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Gender in Youth Work: Perspectives, Challenges and Opportunities
Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The main aim of this project is to raise awareness of youth workers on gender equality aspects through the development of social partnership between organizations from civil society and influence youth association to take action. It seeks to provide information, perspectives and resources for deepening and focusing the emphasis of youth and educational activities which address issues related to gender and their impact in youth work. As well it supports the creation of a stronger network of cooperation among the consortium and provides them with the possibility to increase their capacities and competencies in working with gender related issues, adopt gender strategies into their working agendas and act on local/national level on issues of abuse of gender issues, as human right issues. Objectives :• To increase the participants’ knowledge and skills in terms of exploring key concepts like: gender, politics of gender, gender mainstreaming, ethics related issues in youth trainings and projects etc;• To improve understanding of gender equality and gender mainstreaming at European and national level. • To raise awareness about the complexity of gender equality in multicultural societies; • To make comparative analysis of the structures of gender equality machinery in the countries involved.• To exchange good practice on the implementation of innovative measures in the partner countries to promote gender equality.• To develop tools for action for youth workers in local level of gender equality/inequality.• To promote Erasmus + as a great programme to empower youth workers The project brings together 8 associations from Albania, FYR of Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Czech republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Greece and Italy. Participants to the 3 activities are youth workers, youth leaders, activist and other young people interested and motivated to act as human right activist for gender based issues. The whole project is related to the promotion of gender equality for increasing youth participation and involvement on equal bases without any discrimination of gender or sexuality. Partner organizations themselves have expressed a strong interest on this theme of the project. The theme reflects the reality of WB countries affecting directly young people working on youth issues, also other relevant EU countries that are part.Having the opportunity to train youth works/leaders/activists on the concrete themes, and equip them with tools on how to fight gender based discrimination and promote inclusion and tolerance, would be an added value to the work of each partner of the consortium. The partners of the project do have a need and a will to take an active role in addressing gender issues and having trained their staff/youth workers/leaders/activists would allow them to be more advanced and more experienced in the field.
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