Global Development
Beyond any technical paradigm, ARDR works on the EU-Africa-Latin America partnership as focusing on strengthening the Network YEN as a means for innovation, expertise and excellence in development cooperation.
YEN may be a driver for sustainable development and particularly on aid effectiveness that is translated as a step in "using aid to end aid".
ARDR considers moving further from the stage of using aid to produce results limited by project intervention to a situation when aid becomes an instrument to raise an enabling environment for a civil society that has to be a constitutive driver for domestic societal changes; hence, ARDR indulges processes as much importance as output results.
Beyond any rhetoric, the EU has to shift from the rhetoric of ensuring equal access to a situation when civil society organizations from Africa and Latin America would have fair access to opportunities in terms of funding. Thus, a political momentum may be built also amongst the governments in Africa and Latin America once the civil society organizations from these countries are granted with trust and opportunities to stand in the front seat of steering trans-continental development. That may be replicated positively back home, at the national and sub-national territories, as a genuine dialogue in between government structures and civil society organizations in fostering good governance and updated local public policy agenda.
ARDR pledges for an EU that plays a supportive role and avail to civil society organizations from Africa and Latin America chances to address global challenges on an equal footing with NGOs from within the EU.
ARDR is working on strengthening the capacity and the expertise of YEN to build on further solid premises for a sustainable EU, Africa and Latin America dialogue bringing the local and national territories into a trans-national joint development agenda.
Global Development is ensured by means of projects on European voluntary service and YEN network.
Community Youth Development encompasses learning for personal, civic and social purposes as well as for employment related purposes. It takes place in a variety of environments inside and outside the formal education and training systems. Youth Development implies increasing the investment in people and knowledge; promoting the acquisition of basic skills, including digital literacy; and broadening opportunities for innovative, more flexible forms of learning.
It looks at promoting young people's active citizenship in general and their European citizenship in particular, develops solidarity and promote tolerance among young people, in particular in order to foster social cohesion in the European Union; fosters mutual understanding between young people in different countries and it contributes to developing the quality of support systems for youth activities and the capabilities of civil society organizations in the youth field; it promotes European cooperation in the youth field.
Youth Development is ensured by means of projects on community and European voluntary service, rural youth entrepreneurship.
