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Description
Experience Transfer and Leadership Skills Development Program for Regions “Active Citizenship Framework” aims to strengthen the CSO of Siauliai County, enabling them to work together, manage long-term strategic planning, using modern leadership development methods, including the active citizenship framework.
With this Project we will invite the youth of Siauliai region to join the CSO, to be active citizens and participate in the projects led by CSO.
Project target groups: a) members (especially decision-makers) of youth CSO or CSO working with young people, who are active in Siauliai County; b) youth in Siauliai county, potential CSO members. Indirect beneficiaries will be Siauliai county communities CSO work with because the implementation of this project is likely to increase the quality of ongoing projects, contribute to a more accurate long-term strategic planning and an overall joint CSO operations strategy, improve communication and development of more sustainable solutions at the local level.
Interactive training cycle and mentoring sessions will be organized – experience workshop transfer with Lithuanian and foreign trainers, mentors and facilitators. These are necessary to strengthen the management of the organization, operational strategy, membership policy and other capacities. The project will end with presentations of joint Siauliai County CSO activity strategies as well as individual CSO presentations at the final Leadership Forum - Networking Day. After the project, the implementation process of the strategy will be monitored and consultations will be provided to CSO that committed to cooperate.
Summary of project results
The aim of the project was to empower young people in Šiauliai County to be active citizens, to take responsibility for their career choices and to contribute to the sustainable development of their region, by developing leaders in business, science, culture and other fields, and by participating in strong and sustainable CSOs.
During 30 months of project Experience Transfer and Leadership Skills Development Program for Regions “Active Citizenship Framework” implementation partners Asociacion JCI sostinė and Asociacion JCI Šiauliai organised 15 interactive trainings, 5 mentorship sessions for youth and working with youth CSO in Šiauliai district and international carier and skils development conference ,,Learn. Create. Do“. The conference atraccted over 300 participants. The final project volunteership team united over 60 volunteers. A joint action and cooperation strategy was signed by 13 CSO and 2 business enterprises. The project activities involved participants form all Šiauliai district, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Vilnius, Trakai etc.
New relations between the youth of Šiauliai region and CSOs working with youth were formed, a cooperation strategy was signed, which will be further implemented, the project conference "Learn. Develop. Act" was successful and attracted and empowered young people in Šiauliai to plan their careers responsibly and to be active citizens. Also, the learning framwork when regional JCI branch trains CSOs while being mentored by JCI Vilnius proved to be succesful in strengthening both local CSOs and the Siauliai branch of JCI.