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Young people from rural areas are facing multiple problems and difficulties, which local and national authorities are not prepared to solve. Public policies are deficient when it comes to the development of young people from the rural areas and the youth sector in rural areas is almost invisible. At the local level, the local community and the authorities fail to respond in real time to the needs of the young people. Often, dialogue between these parties is lacking, and setting priorities for young people in the village is done without even a discussion with them.
The European Youth Village program aims to create this context of dialogue between community members and institutional actors of the village and to encourage the initiative from young people to other actors involved in the process, thus contributing to creating new opportunities for young people, but also influencing the public policies at local and national level.
European Youth VIllage is coordinated at national level in a co-management system by ADA and Go Free Association, with the involvement of youth organizations and the informal youth groups from the European youth villages network. Along with us, in the network, are the organizations that coordinate at local level the program in the villages that have received the title of European youth village. The program has a huge development potential, but the impact is limited due to insufficient resources and reduced organizational capacity of the two organizations coordinating the program.
Through this project, we aim to strengthen the capacity of the European Youth Village program to become a reference program for the development of the rural youth sector and to contribute strategically to systemic changes that support young people and the entire rural youth ecosystem in Romania.