Supporting the Development of Youth Policy on Municipal Level in Georgia Erasmus Project

Project Title

Supporting the Development of Youth Policy on Municipal Level in Georgia

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 neighbouring and enlargement countries

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

Long-term democratic and socio-economic development of Youth is a significant asset for Georgia. Youth age is an important period during which biological and psychological growth and development of individuals and their integration into the society takes place. During this period, young people try to develop skills and abilities in order to play their roles across various areas of the public life without hindrance, and to fully realize their potential.Taking into account the best practices existing at the European level the Georgian National Youth Policy regulates a wide range of issues related to the development of persons of 14-29 years of age with the joint efforts of state agencies, the youth, the civil society, the private sector and international and local organizations.Local self-governances should be actively engaged in the development and implementation of youth policy. However, the representatives of these institutions do not possess required knowledge and experience to develop and implement municipal youth policy, which significantly hinders youth policy implementation in Georgia. Also youth workers and local youth lack significantly competences to contribute to youth development at local level and to cooperate constructively with municipal structures.Thus, the proposal “Supporting the Development of Youth Policy on Municipal Level in Georgia” aims to build sustainable capacities for youth participation at local level in Georgia via piloting a capacity building programme for municipal youth workers, youth and youth workers working in CSOs in 6 Georgian municipalities alongside the strategic framework for youth policy development in Georgia.Accordingly, the proposal`s objectives are the following:- To increase the competences of municipal youth workers, youth workers working in CSOs and of young people to design and participate in inclusive decision-making processes on youth issues at local level in Georgia- To strengthen institutional structures and cross-sectoral cooperation between non-governmental CSOs and governmental bodies for youth participation at municipal level in Georgia- To enhance the availability and accessibility educational resources relevant for continuous learning of governmental and non-governmental youth workersThe project is composed of three components which include activities to achieve the project objectives.- Component 1 – Educational Programmes for Competences development of key stakeholders for municipal youth work- Component 2 – Creating sustainable structures for municipal youth work- Component 3 – Educational Resource DevelopmentThe project will develop – as its main result – a blueprint for capacity building of municipal youth work that will via the Georgian Ministry for Sport and Youth Affairs be mainstreamed to all Georgian municipalities by integrating the developed educational materials and approaches to municipal youth work into the national strategy for municipal youth work.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 144078,32 Eur

Project Coordinator

LEGAL ENTITY OF PUBLIC LAW YOUTH AGENCY & Country: GE

Project Partners

• NACIONALINE JAUNIMO REIKALU KOORDINATORIU ASOCIACIJA
• STOWARZYSZENIE NA RZECZ POWOLANIA RADY MLODZIEZY RZECZYPOSPOLITEJ POLSKIEJ