Youth Action Nepal (YoAC) – Associate Member
19 June 2019 3:32 pm

Nepal

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.youthaction.org.np

Tel: +977-1-4482186

About:

Youth Action Nepal (YOAC) is a leading national youth organization committed in the field of youth and development issues. YOAC prioritizes the essence of youth participation for sustainable and holistic development. Enhancing youth with their potential skill, knowledge and power is required for peaceful, democratic, disciplined and developed society thereby contributing a prosperous nation.

The organization mainly focuses on the issues of Safe Migration and Rights of Migrant Workers, Human Rights, Democracy and Youth Participation, Peace and Social Harmony and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). The organization has been receiving funds from international donor agency almost 1.2 million US Dollar every year since 2007. The partnership and trust of theses donor agency CARE, UNFPA, UNV, National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Misereor, IPPF, International Alert, UNIFEM/UN Women, WGNRR, United Nation Alliance of Civilization (UNAOC), USAID, Women Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) has increased the reputation of this organization in national level. There are number of visible and invisible impacts of the implemented projects in the past among them YOAC helped to raise and frame the National Youth Policy in Nepal in 2010. Likewise, research on Youth Participation in Decision Making Level of Major Political Parties, Youth and Security in Nepal, Youth Participation Auditing etc played important role in bringing facts and figures of youth in Nepalese context. YOAC also became the winner of United Nation Youth Solidarity Fund (UN YSF)-2013 from United Nations Alliance of Civilizations.

Contact Person:

Mr. Lekha Nath Niraula, Chairperson - [email protected]

Address:

House Number 161, Ghumti Kumari Marga, Ward number -31, Old Baneshwor, Kathmandu.
G.P.O Box : 9776, Kathmandu, Nepal,