TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Andreea-Loredana Tudorache
The aim of this project was to raise the capacity of 8 youth organisations from Europe and Africa to contribute to a cohesive sustainable society through alternative innovative methodology, such as street campaigning.
The project achieved the following objectives:
-To provide a space for sharing best practices among youth organisation in Africa-Europe youth cooperation field;
-To set up the bases for a street campaigning network active in global citizenship area on both continents;
-To increase the level of innovation and creativity in youth work field;
-To stimulate mobility of youth workers between continents and within their own continents;
-To develop strong proactive attitudes towards global citizenship among the direct beneficiaries;
-To increase the knowledge level of young people and youth workers in topics like: global interdependencies, pollution, sustainable lifestyle, consumerism, social and global justice, etc.
-To motivate all the beneficiaries (direct and indirect) to act as responsible active global citizens in their day-to-day life;
The project’s main beneficiaries (43 youth workers from Romania, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, Togo, Tanzania, Nigeria and Ghana) took part in a long-term training course focused on developing practical working competencies in global citizenship field and street campaigning.
The training approach was designed as the following:
1) An initial training course for developing basic competencies in global citizenship and street campaigning for the future multipliers (it took place in Lome, Togo, in April 2017);
2) A practice phase in each of the partner countries (Ghana, Hungary, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Tanzania and Togo), where the multipliers, as trained street campaigners in global issues, prepared and implemented campaigns for more than 2400 young people in their communities between May and December 2017. The topics tackled in their campaigns were: pollution, waste, responsible consumption, sustainable life style, etc.
3) The practice phase was followed by a second training course (which took place in Busteni, Romania, in November – December 2017), for assessing the first practice phase results and for developing advanced competencies in the street campaigning and global citizenship. The main aim of the training was to complete the set of competencies of the youth workers to become independent street campaigners.
4) A second practice phase took place in the partner countries, where the multipliers transferred their competencies in a new round of street campaigns for more than 3200 young people in their communities.
5) A final evaluation meeting was organized in Portugal, Madeira, in May 2018, in order to evaluate and assess the impact of the whole project and plan how the network will continue to work in a coordinated manner from now on.
All the training activities were included in the manual produced as an outcome of the project.
One of the main outcomes of the training program was the production of a Manual on Street Campaigning for global issues: https://goo.gl/uNyofv or http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/2353
My role was of full time trainer and coordinating the team of trainers. Together we realised the
- Learning needs analysis
- Selection and preparation of participants
- Preparation and coordination out local activities (practice phase);
- Design of the trainings session and preparation of materials
- Delivery of sessions;
- The short and long term evaluation;
- Drafting and finalizing the manual;
- Report to the organizers;