To promote youth empowerment and their inclusion development by expanding the capacities of, and opportunities for, youth groups to initiate and participate in community and local development initiatives. The project consists of (a) operationalization of the national policy including institutional strengthening and youth centers strengthening, and (b) youth in local development including youth grants, youth facilitators and capacity building, and program implementation and technical support 

The objectives for Youth Development Project (YDP) in the Timor-Leste is to promote youth empowerment and inclusion in development by expanding the capacities of and opportunities for youth groups to initiate and participate in community and local development initiatives. Youth played a seminal role in the violence that erupted in 2006 and which saw hundreds of thousands displaced, property worth thousands of dollars destroyed, hundreds injured, and dozens killed. In the absence of a concerted efforts to provide opportunities fir youth to engage meaningfully with communities and government in national recovery and development efforts, the rist of youth marginalization from development and civic life will persist.

Perfomance Monitoring System for SSYS designed and functioning. Increase in leadership, management and planning skils in youth centers. Youth participating in youth decision-making neetings in targeter communities. Number of YDP sub-projects implement by youth in targeter communities.