Advocacy on Human Rights Aproach and Gender Equity Gender Street Based Youth work and networking Action in AMERICAS Erasmus Project

Project Title

Advocacy on Human Rights Aproach and Gender Equity Gender Street Based Youth work and networking Action in AMERICAS

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The main purpose of the project is to improve the socio-educational action of care and accompaniment of young people in a situation of vulnerability. The phenomenon of social exclusion continues to worsen, in Europe and Latin America, and situations of violation of the rights of the most vulnerable populations are increasing, particularly among young people living on the streets, who are often isolated and far from socio-educational services. The numbers of street children in partner countries remain very high due to the high level of poverty and extreme poverty. Although this scourge is greater among boys and young men in all partner countries, girls suffer different consequences from being on the streets, such as rape, abuse, exploitation, unwanted pregnancies and abortions, while boys are linked to armed groups, drug dealing and other anti-social behaviour. For this reason, it is urgent to work on street education from a gender perspective that seeks to give differential attention to girls and boys according to their gender conditions, with liberating and non-sexist pedagogies. The partners in the AMERICAS project are trying to work out together local responses to increasingly global forms of exclusion and the project aims to promote an accompaniment of marginalized groups through the Methodology of Street Education, that seeks to find the young person in the place where he or she lives and to build an educational relationship based on trust and that favours emancipation. Giving this methodology a rights-based approach and considering these young people as subjects of rights and not just objects of those rights is a message of political advocacy that the AMERICAS project wants to reinforce. The consortium plans to implement an international strategy that will lead to the following specific goals:- To strengthen, through training and exchange of good practices between peers, the skills and competences of hundreds of youth workers around the world in the approach of rights and gender equality in Street Education (micro level).- To strengthen the local, regional and international networks of street educators who use the rights and gender equality approach in street education (meso level)- Carry out advocacy and awareness-raising actions that should lead decision-makers in partner countries to strengthen, in the long term, the legal framework for the recognition of the rights and gender equality approach in street education (macro level).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 120222,4 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASOCIACION NAVARRA NUEVO FUTURO & Country: ES

Project Partners

• CORPORACION EDUCATIVA COMBOS COMUNIDADES EDUCATIVAS DE BASE
• ASOCIACION COALICION SEMBRADORES DE VIDA
• CENTRO TRANSITORIO DE CAPACITACIONY EDUCACION RECREATIVA EL CARACOL AC
• C A I – CONVERSAS ASSOCIACAO INTERNACIONAL
• ASSOCIACAO DE EDUCADORES SOCIAISDE MARINGUA AESMAR
• ASOCIACION MI RANCHO
• DYNAMO INTERNATIONAL ASBL