- Project: Stay BOLD
- Project duration: 01.08.2022. – 01.08.2023.
- Project reference: SBK80022GR0075
- Grant amount: 80,000$
- Donor: U.S. EMBASSY in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Summary:
Stay BOLD focuses on motivating and boosting positive changes across B&H, by empowering young. In the situation of democratic transition, slow economic growth and the same politicians running the country for more than 20 years, young people are showing no interest in civic engagement or activism as a kind of protest against not so good political system. From our experience in working with NEET youngsters, majority of them don’t think that their skills, competences and knowledge would be crucial in finding a job. They see their friends and family connections as more important in finding employment. This is directly leading to the situation and general mindset of the young people that apart from the formal education they don’t see any need to do volunteering as their skills and competences developed by nonformal education methods would not be any helpful in finding a job. Results of the big research (more than 10.000 young people) that Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Foundation did at the national level, shows that only 13% of young people were involved in any voluntary activity in the last 12 months. Same research shows that ⅔ of young people selected the public sector as a most desirable employer as those jobs are seen as well paid and safe unlike the insecure private sector. The fact that young people see education exclusively as a gateway to a well-paid job in the public sector that does not require too many abilities or competences shows their lack of motivation and activism. They can’t find desire or motivation to be “change agents”, but are looking for safe jobs in the public sector, sacrificing opportunities for their own professional and personal development.
Youth Power uses lessons learned during the implementation of Become BOLD project to further adapt learning on project development and management as a response to community needs, through development of online learning course and online learning game. Outcome 1 – Improve and gain new knowledge and skills of 50 young leaders across B&H in areas of: local community needs assessment, development of projects and initiative based on the needs of local communities, project implementation, monitoring and evaluation; thus resulting in better educated and skills equipped leaders of local communities (linked to Outputs 3, 4 and 5). Outcome 2 – Motivate and boost positive changes in local communities across B&H, through empowering young people for development of local initiatives in the form of concrete activities and project ideas in fields of citizenship, community building, grassroots activism, political leadership, and volunteerism (linked to Outputs 1 and 2). Outcome 3 – Local communities are mobilized and are taking part in initiatives and projects for creating positive changes in fields of citizenship, community building, grassroots activism, political leadership, and volunteerism (linked to Outputs 6 and 7).