Description
The goal of the project is to turn the participating NGOs into laboratories of the development of young people’s democratic skills thus enhancing their capacity building and the active citizenship skills of tomorrow’s decision makers. The applicant strives to become a high quality organization involved in civil society development. The organizations involved work with youngsters in order to make the lives of marginalized youths better and draw public attention to the socially disadvantaged. The project focuses on an interactive exchange of experiences (taking stock of assets, site visits, trainings, organizational development, coaching, blogging, and public advocacy events, etc), and the creation of an innovative methodological portfolio. The organisations involved will get stronger, a network of youth service organizations will be created, the organizations’ advocacy potential will develop further, so will the social dialogue, and solidarity while the democracy deficit will decrease.
Summary of project results
DeMo was conceived based on prior cooperation with the partner NGO's and grassroots initiatives. The need for a lively professional network with exchange of experiences, professional debates, cooperation and methodology development in various fields were identified. The results of DeMo will be sustained through the blog, the already existing cooperations and on-going projects such as training moduls jointly carried out, professional development, etc. The beneficiaries were 12 NGO's involved including their staff, volunteers and target groups, local partners and universities. The main benefit of DeMo was the creation and the consolidation of a professional network of NGO's and grassroots initiatives focussing on combatting social inequalities through mentoring programmes, afternoon schools, communication and awareness raising campaigns, etc. Donor partners were OTP, OSF’s Youth Programme. These are long-term partnerships.
Summary of bilateral results