The Policy articulates eight interconnected youth development “Pillars”:
1. Prioritising youth economic participation and empowerment.
2. Harnessing youth social and intellectual capital.
3. Facilitating inclusive and active youth participation in the civic and democratic life of Trinidad Tobago.
4. Creating safe spaces, peaceful communities, and environments
5. Accentuating holistic youth health and wellbeing.
6. Emphasising youth contributions to rural transformation, agricultural production, and food security.
7. Supporting youth action on climate change, environmental sustainability, and climate justice.
8. Creating an enabling environment for positive youth development in Trinidad and Tobago.
o Mainstream youth priorities across all development sectors
o Promote Social Inclusion through the implementation of youth development interventions and processes that are holistic, socially inclusive, gender-sensitive and informed by intersectionality analyses
o Enhance youth policy environments through functional strategic partnerships, adequate budgetary allocations and timely investments, responsive institutional arrangements, competent youth development professionals and effective monitoring and evaluation frameworks
o Facilitate active Citizenship through the strategic engagement of young people in the civic and democratic life of Trinidad and Tobago.
