yfj youth work working group presentation at #lookbeyond, macedonia, june 2014
TRANSCRIPT
In the past: Secretary General for SDY
Estonia, Head of Youth Policy for
Estonian NYC, Chief Expert on Youth
Participation for the Estonian Youth
Work Centre, Estonian representative
in UBC and BSSSC youth policy
networks, Chairman of the Supervisory
Board for Estonian NYC
Today: member of the European Youth
Forum Youth Work Working Group
GerdTarand
YFJWGYW
Strategic priorities 2013-2018
The Youth Forum works to empower
young people to participate actively in
society to improve their own lives by
representing and advocating their needs
and interest and those of their
organisations.
During the next 75 minutes
• Some information on the YFJ
• Information on the YFJ Youth Work
WG
• Information on the Draft youth work
policy paper
• Discussion on the core subjects in
the youth work policy paper
Strategic priorities 2013-2018
As the platform of NYC and IYNGO in Europe, we
believe that youth organisations are the tool
through which we empower, encourage, involve,
represent, reach out and support young people.
Active young citizens constitute the backbone of
any democratic society. However, young people
continue to suffer the consequences of the
unprecedented economic, social, ecological and
political crises.
Strategic priorities 2013-2018
To overcome these challenges, the Forum will strive towards the following goals:
• Greater youth participation
• Stronger youth organisations
• Youth autonomy and inclusion
Strategic priorities 2013-2018
In order to achieve these goals the Platform aims, by 2018, to:
• Strengthen its position as an agenda-setter on youth affairs
• Base its work on a rights-based approach
• Further empower Member Organisations and increase their ownership of the Platform
Strong youth organisation
Objectives:
- Promote the financial recognition and the capacity building of youth organisations at European and global levels, with young people co-managing the programmes and policies affecting their lives.
- Expected result: Sustained funding and training for activities and every-day function of youth organisations provided by institutions and partners.
Strong youth organisation
Objectives:
- Support the process of establishment, legal andfinancial recognition of National Youth Councils throughcontinued support, especially in the regions of South-Eastern Europe (SEE), Eastern Europe and Caucasus(EEC), and in the countries most affected by theeconomic crisis.
- Expected result: More national youth councils legallyrecognised and sustainably funded in Europe.
Strong youth organisation
- Advocate for the recognition of the impact of youth work and volunteering in society.
Expected result: Concrete steps in the implementation of the Council of the EU 2010 Resolution on Youth Work and of the European Charter on the Rights and Responsibilities of Volunteers, and recognition of the Volunteer Time Contribution as eligible co-funding in European programmes.
Strong youth organisation
- Enable and empower youth organisations to reach out to, createsafe environments and include more diverse young peopleoutside of their membership, with special attention tomarginalized and disadvantaged youth.
Expected result: Qualitative growth of youth organisations bydiversifying their membership.
Critical Success Factor: more recognition and more and bettertargeted administrative funding for Youth organisations, throughthe development of new and current European Union andCouncil of Europe financial programmes and other instruments(legal basis).
The Youth Work Working Group
Objectives :
Strengthening the capacity of youth organisations to work on relevant issues and reach out more young people and partners
Supporting the establishment of new national youth councils and capacity building of existing ones
Strengthening the competences of youth organisations on youth policy development
Being involved in supporting new NYC and the sustainability trainings
2013:
• Help the revision of the policy paper on youth work
• Help to collect the youth laws
• Give input to the NYC sustainability training
• Give input to the training on youth policy
• Give input in NYC sustainability training in some countries
The activities
2014:
• Work on the policy paper on youth work
• Give input in NYC sustainability training in some countries
• Give input to the NYC sustainability training
• Give input to the training on youth policy
• Develop set of recommendations based on the analysis of the legislation.
• Help to spread the research on the impact of volunteering and youth work
• Spread the visuals and happenings showing the impact of youth work
The activities
• Be an expert
• Input for the policy paper
• Be a bridge
• Between Your Organisation and YFJ for the calls, theresearch outcomes, the recommendations…
• Be a supporter
• Share these ideas further and promote active youthorganisations. Let the YFJ know about the situation inyour country.
Your mission today
By developing a policy paper on youth work theForum aims to build coherent approach to thetopic, including all its aspects from actors andespecially role of youth organisations andneed for capacity building to recognition ofyouth work and needed policy demands. TheYouth Forum seeks an as engaging and openprocess as possible for the development ofthe paper which also includes input from externalexperts on the topic (you!).
A new Policy Paper on Youth Work
YFJ has been working on the policy papersince June 2013, conducted an onlinesurvey amongst its MOs and discussed thedrafts on events like this one.
The aim is to adopt the paper at the nextCOMEM/GA.
A new Policy Paper on Youth Work
• Purpose
• Impact in the society and in the youth sector/employment opportunities of young people
• Actors
• Stakeholders
• Recognition
• Capacity building
• Funding
A new Policy Paper on Youth Work
Three chapters:
YW and the individual
Skills gained
From childhood to adulthood
YW and the community
Impact on society
Recognition of YW
Actors
Capacity building of YOs
Youth Work Capacity building: a process
Building strong youth organisations in Europe: European Youth Forum’s approach
Partnerships within the YO
A new Policy Paper on Youth Work
Now – it’s your turn!
3 core topics in the Policy Paper:
1.What impact does youth work have on the individual and the society?
2.How should the Youth Forum advocate for the recognition of youth work?
3.And how should we advocate for increased funding for youth organisations?
A new Policy Paper on Youth Work
Keep an eye on the Youth Policy Watch newsletter:
http://www.youthforum.org/news/youth-policy-watch/
THANK YOU!
Gerd [email protected]