Youth Civic Education and Community Participation - YCECP(2010-2011) Georgia February, 2011
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:
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