About Reto Juvenil Internacional

Youth Challenge Costa Rica throughout its more than 15 years of work, has defined its services as providing a space in which local and international volunteers can find a way to effectively participate that enriches their personal experience, and at the same time, contribute to the improvement of the quality of life in communities within our country and outside.

To achieve this important objective, we have designed strategies that permit us to improve our knowledge and involvement, as well as our work, within the communities.

- Defining a ‘Poverty Map’ of a country using socio-economic indicators derived from recent studies.

- Implementation of a Results Monitoring System.

- Post-project field work in order to evaluate and follow up on the work we have done in communities that we have supported.

We have also established cooperation agreements with government entities or other organizations, that allow us to establish institutional support networks, therefore contributing to the sustainability of our projects.

Some examples are:

a. Dirección Nacional de Desarrollo Comunitario (DINADECO)
b. National Community Development Directorate
c. Departamento de Acueductos Rurales. Compañía Nacional de Acueductos y Alcantarillados
d. Rural Aqueduct department of the National Aqueduct and Drainage Company
e. United Nations Development Program- Small grants Program
f. Countrywide National Parks System, Ministry of the Environment and Energy (MINAE)
g. Association for the Preservation of Flora and Fauna (APREFLOFAS)
h. Institute for Women’s Studies (IEM), National Autonomous University of Costa Rica (UNA)


Youth Challenge Costa Rica has participated consistently in more than 150 environmental and community projects, providing an opportunity for approximately 1800 volunteers from different countries to participate.

This has placed Youth Challenge Costa Rica in a position to celebrate cultural diversity and to contribute to sustainable human development, always with the firm intention to continue being the living expression of solidarity between all members of the global village.