration by gathering the stakeholder media persons and the concerned authority in workshops, interaction and training programmes. It is also supporting small grants to six youth organizations at the community level under the name of Youth Organization Empowerment Fund to sensitize the human rights activities at the community level. In the nearest future, it is going to publish a handbook of human rights.

YOAC is active in building its partnership with different national and international organizations. In its contact and network, there are many local level NGOs which help in the coordination of different programmes at community, district, regional and national level. One of the achievements of this organization is developed partnership with many likeminded organizations. You can find the profile of our network and likeminded organizations at the end of this document.

Human rights, democracy, and political affairs are also the concerned issues of YOAC work part. It is also handling the issue of Youth Action for human rights initiative in Nepal. YOAC and NED together are operating various programmes to strengthen human rights and democracy in Nepal through trainings and other. We have organized a study session recently and in the nearest future we are going to organize district level training on human rights and democracy at some selected districts. We also have thought of organizing district level interaction programme in the selected 5 districts

Youth Action Nepal has several ongoing projects. It has primarily focused over the sexual and reproductive health and rights as a major youth issue. YOAC and CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality are undergoing with the SRHR issues in Nepal from community Level to the policy advocacy level. A three-year project is being launched since 2006 . This year YOAC plans to work with young political leaders and discuss with them on the issues relating with SRHR.