Local Strategy for the Integration of the Youth and new employment opportunities

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Local Strategy for the Integration of the Youth
and new employment opportunities
Back to the future Connecting the Younger and
Older Generation through Life Stories to
Cooperate for Making the Change within the
Framework of Non-Formal Education
September 2008
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The Organization of the Initiative
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The Vision

• A local society which values mutual respect and
  equal fundamental rights and which understands
  and believes in the ability of youth to shape and
  change society in progressive ways
• A local society free from discrimination because
  of age, class, religion, educational attainment,
  gender or other factors
• A local society which moulds young people to be
  critically self aware and aware of the total
  environment.

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• An overview of the suggested youth strategy

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Thematic Priorities

• Social and Economic Empowerment opportunities for
  youth development
• Adolescent and Youth Protection
• Adolescent and Youth Leadership

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Key figures

• Education 1/3 of the unemployed has completed
  tertiary education. 30 of graduates remain
  unemployedin EU only the 14.
• 40 is being looking for a job from 6-17 months
  and 35 for more than 1 year and a half.
• Unemployment rate 8.3 (2008)
• Youth unemployment (A trimester 2008) 33,36

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Overall objective

• All young people should have genuine access to
  welfare and to centres of influence.

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Prioritised issues

• Education
• Employment
• Culture and leisure
• Participation
• Health and security

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Methods of Approach

• The Local Committee needs to
• coordinate initiatives between all policy areas
  with relevance to youth
• collect and disseminate knowledge
• set the priorities for youth policy
• cooperate with the municipality
• have an ongoing dialogue with youth and their
  organisations

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Organization of work

• Integration of a youth perspective in the
  existing objectives of relevant policy areas of
  the Local Authority
• Approx. 40 young people, members of existing
  local youth clubs, had the task to report on the
  thematic priorities
• The Local Committee consisted of young people as
  well as of elders and actors of the social sector
  followed up their reports

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• Analysis of the thematic prioritiesand
  implementation plan

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1. Social and Economic Empowerment Opportunities
for Youth

• Goals
• The reduction of unemployment among young men and
  women
• Equality of Opportunity
• Plan
• Building and maintaining political will
• mobilizing adequate financial resources
• increasing access to and use of new technologies
• matching educational policy and labor market
  needs

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2. Adolescent and Youth Protection

• Goals
• Reducing levels of substance abuse, crime and
  violence among youth
• Countering the emergence of anti-social and
  non-conformist leadership at the grassroots level

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2. Adolescent and Youth Protection

• Plan
• Creating trust between local police and youth
• Developing Social Capital
• Local authorities and NGOs to support sport,
  drama, music and other after school activities
  for youth
• adopt a regional approach to drug education using
  clear and simple messages

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3. Adolescent and Youth Leadership

• Goals
• To foster active youth participation in local
  social life and integration processes

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3. Adolescent and Youth Leadership

• Plan
• Implementation of leadership training programs
  for young people. These trainings will
• Demonstrate respect and concern for youth
• Provide an effective training experience for
  selected youth and potential leaders
• Recognize publicly young people who are
  rendering service to their communities
• Encourage leadership of youth by youth

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Role of the Municipality

• Active engagement
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Consultation
• Reform of its services (along with the public
  services) so as to give motivation to young
  people for active participation in the local
  social life.

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Perspectives

• All Civilians, youth and elder, members of the
  local community should act according to the
  following perspectives
• The cooperation perspective
• The encouragement perspective
• The support perspective
• The respect perspective