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Description
The project aims to expand civil activity and participation of Siauliai Region youth in public policy forming by developing anti-corruption education, promoting the integration of national minorities and exploiting the potential of NGO cooperation at the local and international levels. The project''s target group – young people of Siauliai Region (14-29 y.). The project solves the problems of lack of high-quality non-formal anti-corruption education, lack of modern digital methodological tools required for their implementation; passive participation of young people, especially young people from national minorities, in civic activities, and too little involvement in public policy-making.
In project there will be:
- implemented an experience exchange traineeship in Norway where the Applicant, 1 and 2 Partners will exchange the positive experience of activities aimed at more active involvement in the formation of public policy;
- improved a non-formal anti-corruption education and preparation of public administration proposals program, prepared the digital methodological material “easy to read”, open to all external users;
- implemented training “Engine of Youth Anti-Corruption Initiatives - Civic Activity and Involvement in Public Administration Decision-Making” for 160 youth representatives in 7 municipalities of Šiauliai County;
- organized 4 moderated public management proposal preparation working groups in each Šiauliai county municipality, involving 48 youth representatives;
- improved the skills relevant to the development of the Applicant''s and Partners'' NGO activities.
Summary of project results
The project solved these problems: lack of high-quality non-formal anti-corruption education and public administration proposal preparation programs, lack of modern digital methodological tools required for their implementation; passive participation of young people, especially young people from national minorities, in civic activities, too little involvement in public policy-making.
The activities planned in the project ensured the realization of all the general objectives of the APF program:
• civil society will be strengthened, vulnerable groups such as young people and ethnic minorities will be empowered;
• bilateral cooperation between Lithuanian civil society organizations and donor entities will be strengthened;
• regional networking will be encouraged, knowledge and good practice will be available to all civil society.
The project contributed to the achievement of the APF program level result ("Strengthened Civil Society and Active Citizenship, Empowered Vulnerable Groups"):
Number of CSOs directly funded – 4 (NLC, 1 NGO operating in Norway and 2 NGO operating in Šiauliai). Also, 1 Šiauliai city educational institution was involved in the Project.
In project there was done:
- implemented an experience exchange traineeship in Norway where NLC, 1 and 2 Partners exchanged the positive experience of activities aimed at more active involvement in the formation of public policy;
- improved a non-formal anti-corruption education and preparation of public administration proposals program, prepared the digital methodological material “easy to read”, open to all external users;
- implemented trainings “Engine of Youth Anti-Corruption Initiatives - Civic Activity and Involvement in Public Administration Decision-Making” for 199 youth representatives in 7 municipalities of Šiauliai County, including representatives of national minorities;
- organized 4 moderated public management proposal preparation working groups in each Šiauliai county municipality, involving 48 youth representatives;
- improved the skills relevant to the development of NLC''s and Partners'' NGO activities.
Summary of bilateral results
"FURIM Institutt" (1 Partner) from the donor country was included in the Project. This organization (1 Partner) operates in Oslo. The inclusion of this organization operating in Norway in the implementation of the Project substantiates the fact of bilateral partnership with the donor country provided for in the Program.The partnership made it possible to strengthen bilateral cooperation between Lithuanian civil society organizations and the country''s donor entities.The thematic bilateral cooperation established in the activity contributed to the implementation of other Project activities - the knowledge and skills of the Project executor and Partner 2 improved during the international internship led to a higher quality of all other Project activities (1.2.; 2.1.; 2.2.). Both Partner 1 ("FURIM Institutt") and NLC, Partner 2, had experience in the field of anti-corruption education and preparation of public management proposals prior to the implementation of the internship, therefore the thematic bilateral cooperation based on operational experience was very useful for the organizations that participated in the internship, and contributed to the quality of other Project activities. The implemented activities created conditions for the development of international partnership, cooperation between organizations. The thematic bilateral cooperation, based on good examples and operational experience, was very useful for all organizations and contributed to the quality of their activities.