Juvenile movements and organizations in Latin America –almost as in the whole world- are many and very different, besides they change throughout time. Experts in youth identify at least four big groups: (i) more “politicized” movements, such as student organizations and young people from political parties; (ii) those which work within complex and international structures with predomination of adult logics; (iii) those which are related to programmatic initiatives in local spaces impelled –among others- by Municipal Youth Commissions; and (iv) more informal groups including those that work around cultural expressions.

This organizations gather thousands of young people of Latin American and the Caribbean working on topics as juvenile participation, volunteering, ecology, recreation, politics, student movements, cultura, the territorial-communal (urban and rural), etc. Many of this organizations are exclusively upheld by the volunteer work of its members, while others combine different modalities of volunteering with rented professionals that perform leadership, training and accompaniment roles.

With few exceptions, in this strategic sector of young people, the organizations keep weak (if not inexistent) relationships. There opportunities of interchange are limited, as well as the ones to make connections and therefore, to learn from the experiences. Their labours tend to focus on the local and scantily on the regional and international dimension. This situation inhibits the generation of bonds, sensitivities and initiatives that will contribute, from young people themselves, to the development of regional integration. The Portal gives information of networks, groups and juvenile movements, as well as documentation and activities related to the subject, making a contribution in order for them to have greater visibility and with the intention of promoting bigger interrelations among organizations.