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Youth Leadership Development Program YLDP 2025

The Youth Leadership Development Programme (YLDP) is designed to enhance leadership capacities of emerging youth leaders by equipping them with a unique set of skills required to better achieve their aspirations and fulfil their desired role in society.

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The Youth Leadership Development Programme (YLDP) is designed to enhance leadership capacities of emerging youth leaders by equipping them with a unique set of skills required to better achieve their aspirations and fulfil their desired role in society. It is a deliberate non-partisan project reflecting political pluralism and pluralistic societies through promoting the core ideas and values of social democracy - freedom, justice and solidarity.

The 2025 YLDP was focused on equipping young leaders on many topics which also included:

  • Project Management and Conflict Management
  • Democracy in Theory and Practice
  • Gender Justice, Ideology and Political Thinking
  • Fundamentals of Economy and Globalisation

This years YLDP graduation was graced by the presence of Mr. Alexander Rosenplänter from the Department of Sub-Sahara-Africa of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Berlin, Germany. 

The objectives of the YLDP can be found here