“Yes,We KENya!” contributes to foster cooperation between Europe and Kenya and to promote activities aiming to enhance the quality and recognition of youth work while improving participants' level of competences, to favour their active participation in the society and to provide a response to social challenges. It aims to create a pool of trainers/multipliers able to act as promoters of Non-Formal Education, active citizenship and European democratic values in different contexts. Considering young people as strategic players in the future of society, the purpose of “Yes,WeKENya!” is creating a sustainable cooperation between Africa and Europe in the youth field through activities that will train kenyan, italian and spanish young people. It will also give the chance to young trainers previously trained by AICEM to challenge themselves, multiplying the work previously done and put into practice what learned in “Nio Far-We Are Together”, a project developed by AICEM in 2018 in a welcoming centre in Sardinia and in the area of Casamance (Senegal), of which “Yes, We KENya” represents the follow up. So partner organizations by identifying common needs behind the differences related to their own contexts and related trigger factors, have individuated the necessity to implement a project that could allow young people to be empowered through the acquisition of competences and tools in order to develop effective actions aiming at the promotion NFE tool within their communities. It will facilitate active participation of youth in policy making, raising their awareness about non-formal education as an important tool to fight lack of youth initiative and to provide participative processes.The creation of a pool of trainers, the availability of open sources materials, the network constructed and the creation of a toolkit will make the results durable and sustainable.

The project aims to empower young women with transversal competences which favour their personal and professional growth, enhancing their possibility to contribute to the development of the society. To favour this process, partners have identified a path to create and test an educational programme based on NFE methodology that foresees 3 main phases. The project has 6 main activities as described separately below:1) Kick-off Meeting / APV: A meeting to formally start the project. It is an opportunity for all project team members to meet and get to know each other well. 2)Training of youth workers : This activity is a capacity building for youth workers on entrepreneurship skills and gender issues to stimulate their creativity and critical thinking and prototyping the content of the educational app.3) Local initiatives :During this phase, the participants will concretely transform what they learn into practices by using competences acquired. Participants, singularly or in team, have to propose an initiative to disseminate/multiply the content of the TC in 2 different ways: 1) realizing an activity of education based on the educational programme on the prototype of the app with girls and young women of their community; 2) start a new action for his/her personal development in one of the three areas: private, professional or civic. 4) Evaluation meeting : The main aim of the meeting is to conduct an evaluation made of two main steps:In the first part will be done an internal evaluation of the local initiatives implemented. The second part will be dedicated to use all the feedback to finalize the educational programme and prepare all the input to terminate the online app.5) Final event ( conference ): The event will be a conference which will involve different stakeholders such as representatives of the formal education system (universities, schools), local authorities, representatives of third sector organizations, representatives of enterprises. The final conference will be an occasion to reflect on entrepreneurial skills for young women and girls with a focus on the situation of young women.6) Online APP developmentThis is an extended activity throughout the entire project timeline. It aims to produce the intellectual output of the project which is an educationnal app in youth work context.

The project aims to empower young women with entrepreneurial competences which favor their personal and professional growth, enhancing their possibility to contribute to the development of the society.The objectives of the project are in line with the objectives individuated by the Erasmus+ Programme Guide for the capacity building project in the field of youth and in particular: o foster cooperation and exchanges in the field of youth between Italy, Spain, Portugal and Senegal, four countries that even if have different experiences, have found a common need: supporting young women to acquire entrepreneurial competences.o foster the development, testing and launching of programmes of non-formal learning mobility. partners will create and test an educational programme supporting young women to acquire competences and skills to start their own initiatives within organizations they cooperate with or by themselves. The test of the programme through different steps based on the active involvement of the participants, will allow for finalizing it and to share the results online with potential stakeholders. To favor this process, partners have identified a path to create and test an educational programme based on NFE methodology, that foresees 3 main phases.In general the path is composed of:1) Preparation phase, including: a Kick off meeting and online meetings2) Implementation and follow up phase during which there will be: -First phase training course -Online training course -Job shadowing -Local activities -Evaluation meeting3) A closing phase with a final event

Quality youth projects (from idea to implementation) bring sustainability of youth work, raise capacities and motivation of youth workers, contribute to the recognition of youth work, bring better impact to young people and society, keep young people motivated and engaged, raises quality of learning and involvement through youth work, raises civic and democratic engagement and brings reputation to youth organisation and youth field in general. That is why we focus on importance of building capacities of youth workers to develop, prepare, apply and implement youth projects on high quality level. Responding to the relevant and realistic needs and challenges further brings the next level of problems that youth organisation found themselves in – solutions and ideas became vague, not innovative and limited. Building up on that, we have realised that for the innovative solutions, quality projects, sustainability of the youth programmes and stronger impact of our work, one of the main thing lacking in the youth sector is the strategic networking, establishing quality and meaningful national and especially international cooperation in the youth field among the youth organisations, but also with the youth authorities, decision and policy makers, institutions working with and for young people and even business sector. This synergy is crucial for success of the youth work and highly contributes to its recognition and validation. The aim of this project is to improve the quality of youth projects, foster the innovative approaches to project-based youth work and encourage quality structured networking and cooperation in youth work field.Specific Objective 1:To enhance socio-professional development and international cooperation of youth workers by strengthening their capacities in the field of project writing and project management and empower innovations in finding solutions and developing ideas.Specific Objective 2: To increase quality and strategic approach to cooperation and networking between youth We plan to achieve these aim and objectives through set of capacity building and mobility activities:1. Online partner meeting2. Training courses on using design thinking methodology for solution-based project ideas, project writing and project management for youth workers and on networking, quality cooperation in youth field and successful cross-sectoral cooperation3. Study visits between partners on quality of project management, implementation and cooperation with local authorities/youth institutions/other stakeholders4. MOOC and video tutorials on complete youth project writing5. Follow up practice activities of participants6. Digital interactive manual about using design thinking methodology to innovate project ideas7. Large scale event gathering youth workers, youth institutions, bodies, other stakeholders from other sectorsThe project gathers 8 partner organisations from 7 Programme and Neighbor countries and will last for 21 months.

"The project will strengthen cooperation on peace and security among youth activists in participating countries by providing a platform for constructive dialogue and exchange of ideas and opinions. The priority of the project is to give young people skills and space to express their vision of peace and security in their communities, their views on current affairs as well as their suggestions for resolving community issues.""YOUth lead Peace"" aims then to create a community of young people preventing violent extremism and promoting Human Rights in their local communities. For this purpose, our main references and resources in this journey will be Human Rights Education and Dr. King’s fundamental philosophy of Nonviolence.The main tools we will use to achieve our goal are Non Formal Education and Peer Education.Through this project we expect to reach the following objectives:1. Elaborate and disseminate new approach based on non-formal education methodology, peacebuilding and security, human right approach as well as the Kingian non-violence approach.2. Train 24 youth workers and provide them with knowledge and skills on peacebuilding and non-violence youth work that they will be able to disseminate through local activities in their respective countries.3.Organize workshops and events for the communities on local levels to reach more young people and raise awareness on topics of peace and non-violence. Moreover, giving them the tools to promote HR and prevent violent extremism.4.Provide online and offline spaces for dialogue on issues of security and peace on both community and international level through digital communication, mobility and online activities. 5.Putting the bases for the Youth Rights Defenders Committee in all participating organizations to continue follow-up activities in the field of youth and peace."