Empowering Youth Together
We are a youth-powered organization dedicated to shaping a more inclusive, participatory, and progressive society. At our core is the belief that young people are not just future leaders—they are leaders now. We work to harness the energy, creativity, and passion of the youth to drive meaningful change in our communities and beyond.
Through strategic programs, collaborative partnerships, and bold advocacy, we create spaces where young voices are heard, valued, and empowered. Our approach blends innovation with action, challenging traditional systems while building platforms for youth-led solutions.
Guided by values of inclusion, equity, service, critical thinking, and shared humanity, we remain committed to pushing boundaries, creating alternatives, and making sure the youth are at the center of social transformation.
Together, we lead, act, and rise—because building a better world starts with empowered youth.
ABOUT US
Center for Youth Advocacy and Networking (CYAN), a youth-led and youth-serving non-governmental organization based in the Philippines. Established in January 2005, CYAN is committed to empowering young Filipinos to actively participate in shaping their future through advocacy, alternative politics, and social development.
CYAN envisions a society that recognizes the youth sector as stakeholders in providing for an enabling environment for active citizenship, alternative politics, progressive reforms, and dynamic involvement in social development work.
In attaining its vision, CYAN strives to optimize youth activism through innovative programs and approaches, sustain and expand partnerships among youth organizations that effectively empower the youth, and uphold sectoral advocacy for a developmental youth reform agenda and progressive democratic roles in society.
CYAN is guided by its core values of social inclusion and participation, equality and partnership, commitment to serve and empower, intelligent and innovative activism, and authentic humanization.
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LOCATION
CYAN is dedicated to empowering youth through advocacy and networking, fostering active citizenship and social development in our community.
Address
33G Mabait, Teachers Village East, Diliman, Quezon City
Hours
9 AM - 5 PM