The project idea is to empower youngsters from India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nepal, the Philippines and Vietnam to become active actors in their local communities and to enrich their skills and abilities in policy making, decision taking, lobbing and advocacy, conflict resolution, active civic participation, strategic planning and management. The project will be implemented in 6 phases: I International trainings: A series of 3 international trainings will be held in Thailand, Greece and Vietnam covering the above-mentioned topics of the project. Each training will be attended by 2 representatives per partner, 2 international trainers and 1 local facilitator.II Job-shadowing: 1 job-shadower per partner will be sent for 3 weeks to Asian or European country where they will exchange knowledge and will experience the process of civic engagement in all level of social life. Each partner will host representatives from one project partner and respectively will send one representative to another partner country. A structured programme including not only meetings but trainings and counseling sessions will be elaborated for each job-shadower depending also on his/ her interest and fields.III Online Learning Platform and webinars: 10 webinars will be scheduled each month for representatives in the international training courses, the national training courses and all other young people and stakeholders who have not had the chance to attend a project training but are interested in the topic. Webinars will allow as many interested stakeholders as possible to benefit from the project activities and the partners’ expertise. IV National trainings and setting the LEAD Youth Councils in each partner country. After taking part in the first 3 phases of the project each partner will organise 3 two-day national trainings for its members to build their capacity on topics of importance for the community development subject to the current project.Each national training will gather 20 local participants. As a result a youth LEAD Council will be established in each partner country. V Local community actions. At least one community action will be planned and implemented by the members LEAD Youth Councils. The community action should have an impact over more than 250 representatives of the local community.VI International LEAD Platform: The event will be held in Bulgaria for 7 days as 2 representatives per partner will attend. The first 3 days the participants will meet and share experience with youngsters from 3 Bulgarian universities (Sofia, Blagoevgrad and Plovdiv). The next 3 days an event will be organised offering to various stakeholders workshops, information sessions, partnership building space and sessions sharing social innovation practices .A press conference will be held. A one-day evaluation meeting with a focus on future cooperation will be organised.
The project idea was to empower youngsters from India, Thailand, Nepal, the Philippines, and Vietnam to become active actors in their local communities and to enrich their skills and abilities in policy-making and decision-taking, lobbing and advocacy, conflict resolution, active civic participation, strategic planning, and management. The project was planned to be implemented in 6 phases: Ist Phase - International trainings: A series of 3 international trainings were planned to be held in Nepal, Vietnam, and Greece covering the above-mentioned topics of the project. Unfortunately, the training in Greece could not be implemented duetoCOVID -19 pandemic. The two trainings in Nepal and Vietnam were attended by 23 civil society members, including representatives of the partner organisations, 2 international trainers, and 1 local facilitator.IInd Phase - Job-shadowing: The initial idea was that 1 job-shadower per partner would be sent for 3 weeks to an Asian or European country where they would exchange knowledge and could experience the process of civic engagement at all level of social life. Each partner was about to host representatives from one project partner and respectively send one representative to another partner country. Unfortunately, not all planned job-shadowing took place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A structured programme including not only meetings but trainings and counseling sessions was elaborated for each job-shadower depending also on his/ her interest and fields.IIIrd Phase - Online Learning Platform and webinars: An online platform was established and 3 webinars were held for the participants of the international and national training courses, youth LEAD councils and young people and stakeholders who have not had the chance to attend a project training but are interested in the topic. The webinars allowed as many interested stakeholders as possible to benefit from the project activities and the partners’ expertise. IVth Phase - National trainings and setting of the LEAD Youth Councils in each partner country. Some of the partners organised national trainings for its members to build their capacity on topics of importance for the community development subject to the current project. Some partners were prevented to organise the national training courses due to the pandemic situationEach national training gathered more than 20 local participants. A youth LEAD Council was established in each partner country. Vth Phase - Local community actions. At least one community action was planned and implemented by the members LEAD Youth Councils. Each community action had an impact on more than 250 representatives of the local community.VIth Phase - International LEAD Platform: The event was planned to be held in Bulgaria for 7 days as 2 representatives per partner will attend. The international LEAD Platform was held in Bulgaria. International and Bulgarian participants took in it. It was held in the midst of the pandemic. It was impossible to get all the partners together and to implement it as it was envisaged in the application form. We had to face the force major circumstances and adapt to it. IIC decided to implement the last envisaged activity in Bulgaria and to involve international and local participants.