Youth Development Association is a Palestinian non-governmental organization specializing in youth work in 2003 was founded by a young Palestinian group and focuses on programs to train young leaders and promote volunteerism and youth empowerment in order to enhance their role in building the Palestinian civil society.

Youth Development Association was founded in 2003 and is officially registered with the Palestinian Ministry of Interior under the number RA / 22210 / S. Targeting youth Development Association sectors childhood and youth of both sexes and has 37 youth centers in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, mostly present in rural areas.

Vision
Our association aims to build conscious youth movement, well-educated, aware of their needs and are able to achieve in the Palestinian society is built on the foundations of justice, democracy and equality.

Mission
We are a Palestinian youth civil association that works to educate young Palestinians and the provision of infrastructure for Youth Work and the development of young talent to be able to contribute effectively to sustainable community development, and working to open horizons of cultural and knowledge exchange between young people locally and internationally.

Society values and principles:

Our association is committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Convention for the cessation of all forms of Discrimination against Women and the International Convention on the Rights of the Child:
Our association believes in equality, transparency and equal opportunity and justice values
Our association believes in the importance of voluntary work and its role in sustainable development
Our association believes that the collective hard work and perseverance are the main pillars for the success of the institutional work.

Assembly aims to:

Encourage young people and develop their abilities.
Promote volunteerism
Contribute to solving the problems of unemployed youth to work.
Provision of accommodation to enable young people to develop their talents and practice their hobbies
Build young leaders capable of leading the Palestinian youth movement in defense of their objectives and to serve the Palestinian democratic society.