3. Youth Agenda
 The PYDP 2017-2022 has the following strategies for the nine (9) centers of participation:
 3.1. Health

• Ensure youth participation in healthy living and the prevention of accidents and injuries;
• Strengthen youth participation in responsible sexual and responsible health;
• Address and mitigate youth participation in sexual risk-taking behavior;
• Address and mitigate youth participation in non-sexual risk-taking behavior; and
• Address psychosocial concerns.

3.2. Education
• Increase and improve youth participation in education; and
• Improve educational performance and quality.

3.3. Economic Empowerment
• Optimize youth participation in the labor force;
• Stop youth participation in vulnerable employment;
• Promote youth participation in entrepreneurial activities; and
• Strengthen youth participation in employment enrichment support systems.

3.4. Social inclusion and equity 
• Promote the prosocial participation of youth with specific needs;
• Maximize participation of youth with disability in society;
• Promote the participation of indigenous youth in society;
• Strengthen equal and equitable participation across genders (to address violence against
women);
• Strengthen equal and equitable participation across genders (to address job discrimination);
• Strengthen equal and equitable participation across genders (to address LGBTQ+ concerns);
and
• Strengthen equal and equitable participation across genders (to address gendered enrolment
and attrition rates).

3.5. Peace-building and security 
• Strengthen youth participation in promoting peace and order;
• Optimize youth participation in the peace process;
• Promote the prosocial participation of youth offenders, delinquent youth, and youth in conflict with the law;
• Promote the prosocial participation of drug-dependent youth; and
• Protect the youth from violence in situations of armed conflict and from human rights violations.

3.6. Governance
• Ensure universal participation in the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK);
• Ensure universal participation in local and national elections; and
• Promote youth participation in government bureaucracy.

3.7. Active Citizenship
• Strengthen enabling mechanisms for youth organization and participation: accreditation,
assistance and awareness;
• Engage the youth in the development, preservation, promotion and safeguarding, of Philippine
culture and arts; and
• Inculcate volunteerism through the engagement of the academe and the community.
3.8. Environment
• With active citizenship: Strengthen youth participation in environmental activities; and
• With active citizenship: Promote environment-friendly practices among the youth.

3.9. Global Mobility
• With education: Promote youth participation in cross-border exchanges;
• With active citizenship: Encourage and support mutually beneficial youth volunteerism in ASEAN and
international volunteer programs;
• With economic empowerment: Support youth participation in cross-border economic
activities; and
• Address cross-border youth trafficking.