Overall Objectives
The Overall Objective of YOPTI is to cultivate the full potential of young people and promote their active participation in community development. Our work empowers and motivates young people to take initiatives to contribute to the development of their communities and to improve their own lives.

Principles and values
1.Positivity: We will strive to create an enabling environment and positive experiences for the youth that we work with. We will make sure that they are comfortable when they participate in our activities, and that the promises we make through program development are kept.
2.Trustworthiness: We will ensure that the emotional and physical well-being of young people are given top priority throughout our engagement with them.
3.Legacy: We will build supportive relationships with our target beneficiaries, and lead by example in order to demonstrate to young people, especially those facing challenging situations, that they have the potential to change their situations and circumstances.
4.Equality: We will seek out mentorship opportunities with organizations that share our commitment to the holistic development of young people, to broaden the support-base available to them.
5.Loyalty: Finally, we will recognize and raise the profile of beneficiaries’ efforts and inputs to program development and implementation and create or build links between our beneficiaries and other opportunities.

Consistent with its mission, YOPTI has – over the last seven years – organized and implemented impactful training programs to enable young women and men to drive their own initiatives with respect to personal development and community advancement, advocated for and facilitated youth participation in the implementation of the national development agenda, and helped sustain the peace by working with young women and man on priority areas of need. YOPTI continues to cultivate the potential of young people and promote their active participation in community development.

By the end of August 2021, YOPTI adopted a concrete, realistic and achievable five years strategic plan that defines its course of action up to 2026. The plan serves as a roadmap, defining a clear destination while encouraging creativity and flexibility throughout YOPTI’s programs, interventions, and projects for the five years period of the plan. Over the five years period of the plan, there are four Strategic Priorities or themes that drive YOPTI’S work. These strategic priorities include:
1) Develop high-quality programs, interventions and projects that are based on the needs of young people, as defined by them, and have the potential of having positive impacts on them;

2) Prepare young people to serve as champions of the environment, through training and raising awareness about common environmental problems (for example waste and pollution, overexploitation and misuse of natural resources, Land, etc.), and organizing young people to provide community services to help address common environmental problems in their communities;

3) Increase partnership and advocacy for youth development, ensuring that YOPTI is easily recognizable in every partnership, by delivering high positive impacts on beneficiaries and through positive testimonies and feedbacks from beneficiaries on our quality of work; and

4) Secure stakeholder trust, broaden organizational resource base, increase visibility, and community presence through effective and accountable use of resources, and strengthened organizational governance by recruiting and retaining board members with high degree of integrity and commitment to YOPTI’s vision and core values.