YBH4WBT Who We Are – A joint Project of five youth organisations from the Western Balkan and Turkey whose objective is to ensure a greater involvement of young people in public life of this part of Europe. The Project will be carried out in Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia and Turkey over the next four years. Implementing partners in the Project are: Ana and Vlade Divac Foundation (Serbia),
Prima Association (Montenegro), Mladiinfo International (Macedonia), Centre for Change and Conflict Management (Albania) and Community Volunteers Foundation (Turkey). The Project is supported by the European Commission, as part of its continuous efforts towards upgrading relationship of public authorities with the youth. YBH4WBT Why This Region – Researches on the position of youth in these countries show that young people are facing almost identical problems in all these countries, and that their level of involvement is alarmingly low. It is of vital importance to change the public policies affecting young people in all these countries and this will certainly present one of their tasks on the road to European integrations. YBH4WBT What Is Our Objective – Stimulate young people to become more actively involved in decision making in political, economical and social life and influence creation of youth public policies. Create a network of youth organisations from these five countries which will actively monitor the position of youth, evaluate the level of their involvement and lead public advocacy campaigns for changes in the present policies affecting youth in these countries. YBH4WBT How To Reach Our Objective – We shall regularly monitor the levels of youth involvement in public life in all five countries, particularly their involvement in making decisions of crucial importance for the life of the entire community. We shall be a reliable source of information on the position of youth for all interested audiences and a relevant partner to public authorities in shaping their new policies. We shall be the ones paving the road to a new way of communicating with youth in these areas.