Project overview: YEP-Youth Empowerment Programme looks at the establishment of the County Council of Youth Leaders, the mobilization of local communities through local action groups youth, developing local action plans for youth, improving living conditions for young people in Gorj by implementing concrete actions and effective in terms of cost, the construction of County Youth Strategy for 2008-2013, improving young people participation in the decison to change the public perception in dealing with youth issues, community awarness and increasing its accountability relative to these issues, strengthening the capacity of the local authorities and NGOs to design, manage and implement youth programmes.

YEP-Youth Development Progamme

The Yep Programme occurs naturally in teh context of descentralisation, local authorities having more and more responsabilities, including in the domain of education, sport, leisure, social protection and other issues directly related to the life of young people.
On the other hand it compensates the weak capacity of local authorities and public institutions to engage the youth in the community management development.
This project focuses on international recommendations, European and national, signed by Romania, such as: The Revised European Charter of Youth about the participation of Youth to Local and Regional Life, European Commission White Paper-A new impulse for European youth, The European Youth Pact, but also The United Nation Convention on The Child Rights.
This project contains informational campaign, candidates campaigns and county elections, study visit and best practices but also formal recognition of The Youth County Council.
Project partnership: The Association Youth Without Borders, CHIDO(Sierra Leone), Jovenes de Buena Volundad(Peru), Association jeunesse verte du cameroun (Cameron),OAJNU (Argentina), NBV (Sweden), Norfolk Childrens Services (UK)
Donor: ANPCDEFP
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