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Youth Network for Millenium Development Goals

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Environment HIV/AIDS Youth Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Capacity building Information and communication technologies Millennium Development Goals Population: Reproduction, family formation and the status of women Sustainable Development: Capacity-building Climate change Gender equality
Geographic scope:	National
Country of activity:	Madagascar
Millennium Development Goals:	Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Promote gender equality and empower women Ensure environmental sustainability Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	The Network of the Young for the MDGs has six objectives: - To create a setting of exchanges between the young, to offer to all Malagasy youngsters the opportunity to express itself/themselves, - To do advocacy by the different actors of development in the country such as : the government, the private sector, the Civil society in view of their efficient support in favour of youth so much on a national and international scale, - To reinforce the Malagasy culture to increase in value the "Fihavanana" and "Firaisankina" (“Fihavanana” = relationship more than friendship) - To promote the recognition and the acceptance of the youth transversally within all processes of decision. - To push and to come with all initiative aiming the development and the well-being of the Malagasy youth - To incite the young to involve itself/themselves in his/her own initiative aimed by taking part actively in all MDGs activities.
Year established:	2005
Year of registration:	2008
Organizational structure:	THe Youth network for MDGs are set up to faciliate Youth participation at the developement process. So the structure is built to adapt in this way. at National level: there is the Coordination unit: as member: the national ccordinator, the communication relationship, the counselors, the technical responsible and teh organisational responsbile at regional level, there is the coordinator regional, the communication unit, the human ressource officer, and the techniqcal responsible
Number and type of members:	nowadays there are at least 1700 member

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