The mission of the organization is to involve young people to social, cultural, political life of Ukraine with the help of organizing education events; to promote European values for Ukrainian youth; to form a new generation of politicians for independent Ukraine, and to advance democratic values among young people; to promote public participation (specifically youth participation) in the political process.
For 25 years Youth Alternative has worked for civil society development in Ukraine as the basis of an independent, democratic, constitutional state.
The goal of the project is psychological adaptation, psychological stress relief, increasing self-esteem by women among IDPs, preventing discrimination, conflict management, establishing a dialogue between IDPs and new communities through a cycle of training, counseling and social activities for IDPs with an emphasis on women.
Project objectives:
Donor: OSCE
Brief Description of Assignment(s) carried out and their results: 20 trainings (stress management with elements of art therapy, time management, stereotypes and conflicts, effective communication, job search, etc.) and individual consultations.
Trainings aimed on promotion and support of women's integration and adaptation processes among women in host communities as well as involvement of a wide range of community members in social activities with IDPs, which are aimed at rallying the community, harmonious coexistence. Additional value - development of volunteering, social and community initiatives.
Total number of participants in the events: 392.
146 participants took part in the events in Vinnytsia (96 IDPs, 34 community representatives, 16 representatives of the authorities), 130 in Drohobych (67 IDPs, community representatives - 32, representatives of authorities - 26, media - 5), Chervonograd - 116 (60 IDPs, 32 community representatives, 24 representatives of government institutions). Total number of IDPs - 223, 98 of the activists and of the local community - 98 and authorities -71.
Profile(s) of Professional Staff Provided by Your Organization: Project manager and regional coordinators.
Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff: management, trainings.
Partners in the project:
Vinnystya – NGO VIS, Svitlana Dubina
Lviv First Foundation, Roman Koshovyy
Objectives: The project was developed by the UNICEF Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS and NGO Youth Policy Labs. The project summarizes the existing age legal provisions for children, adolescents and youth in 70 areas in 22 countries and territories of the CEE and CIS countries. The data are grouped in six thematic sections - civil and legal rights, political participation, social participation, economic participation and education, health care, and security.
Donor: UNICEF
Brief Description of Assignment(s) carried out and their results: 6 focus groups on youth related issues.
Profile(s) of Professional Staff Provided by Your Organization: facilitators.
Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff: facilitation of 6 focus groups.
Partners in the project: NGO Youth Policy Labs
Objectives: initiate joint discussion of youth among IDPs and local community youth in selected regions on how to integrate IDPs into new environment, on the role of IDPs in new communities; train youth among IDPs & local youth how to co-operate with local authorities in order to make voice of youth be heard & taken into account by decision-making as well as promote active citizenship in general; raise capacity of youth among IDPs & local youth in the field of street art (murals) as a tool for building interaction between IDPs and locals within the community. Initiate real joint work on several murals after development of sketches with key (visual) messages to local communities on such topics like coexistence and integration, stereotypes, youth activism, peace etc.; improve knowledge and skills of young IDPs in the field of opportunities for cross-border cooperation in order to strengthen the role and impacts of IDPs’ NGOs.
Donor: The Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation
Brief Description of Assignment(s) carried out and their results:
Activity 1.
Four 3-days sessions in Ukraine (Odesa and Chernivtsi) and Georgia (Kvemo Kartli and Samegrelo) for youth among IDPs & local youth with following parts:
Participants: youth among IDPs, local youth, local activists & representatives of IDPs’ NGOs or NGOs dealing with IDPs’ issues.
After all sessions, there will be announced competition among the project participants in each project location – only 1 sketch pro location will be selected. The jury – representatives of local authorities, professional painters, local activists (min. 3 persons in general). We expect to gather min. 10 sketches in general for the competition.
Number of participants – 100.
Activity 2.
After the selection of best sketches, we will launch the process of getting permissions by local authorities. But the main activity is realization of sketched murals (4 murals).
Participants: participants of local project sessions as well as community members. Professional painters will be engaged to support the whole process.
Number of participants per each painting session: 15-30 persons (45-90 persons in total).
Duration of each painting session: 2 days.
Sizes of murals: max. 2,5m x 4m.
Media support: Information about murals will be disseminated via social media & other sources in order to get more attention to the activity. There will be official openings with representatives of local community activists & authorities. At the same time results of this activity will be presented during the activity 3 in form of small photo exhibition (photos will be taken during the painting process).
Activity 3.
2 days bilateral session in Ukraine (Odesa) on opportunities for IDPs’ NGOs and NGOs dealing with IDPs’ issues within cross-border cooperation programmes and networking.
Participants: young activists among IDPs, representatives of IDPs’ NGOs or NGOs dealing with IDPs’ issues (all – participants of the projects’ sessions within activity 1). Selection will be maid based on activity during the whole project and motivation letter written by the pretenders (explaining their ability to use such information etc.).
Number of participants: 25 persons (10 from Georgia, 15 from Ukraine).
Profile(s) of Professional Staff Provided by Your Organization: management, trainings, support of development & implementation of local initiatives.
Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff: management, trainings, mural preparation & negotiation with authorities, final conference.
Partners in the project: NGO “GAEN” (Georgia)
Objectives: promote the integration of young IDPs into new communities through joint projects with the participation of the IDPs and the local community.
Donor: U.S. Embassy
Brief Description of Assignment(s) carried out and their results:
6 two-day training courses in Lviv, Vinnytsa, Dnipro, Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizzya on resource mobilization, team building, dialogue and conflict resolution within the community, participants will develop a project plan and volunteer social initiatives, as well as learn to seek funding and implement project initiatives.
Preparation and implementation 19 projects and volunteer initiatives that will promote the integration of young IDPs into new communities, which are aimed at rallying the community, harmonious coexistence.
As a result of the initiatives were held 6 press-conferences and one big conference in Kyiv.
Number of audience reached by the project – 10000.
Profile(s) of Professional Staff Provided by Your Organization: The main staff engaged in the organization and implementation of the project were project manager and regional coordinators.
Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff: management, trainings, support of development & implementation of local initiatives.
Partners in the project:
Dnipro - NGO "MIX", Kateryna Zezulina
Kharkiv - Company «DENDY-PROmo», Denis Tkachev
Zaporizhzhya - YA, Denis Kasyanenko
Kherson – GO Spektr UA
Vinnytsia - YA, Svetlana Dubina
Lviv - Lviv First Foundation, Roman Koshovyy
Objectives: the project aims to create synergy between Ukrainian cultural and sporting events (throughout Ukraine) and the initiatives of the European Union. This project contributes significantly to the cultural and sports diplomacy of the EU and Ukraine. These two areas are becoming more and more important for both parties, and this gives all participants the opportunity to get a new space for exchanging opinions, establishing new contacts and building networks during events covered by the project.
Donor: EU Delegation to Ukraine
Brief Description of Assignment(s) carried out and their results: As part of this project, the EU Delegation in Ukraine informed young people about European values, lifestyles and rich cultural heritage of Ukraine and the European Union, and popularizes the broad context of EU-Ukraine cooperation. It will help participants in cultural and sporting events learn more about other EU activities, cultural cooperation and sports, and contribute to these areas. The project involves various types of participation, including diplomats and experts, quizzes and quests, workshops and presentations of educational opportunities for youth, etc.
We ensured the participation of the EU Delegation in 6 national and regional cultural and artistic events: KISFF, Gogolfeset, O-Fest, Euromarathon, Euromarathon in Kramatorsk, Odessa International Film Festival. Reached audience – 500000.
Profile(s) of Professional Staff Provided by Your Organization: The main staff engaged in the organization and implementation of the project were head of NGO and project managers.
Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff: Negotiation with potential partners, development of cooperation framework, presentations.
Objectives: integration and enhancing the capacity of IDPs at local level in Ukraine. Raising awareness of how to address the socio-economic problems of internally displaced persons within host communities.
Donor: Council of Europe
Brief Description of Assignment(s) carried out and their results:
Training component: conducting trainings «Young people among IDPs - ways to solve economic and social problems». Duration 2 days. The goals are to provide participants with the knowledge and skills on how to successfully find work in host communities - job search, self-presentation skills, and job preparation documents; how to start your own business, write a business plan, do PR and promote products; success stories from IDPs (opening new business); solving social problems of youth, mechanisms of interaction with the authorities, self-organization of youth among IDPs, rules for the opening of the NGO. Creating an online course on topics like "Opening Your Own Business," "Mechanisms for Collaboration with Government" to disseminate information among more beneficiaries.
Result: 4 two-days trainings in Dnipro, Mariupol, Kramatorsk and Kyiv. Total number of participants – 1000.
Methodical component: preparation of methodical recommendations for the relocated youth on issues of increasing economic activity, adaptation and socialization in the new household environment. These recommendations will contain information and answers to the question "How to open your own business", "Mechanisms for cooperation with the authorities". Preparation of methodological recommendations for state authorities on increasing economic activity, adaptation and socialization in the new domestic environment of forced migrant youth and methods of working with her.
Have been developed 2 manuals "Improvement of economic activity, adaptation and socialization in the new household environment for the youth of the higher education institution". Methodological recommendations for IDPs and "Increase of economic activity, adaptation and socialization in the new household environment of youth among IDPs. Methodological recommendations for state authorities". They are available online.
8 video tutorials have been developed and recorded: "Youth cooperation with state authorities", "Registration of public associations", "Project management", "Fundraising", "Job search", "How to write a resume", "Creation and opening your own business", "How to write a business plan".
Оrganizational Component: Career Fairs for young people among IDPs. Duration - 1 day. Objectives: establishing social relations, communicating with host communities; informing youth among IDPs about possible vacancies and job offers in host communities; skills in writing a resume, the origin of interviews, etc.
Organized 4 career fairs (Dnipro, Mariupol, Kramatorsk, Kyiv). Total number of participants – 1500.
Total reached audience - 15000.
Profile(s) of Professional Staff Provided by Your Organization: The main staff engaged in the organization and implementation of the project were project manager and regional coordinators.
Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff: management, trainings, organisation of career fairs, research and development of methodological recommendations.
Partners in the project:
NGO "MIX”
NGO FREE UA
Regional Training Center for Business Skills "Priazovye"
Conference Center "Parle"
Coworking 365
National University of Food Technologies of Kyiv
Kyiv City Employment Center
In 2015 Youth Alternative used renewed Endowment support to continue and expand its government internship and regional exchange programs.
Objectives:
Donor: NED
Brief Description of Assignment(s) carried out and their results:
The organization selected 30 students from leading Kyiv universities to serve eight-month fellowships in the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s national legislature. In addition, were selected 126 students to serve five-month fellowships at local councils in 18 regions.
The interns participated in 46 events, including orientations, training seminars and roundtable discussions. Thirty-six orientations and training seminars taught the interns about government institutions, public policy, legislative affairs and political processes. The interns received trainings in public speaking, leadership skills and organizational management, which prepared them for leadership roles in the future.
An additional 180 students from 12 regions participated in 8 cross regional exchanges, trainings and presentations. Educational booklets, with a total print run of 500 copies, were published and distributed.
To help Ukrainian youth better understand cross regional sentiments about each other and dispel stereotypes emanating from Russian media and a dearth of interpersonal communication, Youth Alternative organized eight three-day visits for students from twelve regions of Ukraine. Students were selected from Donetsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Odesa, Mykolaiv to visit students in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil and Chernivtsi. Each western city hosted participants from a total of four southern and eastern cities on two separate occasions to engage in discussions about democracy, tolerance and governance; students also took part in city tours and participated in free forums to exchange their ideas and beliefs. Students presented their experiences in each region during the visits. Following the visits, two students were selected from each region to visit Kyiv for a final presentation about the program, their experiences and whether they managed to move beyond personal linguistic, ideological, religious and regional differences.
Youth Alternative also published and distributed educational booklets and nine newsletters, with a total print run of 500, on topics chosen by the interns, who were also responsible for producing materials and writing articles for the booklets. Five roundtable discussions and five book presentations were held to discuss the topics addressed in each booklet. Finally, the organization added the interns’ names to an existing database of past participants for future networking and other alumni activities.
Profile(s) of Professional Staff Provided by Your Organization:
The main staff - engaged in the organization and implementation of the project; organization and holding of trainings, seminars, exchange visits, meetings and analytical data review etc.
Personnel involved - regional coordinators; promote and assist in the implementation of measures in the regions of Ukraine.
Involved staff - trainers.
Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff:
Partners in the project (18):
Chernivtsi - "Union of Active Youth", Eugenia Oleinik
Ternopil - Youth Governmental Union, Igor Protsyk
Dnipro - NGO "MIX", Kateryna Zezulina
Kharkiv - Company «DENDY-PROmo», Denis Tkachev
Chernihiv - NGO Youth Information Centre, Oksana Stelmach
Vinnytsia - YA, Svetlana Dubina
Cherkasy - Committee of Voters of Ukraine, Anastasia Prokopenko
Mykholaiv - "Youth Municipality", Oleksandr Maksimenko
Kherson - Youth Governmental Union, Anastasia Shevchuk
Rivne - Zeon, Mykhola Orlov
Lutsk - Press Club, Bohdana Stelmach
Lviv - Lviv First Foundation, Roman Koshovyy,
Odesa - YA, Elena Saykovska,
Ivano-Frankivsk – CVU, Maxim Lysyuk
Kirovograd - Student Government, Yaroslav Lanetskyy
Zaporizhzhya - YA, Denis Kasyanenko
Published materials
www.ya.org.ua/images/pdf/14-15/1.pdf
www.ya.org.ua/images/pdf/14-15/5.pdf
www.ya.org.ua/images/pdf/14-15/4.pdf
www.ya.org.ua/images/pdf/14-15/3.pdf
www.ya.org.ua/images/pdf/14-15/2.pdf
Objectives: The goal of the Internship Program is to create a Youth human resources reserve for Service Centers of MOI of Ukraine through attracting non-corrupted, client-oriented and qualified young specialists, who share with Country Leaders and MOI of Ukraine the striving to reform the law enforcement system of Ukraine by increasing human resources capacity and creating new standards of work, developing of trainings methodology, training modules for providing the education of young professionals.
Project objectives:
Donor: US Embassy, Kyiv
Brief Description of Assignment(s) carried out and their results:
Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff:
Administrational support, participation in conducting interviews
Partners in the project:
Head Service Center of MOI of Ukraine
EUAM Ukraine
Objectives: improve knowledge of the EU (institutions, mission, values etc.), dissemination of objective information about the EU
Donor: Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine
Brief Description of Assignment(s) carried out and their results:
Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff:
Update of the Euroquiz website, creation of a team of experts, drafting sets of questions/answers and rules for Euroquiz to be played at website, PR, holding Euroquiz (all its parts), organise discussion clubs, prepare and organize final event in Kyiv, evaluation of the project.
Partners in the project:
Objectives: Using the Polish experience with the implementation of the decentralization of governance we will teach young local semi-government clerks (under 35) and the most active young community leaders (under 35 as well) how to use new and transparent mechanisms in provision of the public services; how to implement effective policies in the area / region using mechanisms based on the mutual participation of government and the community; and how to start a dialogue with the community. Furthermore, we will provide youth with the tools to respond to the challenges of the modern world in matters of decentralization, teach them how to establish the dialogue with the authorities and influence the policy-making process and monitor authorities’ activity. So main objectives are 1) strengthen the capacity of communities and local governments to provide public services and implement effective policies using transparent mechanisms based on mutual participation; 2) raise the level of youth engagement in a public dialogue and the cooperation with the authorities, to improve the impact on development and policy; 3) form active citizens who are ready to take an active role in the reformation of the country (decentralization).
Donor: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Poland and Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development
Brief Description of Assignment(s) carried out and their results:
Profile(s) of Professional Staff Provided by Your Organization:
Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff:
Partners in the project:
Dnipro - NGO "MIX", Kateryna Zezulina
Vinnytsia - YA, Svetlana Dubina
Odesa – YA, Oleksandra Riazantseva
Ternopil - Youth Governmental Union, Igor Protsyk
The project aims to conduct trainings for interns of local governments on policy analysis, strategic planning and projects writing in order to develop their socially important projects & contribute to the development of the territory in which they live. Presentation of the research in community, the media, research institutions, representation of projects developed in local government.
Donor: US Embassy, Kyiv
Brief Description of Assignment(s) carried out and their results:
Objectives and results:
1. Teaching young people how to conduct a comprehensive analysis of programs and strategies for socio-economic development of the region, local budgets of relevant administrative units as well as decisions of local governments on their compliance with the real situation and the expectations of citizens
- 10 trainings
2. Drawing / writing active analytical materials by young people - regulations and other regulatory legal acts necessary for community development and publication
- Compiled and published brochures
3. Presentation of brochures in 10 cities
Profile(s) of Professional Staff Provided by Your Organization:
The main staff organizing and conducting trainings, elaborated reviewing documents, brochure
Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff:
Partners in the project:
Chernivtsi - "Union of Active Youth", Eugenia Oleinik
Ternopil - Youth Governmental Union, Igor Protsyk
Dnipro - NGO "MIX", Kateryna Zezulina
Kharkiv - Company «DENDY-PROmo», Denis Tkachev
Chernihiv - NGO Youth Information Centre, Oksana Stelmach
Vinnytsia - YA, Svetlana Dubina
Cherkasy - Committee of Voters of Ukraine, Anastasia Prokopenko
Mykholaiv - "Youth Municipality", Oleksandr Maksimenko
Kherson - Youth Governmental Union, Anastasia Shevchuk
Rivne - Zeon, Mykhola Orlov
Lutsk - Press Club, Bohdana Stelmach
Lviv - Lviv First Foundation, Roman Koshovyy,
Odesa - YA, Elena Saykovska,
Ivano-Frankivsk – CVU, Maxim Lysyuk
Kirovograd - Student Government, Yaroslav Lanetskyy
Zhytomyr – “Suchasny Format”, Janna Solovyova
Zaporizhzhya - YA, Denis Kasyanenko
Published materials
www.ya.org.ua/images/pdf/14-15/6.pdf
Objectives: to learn the features of the socio-economic development of Sweden, to study the processes of decision-making, political system and the nature of the decentralization of Sweden, to study the features of the judiciary system, to study the mechanism of ensuring the independence of judges, to study features of innovative development and specific state support to Sweden, to study the energy and environmental policies (especially the development of alternative energy sources)
Donor: Bohdan Hawrylyshyn Charitable Foundation
Brief Description of Assignment(s) carried out and their results:
Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff:
Objectives: To establish a dialogue between young people among the IDPs and the authorities, volunteers, representatives of NGOs; to destruct stereotypes in the perception of each other; to form space where you can hear each other's thoughts and develop a common vision of solving conflicts and problems among young IDPs; to exchange experience of public activity; to teach participants how to influence the government, to ensure close contacts between young people among IDPs and active youth.
Donor: Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Brief Description of Assignment(s) carried out and their results:
Profile(s) of Professional Staff Provided by Your Organization:
organizing and conducting trainings, elaboration of reviewing documents, preparation of the brochure.
Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff:
Holding four three-day training sessions, presentations made proposals to the authorities.
Partners in the project:
Dnipro - NGO "MIX", Kateryna Zezulina
Kharkiv - Company «DENDY-PROmo», Denis Tkachev
Vinnytsia - YA, Svetlana Dubina
Zaporizhzhya - YA, Denis Kasyanenko
Objectives: The aim of the „Hopework“ project is to promote entrepreneurship and to create more micro-entrepreneurship possibilities in Ukraine for individuals and companies willing to provide their services to foreign markets via internet. At the same time, we help to reduce acute shortage of skilled workforce, which a number of companies in Estonia face. The planned project aim to set up infrastructure, which enables (1) Estonian (and other) companies to provide long-distance work opportunities to people from Ukraine; (2) companies to hire workforce remotely on pay-per-hour and pay-per-project basis; (3) Ukrainians to provide their skills and services to potential customers in Estonia via internet; (4) to transfer money and monitor remote workforce more conveniently than any single company alone could do.
Donor: Development- and humanitarian cooperation funding of Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Brief Description of Assignment(s) carried out and their results:
Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff:
Dissemination in Ukraine (distributing information about the project) using our wide network of contacts for attracting workforce as well as disseminating information.
Partners in the project:
NGO Youth in Science and Business Foundation
Next year will be very important – it is the 20. anniversary of the project of internships in the Parliament and the 10. anniversary of the project of internships in local governments. We decided to summarize our results, analyze the capacity of the NGO, define our priorities and new activities.
We received a grant for organizational development (with such elements like the program of strategic development, communication and fundraising strategies).
According to this project we made: assessment of institutional capacity, development of the changes' strategy (which should provide the long-term sustainability), we understood and focused on our competitive advantages, developed the strategy of productive communication with the external environment and our customers.
On this basis we are developing our new fundraising and communications strategy for 2016-2019.
We believe that the combination of organizational capacity assessment methodology (OCA, Pact) and basic methods of organizational strategies development will give us tools for effective change management.
US Embassy Project: “Motivating and Training Young People to Influence Local Policy”
Goal: To train young people to influence policy-making at the regional level and involve young people to actively participate in governing procedure, passionate groups of youngsters to be able to maintain public control over the authorities.
According to the project, Youth Alternative plans to:
The project "Students for Parliament" has been started in 1997.
Area of distribution - Kyiv
Donor: NED
The project "Students for local government" has been started in 2002.
The area, where the program is distributed:
The purpose of internship programs:
Focus areas:
Results / Accomplishments:
Participation in professional internship is a powerful impulse for graduates’ career. During internship young professionals practice the knowledge obtained in universities, study the process of lawmaking, get invaluable experience of making the legal and political decisions. It helps them to continue their professional, political career, scientific and research activities, work in the business structures.
For 15 years, about 3,000 students have been trained during projects of Youth Alternative. To this date, three former interns are MPs of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. They are Pavlo Rozenko (“UDAR"), Lesya Orobets (“Batkivshchyna”), Vyacheslav Kyrylenko (“Batkivshchyna”).
After the internship, interns continue their careers:
Sharing Experience in Organizing Parliamentary Internship Programs in Ukraine and Moldova
Donor Black Sea Trust (Black Sea Trust for Democracy)
With the support of the Black Sea Trust (Black Sea Trust for Democracy) YA launched a pilot internship program in the Parliament of Moldova for Moldovan students. Project coordinators from Moldova with graduates and interns of the "Youth for Parliament" program had an official meeting with the Ambassador of Moldova to Ukraine Dr. Ion Stevile and the members of Committees. In Moldova YA signed a cooperation agreement with the Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament Marian Lupu, student are going to start doing internships on April 25th. As a part of internship they will visit to Ukraine, and Moldovan interns will visit the Parliament of Ukraine and get acquainted with their Ukrainian colleagues.
Thus, YA doesn’t only share its experience with Moldovan partners, but also establishes friendly relationship aming future youth elite who will soon address the issues of bilateral relations between our two neighboring countries.
Overcoming stereotypes and prejudices in the field of interethnic relations among youth
Donor: US Embassy
Goal: Attracting young people to follow cross-cultural dialogue, organizing and conducting studies in the field of ethnic policy on regional level.
According to the project YA:
From Magdeburg to your City: in the Eyes of Those who aren’t Indifferent
Donor International Renaissance Foundation
The aim of the project was to shape understanding of the traditions of Magdeburg rights among local officials and involve them in current European programs, and the search of active young people interested in the development of local self-government in order to support their commitment to European values.
The project was aimed at raising awareness among local community members of the origins of institutions of local government, their connection with the traditions of Magdeburg rights. Moreover, the project seeks to promote remote areas, facilitate acceptance of European integration and compliance trends in the development of local government according to relevant European trends.
For this purpose YA has conducted nationwide competition within the framework on which young people developed presentations of their regions/cities in the light of its system of local self-government, establishment of European legal systems, development in accordance to European models, and prepared the appropriate essays. The best presentation is posted on the website of the organization, on YouTube, on social networks and the sites of partner organizations.
Analytical support to "Conscious Choice" campaign, poverty reduction, social protection, pension reform in the programs and activities of political parties
The project was implemented in 2006 with the support of the International Fund “Vidrodzhennya” ("Revival")
In a very short period of time "Conscious Choice 2006" campaign was intended to change the voter's motivation in choosing political forces, whose actions, programs, team approach prove their ability of responsibility and competence to manage state.
Organization of debate areas (square tables UNIAN, discussions at Interfax-Ukraine, roundtables in Liga, TV debate on Channel 5, Talk Show on ICTV and radio Era FM, local media clubs and hearing in 15 regions of Ukraine ) must change practice of irresponsible populist politicians technological campaigns for competition of programs, ideologies, beliefs and teams organizing field Debate.
The project is a study on one of the main themes of the campaign to overcome poverty, social security, pension reform in the programs and activities of political parties. The results were presented in Kyiv and regions. Major political promises of eight key political forces have been printed in the form of booklets. It had to suppose to conscious choice of voters.
Workshops - trainings in the local self-government development for newly elected deputies of the local councils
Donor Westminster Foundation for Democracy
Project started in 2002 to promote the sharing knowledge and skills with young newly elected local councils deputies:
Democracy and Market Economy Seminars in the regions
Donor Center for International Private Enterprise
Economic Seminars for Future Leaders
Donor Center for International Private Enterprise
In 1998, Youth Alternative launched Economic Seminars for Future Leaders project aimed at increasing young leaders' understanding of the principles of market economy. During 1998-1999 Youth Alternative organized six seminars. These seminars introduced Western economic values to young people who would likely play future leading roles in Ukraine. Such values included market-based democracy as well as the rule of law.
The goals of the seminars were:
Get-out-the-vote campaign
Youth Alternative was created in 1994 as an election project of the Union of Ukrainian Students. The goal of Youth Alternative was to attract young people to participate actively in Ukraine’s first democratic elections. Ukraine’s young people provided to be more pro-democratic and pro-market than their elder co-citizens. However, their political nihilism could have negatively affected the results of election. The founders of Youth Alternative found that active participation of young people in the voting would be vital for country’s future development.
Youth Alternative focused on 90 electoral districts in 14 oblasts (regions) of Ukraine where pro-democratic candidates had a good chance to win. Youth Alternative members distributed get-out-the-vote leaflets, organized rock-n-roll concerts and made political ads in local media. 400 students from 14 regions were involved in conducting this project.