Global Youth Advocacy

Global Youth Advocacy (GYA) aimed at increasing the active participation of young people and youth NGOs in the political field through Advocacy (AD from now on).Our understanding of AD in this project was the development of strategies for active participation that should trigger change in society through campaigns and initiatives, aiming at influencing decision-making processes.This project aimed to develop training modules for NGOs in the field of advocacy through non-formal education. The partners developed specific competences that enabled them to promote active participation and provided tools to local communities to implement advocacy activities, particularly to raise awareness and to introduce change making initiatives in their local communities.The project involved 3 European and 3 Latin American Organizations with experience in active participation and change making. Moreover, each partner involved local stakeholders. The project aimed at increasing the active participation of young people and youth NGOs in political life. We focused on the interests of partner organisations in providing NGOs with tools and capacities to train and inspire young people to take an active role in social change and to give NGOs the competences to start and support sustainable Advocacy processes.Furthermore, the project aimed to:Implement non formal education and popular education methodologies on Advocacy and use of artistic and creative methodsProvide partners and local stakeholders the capacity to manage and facilitate YEs on AD using NFE and methodologies derived from art and theatre, following E+ YE modelBuild the capacity of partners and young people to implement AD campaigns and local TCs training them on: Increase the capacity of partners to interact & transparently influence policy & decision making process and implement a strategy to reinforce their local networkProvide young people, half of them with fewer opportunities, with positive learning experience based on NFE, intercultural learning and active participation using creative and artistic methodsCreate & test versatile NFE methodologies to train facilitators and young people on AD at international and local levelPromote through local events, website, social media, booklet, videos the project outcomes to 10 youth NGOs and 100 young people in each countryRaise awareness of local community and young people on AD itself and on the theme selected by each partner for the local AD campaign.The whole project was followed by a professional video-maker who created videos and web promotion for each activity. The project reached the following results:The creation of a booklet that contains detailed project description, theoretical contents on AD, format description of TOF, YE and local TCs, description of specific methodologies, case study of the AD campaigns implemented for this project and other examples by the partners and other organisationsvideo-tutorials to explain the NFE methodologies created. They have been complemented with subtitles in English in order to give clear information about the activities, materials, needs and steps to follow for the facilitatorsIn the Facebook page Youthnetworks we published contents on advocacy and on the meetings, tools on policy making and information on the campaign of each national The website https://www.globalyouthadvocacy.net/ contained all information on the project, the AD campaign, good practise from each countries methodologies and video tutorials.GYA project was based on a strong co-management and exchange of competences between all partners this created a group commitment in the whole project.