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The NGO youth sector in Romania has a reduced development. The youth foundations have been overtaken by the current context in terms of working with young people and youth organizations leaving the developmental activities at the end of their priorities. The challenges of the sector are: instability of the national context on FJTs, outdated internal regulations, lack of transparency, outdated training of foundation staff, insufficient human resource and single source of funding.
The project aims to develop 20 youth foundations through a complex approach: evaluation of the foundations that are going to be supported; training (strategic planning, management procedures, systems for ensuring transparency of activities, diversifying financial resources, training of trainers); mentoring; multiplication support in establishing regional centers for the non-governmental youth sector; exchange of experience/networking and connecting with other stakeholders and material development and national support services for youth NGOs.
Overall, the project follows to increase the capacity and sustainability of the county youth foundations that would determine the consolidation of civil society at local/regional level trough the above-mentioned steps. The foundations developed through the project will have their services and activities for supporting the youth sector tailored on the needs of their direct beneficiaries. Federal youth NGOs will develop, adopt and implement effective internal management and transparency of organizational governance.
The project is implemented in partnership with National Youth Foundation, the only national youth facility that owns an infrastructure rich for young people which exceeds the capacity of public authorities to provide for young people; PONT Group that has extensive experience in developing programmes and processes at local level in the youth field. The envisaged activities coordinated by Newschool AS Norway respond to the needs of the project.