Oxfam International Youth Partnerships (OIYP) is a global network of young people, aged 18-25, known as Action Partners, working with their communities to create positive, equitable and sustainable change. These 300 Action Partners were chosen from over 1600 applications for their commitment, resilience and visions of change.

The OIYP program runs over three years and creates opportunities for dialogue, learning and challenging for its partners around the world. Over time, personal change in Action Partners will translate into social, economic and political change within individual communities, in regions and across the globe.

Many Action Partners are working in partnership with their own communities. Many are agitating for change institutionally. All are likely to be challenging existing structures that create inequality in their communities, countries and regions. The majority of young people in the network are working in their own communities in the Global South. OIYP has a focus on young people from marginalised communities but includes diverse young people working in different ways to achieve change.

See the selection criteria for the 2010-2013 cycle of Action Partners: