The Commonwealth Youth Council
Advancing the youth development agenda by integrating young people into the development work of the Commonwealth at national, regional, and Pan-Commonwealth levels
Youth Representation & Advocacy
Youth Empowerment & Development
Global Collaboration & Impact
Established In 2013
The official representative voice of the more than 1.5 billion youth
The Commonwealth Youth Council (CYC) is the official representative voice of the more than 1.5 billion young people in the Commonwealth. The CYC was first established in 2013 with the support of the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Commonwealth Youth Programme.
It was endorsed by Commonwealth Heads of Government at their biennial summit in Sri Lanka as an autonomous, youth-led organization
Impact Projects
IMPACT
The Climate Change Programme
IMPACT
Promoting the Commonwealth Blue Charter in Ghana – CYC leads workshop series in Ghana
Countries
Executives
Committees
Billion Participants
News & Events
The Commonwealth Youth Council Meets with the Secretariat of the Pan African Youth Union (PYU)
The Chairperson of the Commonwealth Youth Council (CYC), Joshua Opey, was in Rabat, Morocco, on a working visit to the Secretariat of the Pan African
Srishti Manthan-National Environmental Conclave
Led by the Asia Regional Representative of the Commonwealth Youth Council (CYC), the CYC, in collaboration with Students for Development, organised the Srishti Manthan –
Side Event at the 80th Session of the UN General Assembly
At the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, The Commonwealth Youth Council hosted a high-level engagement with other partners under the theme “From