The Youth Cafe’s  Africa Youth Development Index (AYDI) is a collaboration between The Youth Cafe and other youth-serving organizations across the globe to measure, benchmark, and monitor youth development and access of young people to education, training, employment, health, and wellbeing.

The Youth Cafe’s AYDI focuses on indicators like The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita; the Human Development Index (HDI); the GINI; literacy rates; Drug use; fund allocation; minimum wage; skilled labor; Internet users; employment ratio; NEET (a  young person who is not in education, employment, or training).

Other indicators include agro-produce, livestock, market exploitation and value addition; access to finance, capital and grants; conducive trade and business environment; health and well-being; social protection; sports and creative economy; youth representations and inclusion in government and its agencies; systematic coordination of the youth function; culture of civic citizenship by the youth; and public participation among others.