Asean Youth Advocates Network

The ASEAN Youth Advocates Network is an international youth-led, non-profit, socio-civic, and non-governmental organization established to pave the way for the ASEAN youth to experience involvement in their localities through a series of advocacy-based initiatives. The organization is considered a family of ASEAN youth advocates who aim to instill volunteerism, advocate solutions towards relevant issues in ASEAN and ASEAN member-states, and the composition of sustainable and innovative ways of nurturing the betterment of the ASEAN Community through the coalition of organization members and individuals. AYAN aims to instill a passion for service and a sense of initiative to ASEAN youth advocates through volunteer-based initiatives and programs catered to supported advocacies. Through these initiatives, the organization aims to inspire the youth to take better action towards the betterment of their respective countries and ASEAN while continuing to further the achievement of advocacies through mobilization and sustainability of the operation. AYAN aims to pursue aspiration of ASEAN youth advocates inspiring ASEAN communities to uphold active citizenship and advocacies towards the integration of social mobilization in our ASEAN community. AYAN aims to strengthen the level of awareness, knowledge, and volunteerism, and understanding of advocacies of the citizenry towards nation-building. AYAN aims to enable, promote, and ensure the participation, and the involvement of the citizenry in the ASEAN member-states’ youth development plan, ASEAN Youth Development Plan, and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Plan. AYAN shall establish cooperative relations with governmental and non-governmental agencies and institutions relevant to AYAN and its advocacies, like the ASEAN Secretariat.