Youth Community Council - Mission Possible: Civil Capacity Building in Local Policy-Making in Zavet

     The project aim was to establish Youth Community Council in the Municipality of Zavet as a consultative body to the local authorities. The target group  included 30 people, representatives of Youth civic groups and organizations, non-governmental organizations, national and local authorities, local business and media. Direct beneficiaries were all young people (age 18-35) from Zavet, through providing them with opportunity to exercise influence on local decision-making and policy implementing. The major project activities include organizing of training and capacity building seminars, information dissemination and publishing, research and surveys activities.

     One of the major results of this project was the establishment of a Youth Community Council in Zavet on the 7^th of May 2004.  Yong people from Zavet, representatives of local authorities and media took a part. The aim of the Youth Community Council is to gather both young civic activists and representatives of local authorities to discuss youth problems in local decision-making and policy implementing. The Youth community council effectively represents youth interests, increases their participation in local decision making and ensures accountable and transparent local governance.

  Another major accomplishment of this project was the publication of the biangular brochure Youth Community Council-Mission is Possible: Civic Capacity Development in Local Policy Making in Zavet - http://www.iris-bg.org/Leaflet.pdf

The project was supported by the Phare Civil Society Development Programme 2001

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