Ycecp presentation

Youth Civic Education and Community Participation -

YCECP(2010-2011)

Georgia

February, 2011

Project Donors: UNDP Georgia

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania

WV Austria

WV Romania

Georgia

Building a better world for children!

Demands of Modern Youth Culture

Active citizens Collaborators Creators

Leaders of tomorrow

YCECP PROJECT GOAL: Support promotion of responsible citizenship and community participation for youth in Georgia and Romania

Initiators

Project Locations:Kutaisi Batumi Telavi Constanta

Target Groups:

Gender Distribution:

Girls-131 Boys-84

9 National Minorities 14 Socially vulnerable children

15 Children with disabilities

5 Children living and working on the streets

Over 200 Youth of age 14-18, including:

3 Internally displaced students

28 children from

villages

3 children in conflict with the law

Project Partners:

Applying Romanian best practices to the Georgian reality

World Vision Romania

Romanian Youth organizations

Telavi, Batumi & Kutaisi Youth Centers

Children’s Federation of Georgia

Identifying local needs & contextualizing/ best practices

Fostering involvement of beneficiaries of both projects in cross-cutting activities

How do YOUTH benefit from the Project?

Skills for 21st Century

Non-formal learningLearning to Learn

Conceptual learningForeign languages

Critical thinking

Problem-solving

Greater participationGreater involvement

Intercultural &Global awareness

Improved social & civil

competences

Collaborative skills Communication skills

CreativityTeamwork

Self direction

Project Progress:

6 Youth Councils (YCs) in Georgia and 1 Youth Initiative Group (YIG) in Romania

Youth Councils’ directors elected and YCs’ ToRs developed

Civic education curriculum

Essay contest

Study visit of YCs representatives to Romania Youth Initiatives and Projects

Romanian Partners visit to Georgia

International Exchange Visit

Trainings in…

Focus group discussionsAdvocacy

Leadership

Human rights

Healthy lifestyle

Volunteerism

Conflict resolution

PromotingACTIVE

CITIZENSHIP

Lessons Learned Idea of “Including Excluded” helped promotion of the project with different stakeholders

Early coordination with the Children’s Federation of Georgia would have resulted in better cooperation in the framework of the UNDP funded projects

More incentives should be proposed for teachers, so they would support civic engagement of students in the activities

Put more emphasis on volunteerism (promising practices in Romania and EVS)

Build bridges with regional youth initiatives (Armenia, Azerbaijan), connect them with Romanian and other EU youth initiatives

(Environment, Gender, disability, etc.)

Enhance Community mobilization through advocacy initiatives

Enhance life skills (LLL) and employment opportunities for marginalized youth

Establish district councils (Romanian Experience of county councils) in Georgia to ensure participation of youth in decision making process

Confidence/peace building through social media among Georgian and Abkhazian youth (Abkhazia Programme)

Ideas for future:

Thank You!