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What is the Dream our G–>Local Movement Project?

It’s a long-term project that aims to reflect on our own practices regarding accessibility and inclusion and find ways to improve our movement. Together with other organisations working with underserved youth and children, we will support a young generation of youth workers to develop accessible and inclusive approaches to engage in youth work locally, nationally and internationally.  In other words, this project aims to make our movement more accessible and inclusive for everyone!

 

What are the objectives?

  • Identify the ways in which youth work is inaccessible and unattractive on local, national and international levels by identifying whose voices are not represented and the reason that it is difficult to engage and retain volunteers 
  • Strengthen collaborations and partnerships between youth organisations to share good practices across the sector and promote inclusive and sustainable youth engagement. 
  • Deliver a training to young people that builds an understanding of the relevance of local activism in addressing global issues and enable youth to facilitate global to local activities. 
  • Support young people in implementing a g-local campaign to widen their organisational reach to engage underserved youth.  
  • Deliver a capacity building workshop to develop and publish a creative toolkit on accessible and inclusive g-local volunteering. 

Who are the project partners?

There are seven partner organisations from four of our regions sending delegates to the activities. From Africa we have Youth Advocates Ghana and Girls Excel (Cameroon). From Latin America we have Juventud País Solidario (Paraguay) and Los Cachorros (Peru). From Asia we have Center for Youth Advocacy and Networking (Philippines) and Yayasan Kelompok Kerja Sosial Perkotaan-KKSP Foundation (Indonesia). And finally, from Europe we have ELIX (Greece) as a coordinating organisation.

All other organisations are invited to join and contribute to the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), Peace education toolkit for youth workers and Building Bridges closing conference which will be taking place in August 2020.

 

What are we doing?

The heart of this project is two training courses for youth workers – in peace education and in inclusion and dialogue – and the publication of a MOOC on the theme. Youth workers will plan their own local and regional projects to disseminate the project outcomes and outputs during this project.

The project is also providing capacity building in project and financial management for the leadership of partner organisations and representatives from local authorities of the partner countries in order for them to support the youth workers’ localised projects.

What are the activities and meetings in the project?

Kick-off meeting

Online Kick-off meeting of our project was organised on 27-28 October with the participation of responsible persons from all the project partners. In this two-day webinar all partner organisations came together to plan and shape the project.

Building Bridges Toolkit development workshop

Experts in peace education from all partner organisations came together to create Building Bridges toolkit on peace, dialogue and inclusion. Building Bridges toolkit was developed collectively with the partners starting from an analysis of the situation report and by using the expertise of our participants. The workshop focused on regional perspectives on peace and dialogue. Our partner KKSP hosted the workshop in Medan, Indonesia on 3-10 February 2019.

Capacity building for local and regional projects 

One member of the leadership of the partner organisation and one person from a local authority or decision-maker in the community came together for five days to learn about how to plan and implement localised and regional projects and received training on Project Cycle Management, funding and fundraising, crisis management and intercultural learning. The training was hosted by our partner ELIX in Athens, Greece on 11-16 June 2019.

Youth worker training on peace education 

In this this training, youth workers from the partner organisations  learnt about peace education and how to put it into practice in localised contexts. The training was  a combination of theory, practice and planning, in the Latin American context where peace processes was analysed. The training was hosted by our partner Juventud País Solidario in Asunción, Paraguay on 18-25 August 2019.

Youth worker training on inclusion and dialogue 

Girls Excel will host the second youth worker training in Cameroon on 20-27 January 2020.  This training will focus on how to foster dialogue between conflicting communities and exploring how youth work can stregthen inclusive societies and combat radicalisation. Participants will also discover more on how to organise regional projects on inclusion and dialogue.

Building Bridges closing conference 

In this conference, we will share the results of our project’s key learning points, case studies and outputs with EU partners, institutions and other local stakeholders. All our member organisations are invited to join our closing conference.

What kind of outputs will we have in the end?

Situation and good practices report 

This report will explore the perspectives of youth workers working in peace and human rights agenda in four continents Africa, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Also, it will review existing literature on youth work, peace education and human rights education.

Building Bridges Toolkit

The toolkit will focus on how youth work can promote peace through education, inclusive societies and challenge conflict, with a regional perspective. We will develop it collectively with all partners, the results of the situation report and feedback from youth workers.

MOOC

We will use online open innovative ICT tools to multiply and share good practice with wider sector from the Building Bridges project. This unique learning experience will promote quality non-formal education and human rights education online.

At the end of the project, all of our outputs will be available on our website for free to support peace education work of youth workers!

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