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National Federation of Youth Organisations in Bangladesh (NFYOB) is the national coordinating council of youth organizations in the country. The central committee of the federation is elected and constituted by the representatives of different member organizations. NFYOB has been very actively involved in all sorts of youth development action programmes in the country. There are 300.000 youth active in the organisation and it reaches about 500.000 youth through its activities.

NFYOB is registered under the Ministry of Social Welfare and affiliated with the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Govt. of Bangladesh. It is also associated with the Department of Public Information (UNDPI) and has Consultative Status with Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations.

In 2000 NFYOB become the national lead agency to organize the Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) and it is observing the GYSD successfully in each year. NFYOB is also coordinating the Youth Employment Summit (a decade campaign) country network for Bangladesh.

Since its formation in 1985, it has in its credit of leading and pioneering a number of social movement including Youth Employment, Poverty Eradication, Mass Education, Environment Protection, Water and Sanitation, Child Rights, Human Rights, Indigenous Population, Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, Motivation and rehabilitation programmes, Promotion and construction of Sustainable Culture of Peace and non violence.

Biggest successes

NFYOB implemented a training and self-employment project for the rural unemployed youth. ‘ Training and Self-employment for Rural Youth’ (2nd Phase) project aimed to provide mobile training on livestock and poultry farming for the poor youths in the rural villages. Project period was two years. 24 groups of rural poor youth were selected from 12 different villages for the training and at the end of the project some 480 (280 male and 200 female) poor youth were trained up.

From the very beginning and its formation, NFYOB was working with the Department of Youth Development, Ministry of Youth & Sports and other related departments of the government to update the National Youth Policy basis on the present needs. NFYOB Secretary General was one of the members of the drafting committee of the National Youth Policy which was proclaimed by the government in 2003.