Abstract

• This research focuses on the relationship between youth development training of the Myanmar Medical Association in Yangon and community development of the 126th ward, East Dagaon Township from an anthropological point of view. The aim is to explore how the youth collaboration from Youth Development Programme affects the community through the processes of development activities of youth engagement and contribution. The specific objectives of this research are: to describe the activities of the youth development programme, to illustrate how it benefits the development of community member and to elicit community responses to the youth development programme. The ethnographic, qualitative field research was conducted by means of Group Interview (GI), Key Informant Interviews (KII) and Direct Observation (DO). This paper found that the youth development programme improved the youths and the educational, health, and socio- cultural conditions of the people in the study area.