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    The workshop discussed the future Youth Action Plan (YAP) in the EU's external action. [1] Key topics included ensuring young people's ownership and participation in creating the plan. [2] Meaningful youth participation faces challenges like lack of communication, funding, and political obstacles. [3] The EU could have major impact by supporting local youth initiatives, democratic movements, and improving national/regional youth participation mechanisms.

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    Workshop on the future Youth Action Plan in the EU External Action

    5th Eastern Partnership YOUTH FORUM- 23 Nov 2021

    In 23 and 24 November 2021, the 5th Eastern Partnership Youth Forum was organized by the
    Slovenian Presidency of the Council DG NEAR and SALTO. The Forum, focused on youth
    participation in democratic processes, gathered youth workers, active and critical young people
    and youth policymakers from the Eastern Partnership countries, the European Union and its
    Member States.

    On 23 November, as part of a discussion on the future of youth policy in the Eastern


    Partnerships, there was a dedicated workshop on the future Youth Action Plan (YAP) in the
    EU external action. The objective was to collect inputs from East Partnership Youth Forum
    stakeholders to the ongoing targeted consultation on the Youth Action Plan in the EU External
    Action.

    23 Nov 2021// Group 2.1 Action Plan on Youth in External Action


    Topic 2.1 Action Plan on Youth in External Action

    Harvester Olga Poddubbnaya

    Keynote Speakers Ana TORRES FRAILE


    DG INTPA Youth Team, European Commission

    General overview

    Topic(s) that you identified as the most important from the plenary:

     The aim of the Youth Action Plan in the EU external action


     The process of creating this plan
     The ownership is very important in this process, that young people from EaP really
    has a say and can
     The participation should be underlined as a right, so young people really should
    have access to participation on local and international levels.

    Please give a general overview of the things discussed/talked about.


    Please remember: related to the topic of the plenary! (Try to keep it to a maximum of 200-
    250 words! Bullet points are fine!)

     Youth in action plan – Global document and there is the intention to take regional

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    specificities into account, how exactly is unclear at the moment

    1. What could be considered a successful Youth Action Plan? What would you like to
    see accomplished by 2027?
     Inclusion
     Covering the gaps that other initiatives are not covering
     Including a component of building on what has already been achieved - collecting
    results, following up with policy implementation, evaluation
     One that ensures young people are involved (considered) across all programmes
    and budgetary lines
     One that considers young people as a resource to solutions related to them.
     One that brings added value related to young people in therms of respecting their
    "specific" situation of being YOUNG
     Increased level of youth engagment
     Sustainable and meaningful engagment of youth in decision-making processes
     Young people being considered not as an issue, but a solution for the existing
    challenges

    2. Based on your experience, what are the main challenges for meaningful youth
    participation?
     Communication channels
     Young people can use support to shape better their messages and target the right
    decision makers. Content should be there, but "packaging" is also important
     Insufficient financial means
     Political obstacles
     Lack of awareness about the ways how to be involved
     Lack of trustness that it makes sense
     Unemployment problems
     not having an ecosystem approach. To make it meaningful and sustainable it is
    worthy working with youth, intermediaries (youth workers / youth organizations),
    building capacity of policy makers (targeted), and supporting mechanisms for
    dialogue
     Most importantly - follow up with the agreements and decision points after
    dialogue between youth and decision makers, since sometimes decisions /
    recommendations stay on the paper and no one comes back to them
     Lack of understanding why youth participation is important
     Indifference of governments to youth participation
     Lack of knowledge about conditions for appropriate participation (RMSOS)
     There are always other priorities for decision makers
     Lack of labour market regulation
     Lack of overall understanding of the terminology on what is
    participation/empowerment

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     Low rate access to the information in rural areas
     Low trust rate to the state
     Lack of communaction between the state and the youth
     Tockenistic instruments for youth participation
     Pro-state structures, who pretend to embrace youth participation

    3. In addressing those challenges, where would the EU action have the biggest
    impact in strengthening youth participation and empowerment? What concrete
    EU support measure or initiative would you recommend?
     Support mechanism for youth initiatives at local community level
     Bolder support for democracy and democratic movements as many challenges stem
    from the inability of youth activists in non-democratic countries to use classic
    instruments of fostering youth participation (youth councils or cooperation with the
    governments,)
     International platforms for sharing good practices of youth participation
     Improving the national / regional / international youth participation mechanisms
    and empowering them to take stronger role in decision making / advocacy for youth
    related matters
     Windows (special funds) for specific countries or regions. For example it could be a
    special Belarusian Youth Window which could prowide different resources to
    support yong people and youth organisations in Belarus
     Guiding
     Mainstreaming youth
     Monitoring progress
     Training for trainers
     ToT on youth advocacy
     Financial support to the right actors in the field
     Establishing programs for support of rural youth
     Funding of the NGOs intiatives
     Monitoring the process

    Details

    What were the main challenges stressed by the speakers?


    Please describe the speakers’ perspective on youth problems. (Write this information in
    bullet points + please identify the speaker!)

     Take into account regional specificities

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     Ensure real participation of young people and not just tockenism
     Work in the countries where there is lack of trust towards national goverments

    Did they focus on a specific group of young people? Which one(s)? Why?
    Please describe if they spoke about youth from a particular country or background. (Write
    this information in bullet points.)

    There was a question of what could be done in relations to Belarus situation, what could be
    done to support people from there? There are lots of problems with implementing the
    project there. This is similar to other regions and countries like Syria, so maybe there are
    some strategies that can be used.
    There is a focus on youth participation and engagement, taking into account shrinking
    space for civil society and other obstacles for participants.
    N/A

    Did they propose any changes? Which one(s)? Why? (Write this information in bullet
    points. If not mentioned, leave blank.)

    N/A

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