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The Council of Europe programme “Participatory Youth Policy” is successfully implemented in Ukraine for civil servants and local self-government officials

During February and June 2024, trainers of the first educational and practical programme of the Council of Europe “Participatory Youth Policy” implemented 13 professional development programmes on the basis of the Model General Short-Term Programme of Professional Development “Participatory Youth Policy”. 397 civil servants, local self-government officials, scientists and teachers working with youth at the local and regional level have already developed their competencies. The trainings were held in Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Khmelnytskyi, Chernihiv oblasts in co-operation with the subjects of the provision of educational services in the field of professional training (providers): the Higher School of Public Administration, the Vinnytsia Regional Training Centre, the Zhytomyr Regional Training Centre, the Poltava Regional Training Centre, the Rivne Regional Training Centre, the Sumy Regional Centre for Advanced Training, Khmelnytskyi Regional Training Centre, Leonid Yuzkov Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law, the Chernihiv Regional Centre for Advanced Training, and Chernihiv Institute of Information, Business and Law of ZVO “MNTU”.

The purpose of the Model programme is to increase the level of professional competencies of civil servants and local self-government officials to ensure youth participation in the formation and implementation of youth policy, taking into account the standards and approaches of the Council of Europe.

An educational and practical programme is implemented from November 2023 to August 2024 by the Council of Europe Project “Youth for Democracy in Ukraine: Phase III” will be in co-operation with the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Association of Youth Councils. Within the framework of the programme, a training manual was developed, based on which training for trainers was conducted, a series of videos of youth participation practices were filmed, mentoring and expert support to the trainers team in the preparation and implementation of training at the regional and local levels is being provided.

The project “Youth for Democracy in Ukraine: Phase III” is implemented within the framework of the Council of Europe Action Plan for Ukraine 2023-2026 and is based on the results and experience of the projects “Youth for Democracy in Ukraine” in 2020-2022. The project will expand the systematic impact by strengthening youth participation policies and youth work during the war and in the post-war context, taking into account the specific needs of young people.

The project “Youth for Democracy in Ukraine: Phase III” highlights the importance of the Council of Europe's Youth Sector Strategy 2030 and reflects the National Strategy of State Youth Policy until 2030, the State Target Social Programme "Youth of Ukraine" 2021-2025.

The project encourages youth policy stakeholders 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.