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National Network
Egypt
Address
75 Mohammed Al Mokaled, Al Manteqah Ath Thamenah, 4441574 Nasr CityCountry
City
Cairo GovernorateProvince
CairoMobile Phone
01021635999Telephone
0222743663Telephone (other)
01097352454E-Mail (2)
partnerships@myfmed.orgWebsite
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2019Contact Person1
Abdelhalim MohamedJob Title 1
Executive DirectorContact Person 2
Youssef AroogJob Title 2
Elected Co-PresidentOrganisation Type
Non-Governmental OrganizationFields of Activity
Arts, Democracy and community development, Environment/Sustainable development, Heritage, Human rights, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, International/Cultural relations, Media, Religion, Research, Youth and educationGeneral Information
MYF is a green, digital, and advocacy-based organization dedicated to empowering youth and women in the Euro-Mediterranean region. It is led by youth to serve youth, especially those aged 18 – 29 with fewer opportunities who face geographical, educational, linguistic, economic or physical challenges in the Euro-Mediterranean region. Since its establishment, MYF has achieved key milestones that reflect its growing regional and international recognition. In 2019, MYF obtained the European Union Quality Label, enabling it to send and host volunteers across EU countries. In 2020, the organization received the King Hamad Award for Youth Empowerment for its contribution to achieving the SDGs. This was followed in 2021 by the United Nations and BMW Prize for Innovation and Intercultural Dialogue. In 2022, MYF became a permanent observer to the UNFCCC, being the second Egyptian foundation to do so. In 2023, MYF was granted special advisory status with ECOSOC, followed by accreditation with UNEP in 2024 and with UNCCD and UNCTAD in 2025.
Mission and Objectives
We, at MYF, seek to become the leading green and sustainable international youth organization, fostering representation and empowerment of young people across the Mediterranean region and its neighboring countries. We envision a future where young people of all genders engage in meaningful intercultural and intergenerational dialogue, contributing to positive change and development.
Our mission is to foster cultural and youth cooperation between countries overlooking the Mediterranean Sea and its neighboring regions through cultural exchange programs with the aim of promoting youth empowerment, communication and peace building.
Our Objectives:
- Promoting a culture of intercultural dialogue and cultural pluralism among the Mediterranean and neighboring countries.
- Building youth capacities to keep pace with development and face global challenges (technological, environmental and climatic).
- Contributing to achieving and promoting the fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, tenth, thirteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth SDGs.
- Enhancing youth participation to achieve peace, security and human fraternity.
- Involving youth who have less access to opportunities in social life.
- Empowering young women in societies with less access to opportunities and helping them navigate beyond borders.
- Building partnerships to exchange and apply best regional and international practices in the field of youth, women and environment.
Main Projects / Activities
MYF scope of work:
- Capacity Building Field: Project’s name: No One Behind.
- Cultural Exchange and Intercultural Dialogue Field: Project’s name: Mediterranean Youth on Track.
- International Volunteering Field: Project’s name: Mediterranean Youth Volunteers.
- Safe Spaces and Social Capital Building Field: Project’s name: Mediterranean Youth Café.
- Social Entrepreneurship Field: Project’s name: Project’s name: Mediterranean Youth Incubator.
- Youth, peace and Human fraternity Field: Project’s name: Dialogue on the Human Fraternity Document.
- The Field of Youth / Human Rights: Project’s name: Project’s name: The Mediterranean initiative for Human Rights Education Through Art and Sport.
- The Field of Gender Justice: Project’s name: Mediterranean Women Ship.
- The Field of Environment and Climate Change: Project’s name: Mediterranean Initiative for Climate.
- Youth Studies and Policies Field: Project’s name: Mediterranean Youth Center for Youth Studies and Policies.
How can you contribute to the Network in your country?
We are stick to work with Anna Lindh Network in the following:
- Youth Empowerment and Social Development:
We can provide expert analysis on issues of youth, as we have expertise in the field of youth studies, how can institutions involve youth in social life and decision-making process, how can youth participation work on international development, and how to design tools, techniques, training programs, sessions, workshops, and dialogue sessions that work on youth development. As well, we can raise awareness of relevant issues to social development, advance United Nations goals and objectives, and contribute with essential information at Anna Lindh Network events.
- Status of Women:
We are committed to the gender equality issue, as we provide a set of programs that aware youth of the issues related to gender equality such as end all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere, eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls, ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life. Also, our members and volunteers are divided equally, 50% women and 50% men, and we provide content through our social media platforms and our website in the masculine and feminine form. As we have experts in gender equality, we can provide analyses, writings, commentaries, and researches that can contribute to enhancing the work of the Commission on the Status of Women. Besides, we can raise awareness of gender quality goal and targets and make questionnaires in the Mediterranean region and present it to the Commission on the Status of Women.
- Sustainable Development:
MYF contributes to achieving and promoting the fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, tenth, thirteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth SDGs. We have the experience that can help us in providing the Network with analyses about how to promote and support the SDGs in the Mediterranean, recommend policies youth-related programs that can strengthen the role of civil society in achieving the SDGs, and make partnerships with other NGOs in supporting the SDGs. We can make social media campaigns that aware youth of the SDGs, play a major role in advancing United Nations goals.
Why do you want to join the ALF Network?
We, at MYF, believe in the importance of building partnerships. Thus, we see our joining the Anna Lindh Foundation Network as an opportunity to engage in meaningful collaborations with stakeholders active in the youth sector or within the Euro-Mediterranean region, to exchange best practices and contribute to the development of a more cohesive and sustainable Euro-Mediterranean community.