“Young people are engines of growing economies; they are the most vibrant section of society and constitute the prime driver of change”. These words by UNDP Resident Representative Mahmood Ayub make up the foreword of a brochure recently published by UNDP Turkey on “Best Practices in Youth Work”.
In the preparation process of the 2008 National Human Development Report on “Youth in Turkey”, a call for project proposals was made in August 2007 in order to identify the best practices in youth work. The projects were evaluated and selected by youth and development experts as well as officials from UNDP and the European Union Information Centre. Twenty projects that were selected as “best practices” were awarded at the “Best Practices in Youth Work” Award Ceremony organized by UNDP Turkey with the support of the British Council, in Ankara on 4 October 2007 with the participation of State Minister responsible for youth and sports Murat Basesgioglu.
In order to shed more light on these “best practices” and to share them with institutions working in the field of youth, the awarded projects were collected in a brochure to be distributed along with the 2008 National Human Development Report.
This brochure therefore honours these youth groups and NGOs in their work to increase youth’s capabilities thus transforming them into active citizens, arm them for current and future challenges, and in their efforts to combat poverty, lack of quality in education, intolerance towards differences, unemployment, lack of participation and environmental degradation.
To read the “Best Practices in Youth Work” brochure, please click here.
