In order to increase youth’s participation in development, AYON helped its member organizations to conduct pilot projects in Morang, Kaski, Kavre and Lalitpur incorporating Youth Participation Guide. The selected member organizations in these districts completed sample projects in partnership with... Read More

 AYON is part of the Vision New Nepal, which is a citizen led initiative working with a mission “New Nepal in Our Lifetime”. It intends to encourage a nation wide dialogue to formulate a broad consensus on the vision on... Read More

 Every year AYON commemorates the International Youth Day August 12 by bringing together wide spread youth organisations, government agencies and other relevant stakeholders to organise various programs to raise awareness about the day, recognize the contribution of youth in nation... Read More

 AYON has been constantly lobbying, advocating, and campaigning on various youth issues since its inception.It has been closely working with National Planning Commission (NPC), Ministry ofEducation and Sports (MOEs), other ministries, and bilateral, and multilateral agencies.

 AYON in association with United Nations Youth Advisory Panel (UNYAP) organized series of meeting with journalists working/writing on youth issues in 2010. AYON organized a two days orientation on youth issues to the media representatives in July 2010. Following the... Read More

 AYON organized two leadership camps in 2010 to promote and foster leadership within youth organizations. Youth leaders from various youth organizations participated in the camp. They learned and shared their leadership, team-building, interpersonal skills and experiences. This programme was supported... Read More

 AYON has been collaborating with Ministry of Youth and Sports (MoYS) to advocate and create a framework for Youth Responsive Budget in Nepal. Various consultation meetings with experts, government officials, economists, youth leaders, youths and media were organized in 2010.... Read More

 In partnership with UNFPA, AYON has been working on monitoring of implementation of International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and World Programme Action for Youth (WPAY) in Nepal. In 2009, AYON conducted two ‘Training of Trainers’ (ToTs) in Nepalgunj,... Read More

 AYON organized various talk and interaction programmes to collect feedbacks and challenges in implementation of National Youth Policy 2066 in Dharan, Dang, Chitwan and Kathmandu. The announcement for ‘Call for feedbacks on implementation of NYP’ was announced in Kantipur, Nagarik... Read More

 To promote youth leadership in national and local level, AYON, Youth Initiative and Youth Action Nepal in partnership with Search for Common Ground, UNICEF organized National Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF) in March 2010. 310 youth leaders from throughout the country... Read More

 It was a regional programme which supports the NGOs to strengthen their leadership capacity. Through a competitive process, AYON was selected for the project in 2009 and participated in “Strengthening of Leadership of CSOs in South Asia: Empowering Key Populations... Read More

 This campaign aimed to reach more than 10,000 and engage them in constitution building process of Nepal. Launched in March 2009, this campaign covered 11 districts, in partnership with 20 member organizations. The key feature of this campaign was Youth... Read More

 Pathway to Peace was a joint movement of AYON, Youth Initiative, Youth Action Nepal and Search for common Ground which started on 2008 August. AYON played a role in initiating peace dialogue among youth leaders from political, religious, faith based,... Read More

 The Meet brought together representatives from diverse fields with the objective of reviewing the progress and effectiveness of youth related programmes, projects and policies in the Three Year Interim Plan, UNDAF, National Youth Employment Action Plan and National Youth Policy.Theseminaralsoprovidedaplatformfornetworkingandsharinginformationamongvarious... Read More

 AYON served as a Steering Committee member for National Elections Monitoring Alliance (NEMA).DuringtheCAelectionsAYONcoordinatedthemonitoringactivities of 5 districts Dang, Morang, Dhanusa, Kathmandu, Gorkha and 25 constituencies. The one year project was funded by DFID and the Asia Foundation.

 Capacity building of youth organizations is one of the key activities of AYON.In 2008, two capacity building trainings in Nepalgunj and Biratnagar were conducted. Organizations from 50 districts participated in these trainings which was organized in coordination with the Ministry... Read More

 YouthPromotingPeaceinNepalisacapacitybuildingprogrammefor youthandyouthclubsinconflicttransformationandpeacebuilding.AYON brought together leaders from youth organizations and facilitated their roles in the peace building process. AYON conducted this project with OTI/USAID in 25 districts of Nepal in 2007.Inthis project 125 youth were trained in peace building,3000copiesofpeaceposterswerepublishedand disseminated,wallpaintingwas done,25youthpeacedialogueswithyouthpeacebuilding... Read More

 National Youth Assembly (NYA) is focused on identifying better position for capable young people to lead ‘New Nepal’ with adequate vision and implementation mechanism. The first NYA, in which more than 250 youths from approximately 50 districts, participated, was organized... Read More

 Youthin Development Partnership(YDP)was an award programme,that promotes youthinvolvementin development and supportsinnovative projects from youth-led organizations and groups. AYON organized this grant programme in 2006 and 2008. Forthe 2006programme,the WorldBankpartnered with AYONinsupporting 7projectsandfor2008 project, the then Ministry of Education and Sports... Read More

 AYONorganizedregionalconsultations to get feedback on Youth Employment Action Plan in 3 regions(Biratnagar,NepalgunjandPokhara)and 6 focusegroupdiscussions (Jumla, Illam, Banke, Dhanusha, Kailali, Dhankuta). Youths from various back ground participated in these activities. These consultations were supported by International Labor Organizations (ILO) and National... Read More

 AYON has been mapping and creating database of youth organizations from all over Nepal and has partnered with various stakeholders to facilitate this process. AYON hopes to have members from all 75 districts of Nepal in near future.

 Ongoing: AYON forum is held every month where member organizations of AYON organize talk programme on youth issues, trainings, capacity building, networking and experience sharing programmes.

 Since 2004, AYON has been celebrating International Youth Day on August 12 through different programmes and events. In 2005, 2006 and 2007, AYON organized a huge youth rally and various events like blood donation, art competition, and street drama show.... Read More