CAMMINI MINIMI: il percorso più efficace per generare un cambiamento sostenibile. Erasmus Project

Project Title

CAMMINI MINIMI: il percorso più efficace per generare un cambiamento sostenibile.

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

CAMMINI MINIMI is a project co-financed by the Erasmus Plus – Capacity Building in the Field of Youth program, which saw 6 partners involved in strengthening relations between European and African non-profit youth organizations. For two years, partners from Italy, Belgium, Kenya, Mozambique, Turkey and the Democratic Republic of Congo have worked to build strategic capacities, an e-learning platform and an innovative network of young people and non-profit organizations in the North and the South of the world, active in the youth sector within which to create synergies and social innovation, as well as strategies for decentralization of policies designed and implemented by young people.CAMMINI MINIMI project aimed to promote the cooperation between Europe and Africa in the field of youth and explore the potential of youth work in order to enhance youth organizations’capacity to implement development programs by establishing effective management and administrative system. In order to promote this objective, CAMMINI MINIMI project aimed to:- strengthen networking, designing and building a new network organization, a development virtual office in which the human resources of partner organizations will collaborate in the definition and management of development projects with a view to filiera.- promote the social recognition of the interventions made by young people and their reference organizations- strengthen the management and technical expertise of staff and non-profit organizations active in the youth field- accompany the organizational and managerial growth of such organizations- develop the capacity of youth organizations to generate functional economic resources for institutional activity- producing educational content that can be disclosed to third sector organizations in the youth field on a larger scale.Were involved youth workers participants with few opportunity in the activities of the project both through the participation in the transnational training events and through their participation in the e-learning course that the project developed. These youth workers applied the knowledge obtained through their participation in the training events with their activities organizations. The consortium was coordinated by PASSI Società Cooperativa. The partners from the African Countries were youth organizations that were willing to build their capacity to support youth exchanges and also to support the youth in their local community. The European partners include youth organizations who want design and implement global projects and who have experience in project management, communication campaigns and fundraising as well as the management and selection of volunteers. In line with the objectives the following activities were realized: 1 transnational seminar in Italy, 3 capacity building training courses (Mozambique, RDC and Kenya), 1 Capacity Building Toolkit (an handbook and a digital platform that promotes virtual collaboration and hosts an e-learning course) and 1 Mobility of Youth Worker in Italy. The participants were involved in different training on: Project Management and Design, Financial Management, Volunteer Management, Fundraising strategy, Communication and social media, Multicultural and M&E, using different approaches and method like Theater of the oppressed techniques, theater-dance technique, focus group, energiser, role play, group challenge, learning by doing, GOPP method).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 142711,77 Eur

Project Coordinator

PASSI SOCIETA COOPERATIVA & Country: IT

Project Partners

• DYNAMO INTERNATIONAL ASBL
• FONDATION PEDIATRIQUE DE KIMBONDO
• YASAR UNIVERSITESI
• ASSOCIACAO KUWUKA JDA – JUVENTUDE DESENVOLVIMENTO E ADVOCACIA AMBIENTAL
• VOLUNTEER ACTION FOR CHANGE KENYA