The idea of Youth Advocacy Council (YAC) was conceived by a group passionate and self-motivated young leaders who aimed to strengthen capacity and role of the marginalized communities specifically youth and minorities for achieving Millennium development goals (now SDDs) across Pakistan. As a non-profit, non-political and non-religious youth-led organization, registered in Pakistan, we are expanding our organizational outreach in Albania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Philippines, South Korea, South Sudan, Uganda, and the United States.

Since its inception in 2012, despite having limited human and financial resources, we have been successful to create a vibrant forum for youth and deprived communities including indigenous people, minorities, transgenders, and rural women to facilitate dialogue, enable meaningful discussion to ensure ensuring their participation in development intervention, with special emphases their socio-economic empowerment, and helps to bring them into mainstream politic, raise their voices in policy and legislation in collaboration with CSO, multilateral and government organizations.

Vision

• Strengthening Youth for Social Development & Economic Empowerment

Mission:

• ·       Developing Youth leadership through experiential learning
• Improving the quality of life of communities particularly Youth & Marginalized Communities.
• Creating a global network of Youth Empowerment.

•     Promoting peace, harmony and ensuring equality for human globally

Thematic Focus:

• ·       Skills and Capacity Improvement for Tomorrow (SCIAT)
• ·       Primary Health, Sexual and Reproductive Rights (PHSRR)
• ·       Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
• ·       Human and Child rights
• ·       Gender Empowerment (Transgender and cross thematic sectors)
• ·       Digital Activism, Cyber Security and Socio-technolgical Disruptions