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What is Y-PEER?
 Y-PEER, the Youth Peer Education Network, is a groundbreaking and comprehensive youth-to-youth initiative pioneered by UNFPA. Y-PEER is a network of more than 500 non-profit organizations and governmental institutions; its membership includes thousands of young people who work in the many areas surrounding adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
Where is Y-PEER?
 The network, which is constantly expanding, consists of youth from Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, North and East Africa, and was recently initiated in Brazil.
How does Y-PEER function?
 The network, which is constantly expanding, consists of youth from Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, North and East Africa, and newly established in Asian Pacific.
Y-PEER is an efficient and effective means of promoting youth participation in sexual and reproductive health issues. To this end, it builds partnerships between young people and adults by advocating for: - National youth development strategies
- Increased access to information, knowledge, and services on sexual and reproductive health
- Sharing lessons learned across borders and between cultures
- Standards of practice and improved training resources for peer educators
- Strengthening the knowledge base of peer educators and trainers of trainers
- Y-PEER Country Networks are designed by and for young people.
Who makes up Y-PEER?
 Members of Y-PEER include young people, active peer educators, trainers and youth advocates for adolescent sexual and reproductive health. They contribute to and benefit from the resource materials, tools, training programmes and campaigns provided by the Y-PEER website, electronic communications, and face-to-face meetings. As of 2007, Y-PEER linked more than 5,000 members from 36 countries. The network continues to grow as more young people and organizations join.
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