Mentor-Me-Project-Manual

A manual to guide and support young refugees interested in cross-border national or European voluntary service programmes. This manual navigates tools, resources and outcomes based on the efforts and all project outcomes achieved by Mentor Me project partners from Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain and Sweden.

The aim of this manual is to offer mentors and youth workers useful tools, engaging activities, and reliable resources, particularly relating to the context of Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Sweden. It is based on the valuable efforts of the migration-miteinander NGO and its partners, with a focus on the Mentor Me KA2 project. In addition, many positive outcomes from the earlier “moveurope!” efforts are shared. Moveurope! initiative’s knowledge and skill collection, combined with the all-inclusive mobility kit and training programme of the recent “Mentor Me” project, have cleared the path for a more sustainable development of an inclusive gateway that helps refugees and immigrants recognise their rights, benefit from the existing opportunities and services in Europe, and prepare themselves to be mobility mentors in the present and the future.

Authors:

• Lara Villieras-Guepey, Karla Kästner, Prathisha Hoffmann (migration_miteinander, Germany)
• Anmar Al Rikabi, Sukaina El Outa (IFYD, Bulgaria)
• Francesco Rossi, Sandro Coccoi (CIAC ETS, Italy)
• Eman Albohtori (Support Group Network, Sweden)
• Katarina Complova, Lucile Peyroux (Pistes Solidaires, France)
• Zoé Saine, Clara Cadena, Melanie Liu, Ella O’Reilly (Lighthouse Relief, Greece)

Revision:

• Anmar Al Rikabi
• Sukaina El Outa

Design:

• Sukaina El Outa

Evaluation and Monitoring:

• Irene Hernández Gómez

I. TACC – Youth Leadership and Advocacy Training Toolkit
II. TACC – Youth Leadership Training Curriculum
III. TACC – Youth Advocacy Training Curriculum

This manual has been created within the framework of TACC project “Take Action, Create the Change”, managed by the International Foundation for Y-PEER Development.

It consists of three main documents:
I. The theoretical part includes knowledge and information on leadership and advocacy elements that youth can be equipped with. It is developed by CONEXX-EU.
II. The leadership training curriculum which provides an agenda, sessions and toolkit to be used by youth workers and peer educators to indulge in their work and volunteerism. It is developed by IFYD.
III. The advocacy training curriculum that consists of an agenda, sessions and toolkit to be used by youth
workers and peer educators that supports them to implement their own activities and training locally and beyond. It is developed by IFYD.

Particular thanks is extended to the authors of this manual:
Anina Chileva, Ana Mosiashvili, Anmar Khalid, and Sukaina El Outa from IFYD and Laura Pardo from CONEXX EU. Similarly, many thanks to IFYD team members who contributed to developing the training curricula including Yuliya Andzhekarska, Feifei Zeng, Joana Branco Coelho and Anas Badawi. Also acknowledged are the partner organizations that supported with peer reviews during the whole process of developing this manual and the testing of the training curricula of TACC project: FuturEurope (Gizem Özöztürk Barutçu, Rolands Busers), Youth On Board (Sanja Maksimova, Pane Stefanov, Angela Vitanovska), Youth Human Impact (Magdalena Koniecko, Katarzyna Dębiec), CONEXX-EU (Laura Pardo Garcia, Amaia Garzon, Allende Solaun), Support Group Network (Eman Albohtori, Najat Almerdi, Bilal Almobarak) and Migration_Miteinander e.V. (Lara Villieras-Guepey, Carlo Alberto Italia and Tauqeer Kazmi). Last but not least, our team appreciates the participation and active involvement of promising youth workers when Leadership and Advocacy Training were implemented in Sofia, Bulgaria and Istanbul, Turkey, respectively.

Within the framework of “TACC” project, our mutual cooperation has paved the way to Take Action and Create the Change together!

Empowering Youth: A Pathway to Meaningful Adolescent and Youth Engagement

This guidance has been created within the framework of the TACC project, “Take Action, Create the Change,” managed by the International Foundation for Y-PEER Development, and funded by the European Union.

The process was led by migration_miteinander, and it represents the second expected project result. The development of this guidance relied on the following methods:

• Research on the topic of meaningful engagement of adolescents and youth, which involved consultations with local youth and organizations in each participating country, literature reviews, and focus groups with young people, especially those at risk of social exclusion.
• Conducting around 100 interviews in person and online with young people from disadvantaged groups, youth workers involved in working with disadvantaged youth, decision-makers, and representatives of organizations and institutions working for youth. The objective of these interviews was to collect real-life case studies of youth participation and civic engagement from all stakeholders involved in these processes.

We express our gratitude to the youth from various regions around the globe for their valuable contributions to the creation of this collection of resources. We wish to acknowledge and thank those who dedicated their precious time to participate in interviews, focus group discussions, and the online questionnaire.

Our deepest gratitude to all the professionals, partners, and colleagues who contributed their expertise and knowledge to the development of this guidance. It underwent numerous consultations, drafts, tests, and modifications before its release to the public, with a focus on reaching youth workers and young people.

Special thanks go to the individuals who played significant roles in developing this guidance, including Carlo Alberto Italia, Solène Barbier, and Lara Villieras-Guepey from migration_miteinander e.V.; Anmar Al-rikabi and Sukaina El outa from the International Foundation for Y-PEER Development; Gizem Özöztürk Barutçu and Rolands Busers from FuturEurope; Pane Stefanov and Angela Vitanovska from Youth On Board; Magdalena Koniecko and Katarzyna Dębiec from Youth Human Impact; Amaia Garzon and Allende Solaun from CONEXX-EU; and Eman Albohtori and Bilal Almobarak and Mahmoud Younes from Support Group Network.

Together, within “TACC” project, this collaborative effort aims to Take Action and Create the Change!

Guideline-Nairobi-Summit-2019

As you know the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 is coming soon.
At PETRI-Sofia we prepared a toolkit which will help you get engaged and effectively participate in this important global event.

Let us introduce you the “Advocacy Guidelines for Nairobi” – attached here. In this document you can find information about the summit and what actions you can undertake before, during and after Nairobi.

Feel free to spread it widely within your networks and to share it with partners.

Warm regards,

PETRI Team