Conference on Local Youth Plans

Except of Tirana, the capital of Albania, no other city has a Local Action Plan for Youth built in cooperation with young people and approved by the City Council. The National Youth Congress with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation receives for the first time the initiative to build these plans in cooperation with networking organizations. During the year, 12 meetings were held with local organizations, municipal representatives, media and 12 local coordinators who prepared the conceptual basis with data on the plan, issues and objectives for each municipality. At the final conference "Towards a more effective dialogue" these 12 draft plans were presented to the community of donors, embassies and other relevant stakeholders dealing with youth issues at the local level.

Youth Activism Manual - A New Moment for Promoting Activism

Schools and gymnasiums curriculum does not include education on activism. This has led young people willing to become active, to be less informed about activism and struggle from the lack of information on how to become activists. The "Youth Activism Manual - A New Moment for Promoting Activism" project, implemented with the support of the Hanns Seidel Foundation, was intended to provide a useful handbook for young people who are active in the community and those who want to become part of it. This manual contained information on what an organization is, how they enroll in court, what structures they have, what is advocacy, lobbying, and many other information that a young person might need. Within this project were conducted 12 training's throughout Albania and finalized with a competition at the national level where 12 youth groups that were part of the training's from 12 cities were competing for the best advocacy and lobbying campaign. This project provided young people with valuable information on the opportunities and support they have from donors and institutions when it comes to the willingness to make changes.

#ActWithNYC - Towards a more effective dialogue

National Youth Congress in cooperation and with the support of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation conducted a monitoring with the main purpose of providing a transparent and objective overview of the youth policies undertaken by the Albanian government during 2017-2018, analyzing the work of the ministries in relation to the objectives of the National Action Plan on Youth. In order to accomplish this monitoring, were sent requests for relevant ministerial information, interviews and focus groups with deputies and heads of relevant structures for the issues addressed. The findings of this monitoring were consulted in 5 round-tables with youth organizations, youth political forums, student governments, embassies and deputies.  This project was finalized with a joint table where the official publication of the results of the monitoring report on the performance of the line ministries and mainly of the Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth on the implementation of the National Action Plan and the official handover of the document Deputy. The Minister of Education, which contains the points of all comments and recommendations coming from the entire Congress Assembly throughout the drafting process of the Draft Law on Youth.