The Council of Europe Project "Youth for Democracy in Ukraine: Phase III" in co-operation with the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine has launched a long-term programme "Access to Youth Work" for newly established NGOs working with young people.
Ten NGOs participate in the Programme:
- Center for Social Transformations TENET
- Space of Public Initiatives
- Go Byond
- The Youth of Olexandria
- NACHYNNYA
- TOLKOVI
- COME OUT TO PLAY
- YOUCHANGE
- Youth Sails
- Creative space "Kredents"
On 17 October 2023, the first meeting of the expert team and teams of NGOs took place online. The meeting was attended by Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine Vladyslav Yatsuk, who stressed the importance of co-operation between the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine and the Council of Europe project "Youth for Democracy in Ukraine", in particular in building the capacity of newly created NGOs working with young people.
The Access to Youth Work program will be implemented until October 2024 and provides training for teams of NGOs, mentoring and expert support for the development of project proposals and the implementation of open youth work projects.
The Project «Youth for Democracy in Ukraine: Phase III» is carried out in the framework of the Council of Europe Action Plan for Ukraine 2023-2026 and was built on the results and experience of the projects “Youth for Democracy in Ukraine” in 2020-2022. The Project will extend the systematic influence by strengthening participatory youth policies and reinforce youth work in the war and in a post war context, taking into account the specific needs of young people.
The project emphasizes the importance of the Council of Europe Youth Sector Strategy until 2030 and reflects the National Strategy of State Youth Policy until 2030, the State Target Social Programme “Youth of Ukraine” 2021-2025.
The project will encourage interested stakeholders of youth policy in Ukraine to implement and disseminate the Recommendations of the Committee of Ministers to member states: on the access of youth from disadvantaged neighbourhoods to social rights, CM/Rec(2015)3; on young people's access to rights, CM/Rec(2016)7; on youth work, CM/Rec(2017)4; on Roma youth participation CM/Rec(2023)4; on protecting youth civil society and young people, and supporting their participation in democratic processes CM/Rec(2022)6.
News, resources of the Council of Europe in the field of youth and open calls for participation in the project’s activities can be found here.
