Not Neat to be NEET - building capacities of the Western Balkan’s youth organisations for more inclusive projects and full participation of youth with fewer opportunities

Inclusion and diversity is strong priority for the Erasmus+. Experienced youth orgs however know that inclusion of youth with fewer opportunities, specifically in youth projects remains challenging. Even for youth orgs that are strong and well established. The thing is inclusion of such youths often requires much greater effort and resources that are not always there. How about than for organisations from smaller communities of the Western Balkans region? How do they cope with the challenge? But no matter the youth organisation size, for all youth orgs it is very important what kind of methodology is applied to development and implementation of projects that target youth with fewer opportunities. It is illogical to plan to include youth with mobility issues, only to organize a TC in completely inaccessible to them location/facilities. Or plan to include youth faced with economic barriers, coming from low living standard and low income for instance, only to ask of them to finance their international trip on their own. Or make them wait for reimbursement for weeks after they come back home. Nevertheless, these illogical things happen, more often then we care to admit and these happen because organisations do not have more qualified staff and/or volunteers working specifically in support of the participation of young people with fewer opportunities. Consortium members consisting of youth organisations from the WB region: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania and Kosovo* would like to change this fact.We feel that also youth orgs from smaller communities of the WB region need capacity building and new volunteers and staff working in support of participation of people with fewer opportunities in projects. We also feel that these current and future youth workers need transnational opportunities to learn from each other and work with each other and network on more firm basis thus enabling greater inclusion and diversity in youth projects in the region.