Advocacy for Gender Equality and Active Citizenship Erasmus Project

Project Title

Advocacy for Gender Equality and Active Citizenship

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The proposal «Advocacy for Gender Equality and Active Citizenship» aims to underpin gender equality in youth work inside and out of the European Union while empowering young women through human rights education to become change catalyst and activist for fundamental rights. It is a youth project bringing in 3 EU countries (UK, BG and CY) and 1 Central Asian state (KG) where gender issues need support and further consideration, especially among adolescents raising up in either conservative post-communist societies or multicultural yet heavily infiltrated by misogynist implicit bias.The proposal targets young women and men aged 18+ whose future is decided today and who can be the agents of change in the long run should we plant the seed of tolerant and inclusive societies today. More specifically, the project is to adapt and produce a set of training curriculum for gender equality and empowerment of young women using Open Educational Recourses translated into diverse European languages in addition to investment into capacity building of 20 youth workers and teachers to run and support gender local actions in partner countries. The partnership will pilot an online module for NGOs on benevolent sexism to further raise awareness on the importance of language and implicit bias in verbal interaction. The proposal envisages a youth exchange of 40 young people in Bosteri, Kyrgyzstan to provide space for intercultural learning and bridge the transformation of its participants into youth ambassadors for social inclusion, equality and diversity. The exchange will also serve as a foundation for piloting 4 locally specific Youth Gender Equality Action Plans in each partner organization and its associates by February 2021 to serve as sustainability of the culture change which will support gender equality and needs of young women in the partners and their communities after the end of the project cycle.The project should reach out to 2000 young people aged 16-30 involved into Local Action Plans attending secondary schools, universities and shelter facilities in partner countries (500 per partner) with a special emphasis on empowering the participation of young girls and women form remote rural areas and areas of lower economic development, with higher rates of unemployment and thus more susceptible to societal gender prejudice. In addition, it will provide insight into gender matters for 4000+ online viewers/visitors to social networks events and publications implemented during the local pilot phase activism.

Project Website

http://advocacyforgender.co.uk/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 133170 Eur

Project Coordinator

VAZMOZHNOSTI BEZ GRANITSI & Country: BG

Project Partners

• INSTITOUTO EREVNON PROMITHEAS
• PUBLIC ASSOCIATION YOUTH MOVEMENT I LOVE KYRGYZSTAN
• MARY SEACOLE HOUSING ASSOCIATION LIMITED