“Yes,We KENya!” contributes to foster cooperation between Europe and Kenya and to promote activities aiming to enhance the quality and recognition of youth work while improving participants' level of competences, to favour their active participation in the society and to provide a response to social challenges. It aims to create a pool of trainers/multipliers able to act as promoters of Non-Formal Education, active citizenship and European democratic values in different contexts. Considering young people as strategic players in the future of society, the purpose of “Yes,WeKENya!” is creating a sustainable cooperation between Africa and Europe in the youth field through activities that will train kenyan, italian and spanish young people. It will also give the chance to young trainers previously trained by AICEM to challenge themselves, multiplying the work previously done and put into practice what learned in “Nio Far-We Are Together”, a project developed by AICEM in 2018 in a welcoming centre in Sardinia and in the area of Casamance (Senegal), of which “Yes, We KENya” represents the follow up. So partner organizations by identifying common needs behind the differences related to their own contexts and related trigger factors, have individuated the necessity to implement a project that could allow young people to be empowered through the acquisition of competences and tools in order to develop effective actions aiming at the promotion NFE tool within their communities. It will facilitate active participation of youth in policy making, raising their awareness about non-formal education as an important tool to fight lack of youth initiative and to provide participative processes.The creation of a pool of trainers, the availability of open sources materials, the network constructed and the creation of a toolkit will make the results durable and sustainable.
In line with the objectives individuated by the Erasmus+ Programme the project aimed to:- Foster cooperation between Europe and Kenya, by promoting participation of youth in the sphere of NFE, which encourages an active role in the society.- Improve the quality and recognition of youth work, by training youth workers as socio-professional figures.- Enhance synergies and complementarities with other education systems, the labour market and society.
Youth participation is a crucial issue:-in Kenya difficulties to access education, unemployment, the lack of social protection and the limited access to civil and political rights are the main causes of discrimination which limits youth participation.-In Europe, despite possibilities to be engaged and participate have increased at different levels, it's still low the number of youth taking the available opportunities: a sense of distrust prevail with a consequent closing towards the society
<< Background >> Youth participation is a crucial issue:-in Kenya difficulties to access education, unemployment, the lack of social protection and the limited access to civil and political rights are the main causes of discrimination which limits youth participation.-In Europe, despite possibilities to be engaged and participate have increased at different levels, it's still low the number of youth taking the available opportunities: a sense of distrust prevail with a consequent closing towards the society << Objectives >> In line with the objectives individuated by the Erasmus+ Programme the project aimed to:- Foster cooperation between Europe and Kenya, by promoting participation of youth in the sphere of NFE, which encourages an active role in the society.- Improve the quality and recognition of youth work, by training youth workers as socio-professional figures.- Enhance synergies and complementarities with other education systems, the labour market and society. << Implementation >> To reach the objectives, the identified activities:Encouraged the use of non-formal learning methods, especially those promoting the acquisition/improvement of competences; the implementation of a TC on NFE and the following events allowed both learning and applying NFE methodology; the use of open and flexible learning, virtual mobility, open educational resources (OER) and better exploitation of the ITC potential. << Results >> The main results were:-A pool of trainers able to apply competencies to plan concrete actions promoting NFE and HRE tool online and offline to support an active participation.-A video documentary with information about the project, using NFE to spread the message of the project and as well as the results.-A tool kit related to the use of NFE and HRE methodology, with practical examples and an explanation on how to use skills gained to empower youth role in the community.