From January – June 2023, Femina ry, in partnership with Youth CSOs and educational institutions run a programm “Youth Advocacy Alliance”, which main aim is to create an sustainable “Youth Advocacy Alliance” network that brings together youth, non-governmental youth organisations (CSOs), decision makers of the Nordic & Baltic Sea Region to share experiences and combat joint challenges faced by young people of today in the regions. Also Femina ry aim to raise awareness across youth organisations of the Nordic & Baltic Sea Region about the benefits of youth advocacy and the youth advocacy network.
Target group of the programm is a young people age 16+ interested to became a youth leader or already being such, Civil society youth organisation, experts and youth workers willing to improve own skills and knowledge in the field and gain practical experience in making real changes and supporting structural dialogue by advocating youth interests.
Local workshop and International training sessions
All together 5 step-by-step training sessions (Local workshop and International trainings)
- Local Workshop in each partner country
- Advocacy on Capacity building training – 2-5. February 2023, Narva, Estonia
- Advocacy on Local level – 29 March – 01 April 2023, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Advocacy on National level – 12-15. Aprill 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Advocacy on Regional, EU + International level – 3-6 May 2023, Helsinki, Finland
Local workshop will be conducted by each partner to introduce the programm, to map the existing worries and challenges what young people are facing rights now. Also local workshop will discover the level of skills on concrete themes related with project and their motivation.
Each national youth training session will focus on one of the themes below and other theme more reliable for the country situation:
– Youth capacity and the civil society
– Youth and the labour
– Youth and Sustainability
Read more at: https://www.feminary.fi/en/youth-advocacy-alliance/
