• 2024-08-13

Voice & Impact: Empowering Youth Councils for Community Change

Regional Youth Dialogue for Europe - RYDE

Through the Youth Fund of the Regional Youth Dialogue for Europe, We are supporting regional projects that will contribute to the improvement of youth activism, participation and policy making skills at the local and national level. We are increasing the political participation of women, empowering young people for changes in the community, for dialogue, fostering peace and integration, advocating for a green future and the Youth Guarantees. 

Regional Youth Dialogue for Europe - RYDE is funded by European Union.

Organization: BBA - Beyond Barriers Association (Shoqata Pertej Barrierave), Albania.

Project: Voice & Impact: Empowering Youth Councils for Community Change.

Voice & Impact: Empowering Youth Councils for Community Change Project aims to strengthen participatory democracy by enhancing the operational effectiveness and influence of Local Youth Councils in Albania in the cities of Maliq, Saranda, Tepelena, and Gjirokastra. This project focus on participatory democracy ensuring that young people are not only numbersin their respective youth councils, but that their voices are heard, and they are active citizens in shaping and implementing local policies that directly affect their lives and wellbeing.

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The Youth Fund „Local Youth Initiatives“

The Youth Fund „Local Youth Initiatives“ is a FSTP (financial support to third parties) i.e. sub-granting activity of the three-year regional project „Regional Youth Dialogue for Europe“ (RYDE), funded by the European Union in the period 2023-2026 through EU Civil Society Facility and Media Programme in favour of the Western Balkans and Turkey for 2021-2023 (IPA III). The RYDE project is being implemented by the Center for Democracy Foundation from Serbia as a lead partner in cooperation with the partnering civil society organizations from the Western Balkans: Academy of European Integrations and Negotiations (Albania), Youth Act Center (Albania), Kosovar Stability Initiative (Kosovo*), Network of Progressive Initiatives (Bosnia and Herzegovina), NGO Info Center Foundation (North Macedonia) and Regional Academy for Democratic Development (Serbia).

Regional Youth Dialogue for Europe – RYDE