Founded in 1987 as the Human Resources Trust, and re-launched as the Youth Development Trust (YDT) in 1996, YDT’s mission is to act as a facilitative and responsive resource mobilizing and technical support foundation. It is dedicated to promoting the positive development of youth by strengthening the youth NGO sector.
It supports this mission through a number of initiatives encompassed in four strategies, namely:
Facilitating the building of a stronger, vibrant youth sector with the capacity for long-term sustainability through partnership programs aimed at enhancing organizational technical capacity;
Contributing to the building of a positive, supportive policy environment through research, documentation, and dissemination of information on best practices, policies, and standards for positive youth development;
Fostering program effectiveness by promoting the development and replication of performance standards through the professionalization of youth work;
Facilitating the channeling of funds to projects through the provision of grant making services to the donor community.
YDT entered into partnership with IYF in 1994. |
