Bridging the Skills Gap: How the OECD Youth Policy Toolkit Supports ASEAN’s Youth through Education and Training

In Southeast Asia, where digitalisation, green transitions, and demographic shifts are reshaping the job market, ensuring equitable access to quality education and skills development is more important than ever.
OECD Youth Policy Toolkit: Article 3 – Gatsby Benchmarks

In many ASEAN countries, young people face limited access to career guidance and higher education awareness. Traditional university routes often dominate discussions, while vocational and alternative pathways receive less attention.
Expanding Career Horizons: How the Gatsby Benchmarks Can Improve Higher Education Awareness in ASEAN

Explore the OECD Youth Policy Toolkit, a resource for policymakers to create strategies that empower youth and inspire global action for a better future.
Launch of the ASEAN Youth Conference Youth Vision Report 2024

Discover how 80 young leaders united in Jakarta to tackle ASEAN’s biggest challenges. Their bold ideas now shape the ASEAN Youth Vision Report 2024
Outstanding Young Singaporean from AYO Recent Receives The DIANA AWARD In Memory Of Diana, Princess of Wales 2024

Singaporean youth leader, Cameron Tan, is honoured with the Diana Award for his contributions to youth mental health advocacy in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
ADHERING IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON VULNERABLE GROUPS IN ASEAN REGION

Introduction Migration and crime have grievously impacted women and children. The numbers do not seem to be improving (decreasing) over time and they are continuously being exploited by things like human trafficking (Mâțu & Schwartz, 2013), domestic and sexual violence, child abuse and neglect, elder abuse and neglect, stalking, voyeurism, kidnapping and hate crimes (Bailey, […]
LGBTQIA+ People in ASEAN: Present Scenario, Challenges and Future Direction

LGBT is an acronym for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. In recent years, LGBTQIA has become more popular with the addition of the more diverse word “QIA” (Question or Queer, Intersex, Asexual). Later, the term LGBTQIA+ is more widely used as LGBTQIA with a “+” at the end, meaning that there are many other sexualities. […]
ASEAN Youth’s Role to Combat Academic-centered Sexual Assault

Fear and concern over sexual violence are among the biggest problems that youths, especially college students, have to endure in Indonesia. In a supposedly safe place to pursue education, students have faced many sexual assault and violence cases for years. Many of these cases remain unreported due to the victim’s fear of being blamed by […]