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City of Windhoek hosts Monitoring and Evaluation of BDS Services Workshop
Released:  13 January 2012
The Commonwealth Youth Programme through its strategic programme of Youth Enterprise and Sustainable Livelihoods (YESL) has been focusing on the curbing of youth employment through the promotion of Youth Entrepreneurship. Which places great emphasis on participatory delivery, partnerships and integrating programming.

3rd Edition of the International Perspectives on Youth Entrepreneurship Training Commences
Released:  6 January 2012
It is that time of the year again when different Youth Development Practitioners, Social Development Programmers, Enterprise Mentors, Trainers and Academicians come together for the ILO-CYP International Trainer of Trainers (ToT) programme in International Perspectives in Youth Entrepreneurship Training.

CYCI a Flagship Model for Entrepreneurship
Released:  12 December 2011
The Commonwealth Youth Programme since its inception is focused on youth empowerment and entrepreneurship among young people through various interventions undertaken directly with the member governments. It has a flagship programme for sustainable livelihood called Commonwealth Youth Credit Initiative (CYCI) which is a package of micro-credit, enterprise training and business mentorship targeted at the young people with the potential for self-employment.

Information is Power! A reality for ASK International School pupils as they visit the Africa Centre
Released:  7 December 2011
The Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) is the largest decentralized intergovernmental organisation solely committed to youth development set up by the Commonwealth Heads of Government in 1973. It operates in four regional Centres in Africa (Zambia), Asia (India), Caribbean (Guyana), South Pacific (Solomon Island), and the Pan-Commonwealth Office in London.

Zambia Makes debut at the 2011 International Gold Event
Released:  24 November 2011
The Commonwealth Youth Programme is actively involved in empowering young people especially in three key areas namely; Youth Enterprise and Sustainable Livelihoods (YESL), Youth Work, Education and Training (YWET) and Governance, Development and Youth Network (GDYN). This year, Commonwealth Youth Programme Regional Centre for Africa (CYP RCA), sponsored three Zambian delegates former Chengelo School pupils to the International Gold Event (IGE) held in Nairobi-Kenya.

Developmental challenges faced by Youths in Cameroon
Released:  24 November 2011
Three developmental challenges faced by youths in Cameroon and the strategies put to mitigate them: By Rosemary Agbor Mbeng Agbor; Cameroon’s Regional Youth Caucus Representative.

A new perspective from the International Gold Event
Released:  11 November 2011
By: Michael K. Mburu-Commonwealth Youth Representative-Kenya

Life Changing Experience at Volunteer Action for Development
Released:  11 November 2011
The Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) is an intergovernmental development agency that works to empower young people or youths realize that youth issues in development are more relevant to the Commonwealth than to many others and are more urgent than ever. Thus, CYP RCA supported Duncan Vanniekerk, a Youth Leader to the Volunteer and Service Enquiry Southern Africa (VOSESA) conference on Volunteering on the 17th -19th October 2011 in Johannesburg. This is in line with the Plan of Action for Youth Empowerment (PAYE) which places much emphasis on volunteerism.

Available: Internship Opportunity at CYP Africa Centre
Released:  30 August 2011
The Commonwealth Youth Programme Regional Centre for Africa (CYPRCA) assists member governments in the development of programmes for the empowerment of young people aged 15–29. Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) works to engage and empower young people to enhance their contribution to development. This is done in partnership with young people, governments and other key stakeholders. CYP advocates for effective participation of young women and men in the development process and for social transformation and CYP values their full engagement at all levels of decision making.

Call for Participants -International Perspectives In Youth Entrepreneurship Training 2012
Released:  1 July 2011