[Seminar] Next steps of youth policy development in EaP

Building bridges

Mmhhhh.. Real bridges…

…(real) bridge between EU Presidency Eastern partnership youth forums in Lithuania (October, 2013)

and Latvia (February, 2015) and provides space to reflect on the results of forums and transform them

into strategies and policy actions..

different youth policy stakeholders

Summing up the learning outcomes strategic development plans

advocacy plans

aims- strengthen cooperation of different stakeholders in

each participating country;

- create Baltic+EaP regional vision for youth policy and youth participation development;

- empower national youth councils (NYC) and NGOs in EaP region to cooperate and develop a common

vision on youth issues in the region and civil society development gaining good practices from Lithuania

and Latvia;

Research and analysisPolicy developmentCapacity building and trainingAdvocacy and communication work

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Experience with EaP region

• study on Youth participation in the democratic changes in Eastern Partnership countries;

http://issuu.com/mariusulozas/docs/eap_youth_participation_study_final

• Facilitation of Eastern Europe and Caucasus project group with European Youth Forum, aiming to strengthen cooperation of youth NGOs and National Youth Councils within EECA region and with the rest of Europe;

• Contribution to the development of national youth policy strategy in Georgia & 2012 January – February Consulting 18 Georgian municipalities on local youth policy, youth work development.

• Moderation of Polish EU Presidency Youth Conference, which had priority on Eastern Partnership countries;

• Moderation of Eastern partnership forums in 2013 in Kaunas and 2015 in Riga

• Cooperation with SALTO Eastern Europe and Caucasus resource center;

• Direct work with National youth councils in Georgia, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Belarus;

• Regional youth bodies and organizations.

• Run capacity-building training for staff of Georgian Ministry of justice on the topics of Youth work and youth psychology;

• Run several capacity-building trainings for youth-wings of political parties in Ukraine and Belarus

• 2014, December. UNFPA Senior expert to support “Youth Index” development in Moldova

• 2014 - 2015 Armenia. Developing evidence-based and participatory youth policy in Gyumri, Armenia. Conducting youth research, creating proposals for youth policy improvement, publication.

• To be continued…

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