This is Capacity Building in the field of Youth project named #YouthToo. It is run by 10 partners: 8 NGOs, 1 European NGO and 1 public body. We are: NGO Prima Montenegro, Youth for Social Changes Albania, BRAVO Bosnia and Herzegovina, WalkTogether Bulgaria, Eesti People to People Estonia, Hellenic Youth Participation Greece, Mine Vaganti International Italy, Volunteers Center Skopje FYR Macedonia, Red Line Serbia, Javni zavod Mladi zmaji (Public institution Young Dragons) Slovenia. Project will last 18 months, from 1. August 2019. till 31. January 2021. Topic is prevention of gender based violence and violence in love-relationships of young people. The overall goal of the project is fostering cooperation among youth workers in the European countries, in order to exchange knowledge, experience and good practice in the field of prevention of violence in youth relationships and gender-based violence. Cooperation and experience exchange among youth workers from civil society organizations and relevant institutions will contribute to a) raising awareness about the problem and prevention of violence, b) improvement of competences among young professionals and c) empowerment of young generations exposed or vulnerable to violence. In the long run, youth-led organizations will be encouraged to provide more critical contribution in decision-making processes at European level, by advocating for youth-sensitive policies. Specific objectives (SO) of the project are:SO1: Strengthening capacity of youth workers to address gender-based violence and violence in youth relationships. SO2: Mapping and promotion of the best examples of public and civil services and IT solutions available in partner countries for prevention and provision of adequate response to dating violence and gender- based violence among youth. SO3: Learning, developing and testing the new youth-friendly tools for organization of advocacy and raising awareness campaign in both offline and online civic space.SO4: Prevention of dating and gender-based violence by informing, educating and empowering young people across the Europe. Project includes mobility and capacity building activities. Mobility activities are preparation for CB campaign and there will be 3 trainings and 1 study visit for youth workers. During trainings 120 participants will learn about gender inequality and violence among young partners both: straight and LGBTQI, as well as how to run on line and off line campaign by creating posts, visuals and short videos. During campaign we will train 60 young ambassadors in Montenegro to run local campaign and share culture of non-violence. By boosting we plan to reach 2000000 young people from Europe. Products 6 videos, 50 texts, 6500 stickers, Manual about gender based violence in 11 languages, web application with check list and for data collecting. By boosting we expect reach of 2.000.000 youngsters. Campaign will last from 1. May till 31. December 2020.
SO1: Strengthening capacity of youth workers to address gender-based violence and violence in youth relationships. SO2: Mapping and promotion of the best examples of public and civil services and IT solutions available in partner countries for prevention and provision SO3: Learning, developing and testing the new youth-friendly tools for organization of advocacy and raising awareness campaign SO4: Prevention of dating and gender-based violence among youth.
Gender violence appears in the love-relationships of young people but it is taboo, believing that it is easy to be solved. The fact is that partners violence in this period directly regrutes youth into victims in marriage.We chose the prevention approach in youth work as solution. During Sexual and reproductive health E+ we developed this project with Consortium. Project proposal is based of Consortium experience in work with target group.
<< Background >> Gender violence appears in the love-relationships of young people but it is taboo, believing that it is easy to be solved. The fact is that partners violence in this period directly regrutes youth into victims in marriage.We chose the prevention approach in youth work as solution. During Sexual and reproductive health E+ we developed this project with Consortium. Project proposal is based of Consortium experience in work with target group. << Objectives >> SO1: Strengthening capacity of youth workers to address gender-based violence and violence in youth relationships. SO2: Mapping and promotion of the best examples of public and civil services and IT solutions available in partner countries for prevention and provision SO3: Learning, developing and testing the new youth-friendly tools for organization of advocacy and raising awareness campaign SO4: Prevention of dating and gender-based violence among youth. << Implementation >> Capacity building is 20% co funded by Consortium.Capacity building activities with consortium: Kick off and evaluation meetingCapacity building with youth in 10 countries: Online and offline campaign, manual and quiz production, local meetings, Ambassadors training in MNEMobility activities: 3 trainings for youth workers (Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Greece) and Online study visit in BulgariaAll activities are delivered in non formal education methods. << Results >> R1 180 youth workers educated to work on prevention of violence, by conducting comprehensive raising awareness and campaigning initiatives. R2 60 young people in Montenegro became ambassadors of non violence R3 2000000 people reached by media campaign R4 quiz developed to raise awareness about gender and other violence types in 10 languages R5 1 proffessional video produced and broadcasted in 10countries R6 5 short videos and 50 texts recorded by TC participants for campaign