The project JAMBO Young Women Empowerment to Improve Quality of Youth Work and Volunteering in EU and Partner Countries, aims at exploring gender issues in different societies, linking the deep-rooted analysis ran in the African countries on gender sensitivity to the participation of young women and men in International Voluntary Service - IVS projects, taking into account their interaction in diverse cultural and social contexts.Furthermore the project has to be considered as a means to enhance women participation in IVS activities by developing concrete tools and working methods to approach gender sensitivity and gender issues through non-formal education approaches. Indeed the project will raise awareness in both the local communities and partners about gender equality as the key-element to social justice and the young citizens’ active participation to global development.The project is 12 months long and the associations involved are: Lunaria-Italy, Concordia-France, Grenzenlos-Austria, KVDA-Kenya,UPA-Uganda and TYCEN-Tanzania. All of them are active in the field of International Voluntary Service and they strongly favor the promotion and development of the IVS movement as a tool to promote the values of mutual understanding, respect, active citizenship and social inclusion.The project participants are youth workers and young people: they will actively take part in the feasibility study in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania; in the international training course in Kenya; in the youth meetings in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania; in the international training course in Uganda; in the study phase in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and in the international training course in Italy.All the activities have in common an horizontal methodology aimed to develop the cooperation and the bottom-up approach, starting from the needs analysis and the work developed by the youth workers and the young people involved in the process. For the entire duration of the project we expect the to employ methodologies based on non-formal education methods stimulating active participation, self-reflection, creativity, ‘learning by doing’ process. We also expect to build capacity of youth workers in order to favour the participation of young women either proposing new and innovative ideas and initiatives or adapting existing methodologies and tools to more social and environmentally friendly approaches taking into account their local social and economic contexts.The project outcomes will be merged in a tool kit approaching gender equality through non-formal education and underlining the importance of favouring women participation in IVS projects. It will include: the main achievements of the project - methods, tools, good practices and its products - ideas, comments and evaluations by all the actors involved.

“PANDORA’S BOX Young Women, Community Development through EU and LA Cooperation” was a project developed to answer the needs of empowering women and young girls in Europe and Latin America, identifying and redressing power imbalances and giving them more autonomy to manage their own lives. Indeed the project goal was to meet the above mentioned needs and priorities, by raising awareness on the role of women in family, society and economy and by promoting the women empowerment in Europe and Latin America. The project lasted 15 months and involved the following organizations: Lunaria – Italy, Solidarites Jeunesses – France, Pandora Mirabilia – Spain, El Hombre Sobre La Tierra-Mexico, Brigada de Voluntarios Bolivarianos del Peru-Perù and Fundaciòn Proyecto Ecològico Chiriboga-Ecuador.Specifically the project aimed to enhance gender equity and young women empowerment by providing youth social workers, peer educators, local organizations and international NGOs in Europe and Latin America with new tools and methods to favour young women participation in short and medium voluntary service activities and in local and international projects. The project included different actions: itinerant feasibility visit; training course on gender issues and non formal education methods, youth meetings in the LA countries; training course on project management; study phase in the LA countries; local actions implementation in the LA countries; training course-restitution and methods sharing and follow up activities.During the project the consortium organizations have developed, tested and assessed a methodological package, including non formal education methods, tool kits and video tutorials, to approach different target groups and to facilitate the gathering and capitalization of different outcomes.The project has foreseen to achieve the following outcomes and results: development of a pedagogical set of methodology and training methods for youth workers and peer educators; non-formal learning methods upgrading and testing; promotion of peer-learning activities; foster of cooperation and networking between LA and EU organization in the field of gender equality.

PROMETEUS principal aim is to exchange and improve youth working competences and good practices (in particular on international workcamp management) between Concordia France, Lunaria Italy, FPEC Ecuador and BVBP Peru through Mobility activities, youth workers and volunteer exchanges. The project methodology relies mainly on non-formal education, observation, experience sharing and learn by doing principles.PROMETEUS main objectives are:- Harmonize and improve youth work quality in workcamps management- Exchange competences and good practices in the consortium and beyond- Develop professional and personal competences of the participants- Empower local youngsters (in particular these with fewer opportunities)- Strengthen links and cooperation between European and Latin American youth organizations.In order to achieve these results, PROMETEUS is composed by the listed activities:- 2 weeks study visit in Ecuador and Peru- 4 European volunteers supporting the latin american organizations during 9 months- 1 international training course of 7 days in Ecuador on workcamps management- local trainings and workshops for the organization members and local youngsters- 12 Job shadowings mobilities during the international workcamp season- 5 days restitution seminar in France.

AGORA’ is a Strategic Partnership project in the field of innovation, aimed to develop tools and pedagogical approaches to fight young people social exclusion, and specifically gender-based discrimination, in public spaces settled in isolated areas, by promoting EU values and active citizenship. Thus the project will have a specific focus on “public spaces”: areas potentially open and accessible to everybody where young people can encounter, gather and socialize. They can be the setting both for exclusions and ghettoisation, as well for the concrete practice of democracy and participation. Still the isolated areas we aim to involve in Italy, Romania, Greece, Spain and France, are marked by exclusion, becoming the stage for racism, sexism, bullying and different displays of discrimination. “Isolated area” stands for a big variety of spaces from the suburbs of big cities, “left-out” neighborhoods in small town, more remote or rural areas. AGORA’ will bring concrete actions in these spaces through the implementation of different specific objectives: to build up the local diagnostic to detect the reasons behind gender-based discrimination among young people; to share the existing tools and approaches to promote participation and inclusion; to up-scale them within a newly formed pedagogical perspective, to create an educational package to detect the youth gender-base discrimination and intervene; to empower young people and local communities from isolated areas and to transform them in promoters of new grass-rooted actions.Participants are: TG1 (youth workers, educators, activists), we expect to involve as direct beneficiaries an average number of 300. They do cooperate with their organizations in educational activities. In several cases they are active in urban, suburban, isolated and very populous areas where are more relevant the cases of social exclusion, bullying, racist and sexist discrimination. In the case of the TG2 (young people), we expect to involve as direct beneficiaries an average number of 450. They are youth aged between the 15 and the 25 years old, living in urban, suburban and rural, isolated areas where the youth workers, educators, activists are active. The following activities will be implemented: •A1.Transnational Project Meeting: Kick Off meeting for project coordinators •A2.Country Field Research: to build the local diagnostic and detect the reasons behind youth gender-based discrimination •Intellectual Output1-I.O.1: Toolkit with tools and interactive methods to detect the warning signals in the youth gender-based discriminative behaves and to understand the causes behind the display •A3.-A4. Training Courses: to share and test the existing tools, methods and approaches, to evaluate and up-scale them •A5.Tools Harmonization: to upgrade and systematize the tools and approaches shared•A6.Tools Testing through Street Actions (I.O.2): to test the efficacy of the tools upgraded and fine tuned, using them to activate public spaces in isolated areas •Intellectual Output 2-I.O.2: Handbook on tools and interactive methods, within a newly designed pedagogical approach, to promote gender equity within groups of young people in public spaces•A7.Multipliers Events in Public Spaces: to widespread the I.O.s produced among different relevant stakeholders•A8.Transnational Project Meeting: Evaluation meeting for project coordinators •A9.Follow Up: to wide-spread the project outcomes and implement actions in public spaces, revitalizing isolated areas.AGORA’ foresees the use of different working methods part of a pedagogical approach which combines field and desk researches, non formal education with Street Clowning, Body Movement, Labyrinth Theatre and Social Cabaret, to create an educational package to promote gender equality among groups of young people coming from isolated areas. This approach and package, within a newly designed pedagogical perspective, is marked by a strong flexibility, being based on the participants and learners feedbacks. It is shaped to guarantee the creation of tailor made and coherent learning processes for individuals, groups and local communities. The tools included in the I.O.1 and I.O.2 will be shaped accordingly to a permanent upgrading and up-scaling opening to the possibility of being adapted in different socio-cultural backgrounds taking into account the different specificities and needs.AGORA’ will lead to the following outcomes: better understanding of the reasons behind the young people gender-based discrimination; upgrading and up-scaling of the tools to fight gender-based discrimination; competences development of youth workers and activists to better favour inclusion; enhancement of youth participation and transformation of youth in change-makers; creation of a sustainable informal network and enhancement of interactions among partners to strengthen the capacity of youth work to respond to key societal trends and challenges.