The Guidance, Counselling and Youth Development Centre for Africa (GCYDCA) is an inter-governmental non-profit organization established by African Ministers of Education in 1994. African Ministers of Education established the GCYDCA as a Regional Centre to coordinate and manage the guidance, counseling and youth development programmes in Africa. The GCYDCA has 54 member countries comprising French, English and Portuguese-speaking countries. The GCYDCA (fondly known as the Centre) has been granted full diplomatic status by the Government of Malawi and all legal capacities comparable to the UN agencies and other International organizations. The member countries include the following: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Cameroon, Cape-Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea – Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi (Host), Mali, Mauritania