develope2gether Youth participation reccomendations

QUALITY CRITERIA

Youth participation and involvement of young people

What do you have to keep in mind in the process of involvement of young people:

to give people knowledge about idea and all the projects elements, to clarification of ideas,
give opportunity to choose the way they want to work (ex. Promotion),
let they know the aims for all the task and resources they have,
sharing the work and responsibilities,
asking opinion,
setting the rules,
trust,
to find something in common,
to find and present different methods to achieve the goals,
youth decision,
explore possible weakness & strengths,
to convince about personal abilities,
to convince that project can be useful challenge,

Involvement of youth - methods and forms:

PREPARATION:

IMPLEMENTATION:

special time (gap in the programme) for a special interests groups organized by youth,
to choose together time, place and topics of the activities,
exhibition of the material products of youth work: drawing, painting, photos,
meeting related to finances during the implementation,
to give tasks related to money,
energizers, games, workshops provided by youth.

EVALUATION

a spy game,
competition,
team ABC - questions about the exchange,
photo exhibition (gallery); to show a exchange day by day and remind all the things happened,
report fulfilling; what to put in the report - brain storm,
evaluation forms made by them,
articles, web-sides,
work on the plan, schedule of the exchange (youth),
“the box” with the beginning like…..