Us and them is a capacity building project involving 4 different organisations from 4 different countries: Maghweb (Italy) Corporacion Amiga Joven (Colombia), Revista Crisis (Argentina) and Movimiento por la Paz, el disarme y la libertad (Spain).The project aims at developing political skills of young people working in the field of youth in Colombia, Argentina, Italy and Spain. In particular the project aims at building specific capacities in the field of bottom-up decisional processes, distributed leadership, cybersecurity, communication and political participation, development of awareness campaigns and peace-building activities in political processes. Indeed the acquirement of these capacities shall enhance youth political participation and it shall give better the quality of youth work in the countries involved. Moreover the project aims at developing networks of youth workers, translating online already existing national youth platforms and connecting these platforms. This objective will be achieved thanks to the development of an online platform. The project envisages to reach the aforementioned objectives thanks to activities based on non-formal methodologies (learn-by-doing, peer learning, world café, mind maps etc.), mobilities of youth workers (training and job shadowing). In particular youth workers are expected to spend two months in doing participatory observation of organisations engaged in activities of communication and of political participation.
G.O. To develop political skills of young people working in the field of youth in the involved countriesS.O. 1 Develop capacities of the young project participants in the field of political participation, communication and cyber security S.O. 2 Create a network of YWs and organisations that has interest in the political situation in their contexts and can carries out advocacy activities S.O. 3 Enhancing leadership skills of YWs engaged in social processes in society and in their organisation
The project was written before 2020, and the socio-political situation now differs profoundly from when it was drafted. Nevertheless, the centrality of political and civic engagement of young people never failed to be relevant for both the Latin-American and European contexts. The project put together organisations working in communication, conflict management and gender issues to exchange methodologies of youth participation to respond to common challenges with safer and innovative practices.
<< Background >> The project was written before 2020, and the socio-political situation now differs profoundly from when it was drafted. Nevertheless, the centrality of political and civic engagement of young people never failed to be relevant for both the Latin-American and European contexts. The project put together organisations working in communication, conflict management and gender issues to exchange methodologies of youth participation to respond to common challenges with safer and innovative practices. << Objectives >> G.O. To develop political skills of young people working in the field of youth in the involved countriesS.O. 1 Develop capacities of the young project participants in the field of political participation, communication and cyber security S.O. 2 Create a network of YWs and organisations that has interest in the political situation in their contexts and can carries out advocacy activities S.O. 3 Enhancing leadership skills of YWs engaged in social processes in society and in their organisation << Implementation >> The project foresaw CBAs and mobilities, altogether the development of outputs. In particular: -1 Training of trainers (16 participants) -1 Training of 5 modules (17 participants) - n.8 Job shadowing mobilities (16 participants) -n.3 project meetings -1 guideline material for cybersecurity -1 Role play game -n.1 Collection of study cases -n.1 Manual of good practices -n.1 Methodology for mapping power abuse -n.1 Interactive platform to report power abuse -n.1 Video on press experiences << Results >> R.1 Increased competencies of participants in the field of active citizenship and political participation; R.2 Increased knowledge in communicative tools for awareness campaigns; R.3 Increased competencies in cyber security for young activists; R.4 Established transcontinental network of YWs and organisations; R.5 Increased impact of the local activities implemented by the organisations involved; R.6 Increased number of young people with a role of responsibilities inside the organisations