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ACCESSActive Citizenship:
Enhancing Political Participation of Migrant Youth
EU – wide seminar in Brussels,
13 May 2015
ACCESS empowering migrant youth
Launching the Self-Assessment Tool (SAT)
SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOL (SAT)
Disseminate project outcomes
Share good practises in multiple languages
Opportunity to compare and assess own practices
>> www.accessyouth.eu <<
PROJECT OUTCOMES
Insights into country level activities
Access to all reports produced
Discussion paper (EN,FR)
Peer Review City Report
Municipal background report
SAT Questionnaire
Reflect your answers to results from other cities
BARCELONA
HELSINKI
MARSEILLE
PRAGUE
CLUJ NAPOCA
Insights to municipalities strengths and good practices
Selected statements under each themes
COMPARISON AND RESULTS
Results are based on the analysis of interviews
NO ANSWERS NOYES
View results of each stakeholder groups in each municipality
STRENGHTS AND GOOD PRACTISES
Insights into each Peer Review category Participation
Impact
Motivation, Trust, Belonging
Capability and Knowledge
Strategy
Strengths and Good practises to replicate in other cities
REPORTS
Your SAT results Statements and your answers
Results of each city
Using SAT materials Explore ways for youth
participation
Opportunity to replicate good
practises across Europe
Strengthen existing structures
ACCESS Peer Advisors - Helsinki
ACCESS HELSINKI
TEAM SCHOOL/ ACTIVE YOUTH/ COSMO
ACTIVITIES
OUTCOMES
Confidence
Active participation
Critical thinking
ACCESS Peer Advisors, Spain
• Different ages and nationality
– Ages: 22-33 years
– Nationalities: Peru, Ecuador,
Morocco, France, Armenia,
Colombia, Pakistan, Brazil, Chile, and
Mexico
Topic 1. Backgrounds
1. Active participation of young people
2. Political participation
3. Entrepreneurship and leisure
4. Non-formal education.
Topic 3. Subjects
Topic 3. Activities
Dissemination activities : facebook, twitter, Google+…
Meetings with existing NGOs and Barcelona institutions :
– Entrepreneurship institutions Youth Council (CJB)
– Seminars empowering young’s to participate in consulates,
– Participation on existing meetings with experts and politicians
All the networking like Barcelona Activa, Pla Jove, Punt de informacio Jove, etc.,
don’t have a proper communication thought specially to encourage and promote
entrepreneurial young people.
We must give a real voice to young immigrants in the city
Participate in instructor training courses and incorporate young trainees for
training monitors or other similar formations.
Make a paper on the concept of citizenship and the involvement of political and
associative level in the city of Barcelona
Topic 4. Recomendation
ACCESS Peer Advisors, France
ACCESS Peer Advisors, Czech Republic
ACCESS Peer Advisors, Romania
awareness-raising and building of networks
empower and enable youth
Migrant youth involvementat local, national and international level
Policy Improvements
Awareness-raising and building of networks
Migrant youth involvementat local, national and international level
Policy ImprovementsCapacity building
Awareness-raising and building of networks
New tool
New source of information
New „stage” for multicultural actors
The launching of "Clujmulticultural" Platform
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination - 21 March
Community Involvement
Local impact
Public opinion
influence
solutions
involvement
assess and improve
Meetings with policy makers
Changes
ACCESS Peer Review
WHY ADVANCE THE PARTICIPATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE?
1) they are residents and have the right to participation.
2) participatory democracy requires early education into it leading to active
participation also in adult age.
3) they are experts on their own life circumstances and listening them
results in better services for them.
PARTICIPATION - DIMENSIONS
Political participation can take place in formal or informal arenas.
There are multiple forums and channels for participation.
The rules for participatory forums can be based on law, agreement or
practice.
Some forums are general, some specifically for young people.
Political action has collective and individual forms.
Participation can happen on invitation (from the top-down) or out of own
initiative (from the bottom up).
Political action can happen reactively or proactively.
PARTICIPATION - FORMS
Representative participation
Participation through attendance
Advocacy based participation
Project-based participation
Open participation
Deliberative participation
Activism
PEER REVIEW METHOD
Peers: municipal officers and young persons
Discussed and agreed on the aims and the framework of the review
Identified the parties and persons to be interviewed in their own city
Interviewed their peers in cities they reviewed
Evaluated the structures and practices in the city & made
recommendations utilizing their own insight and expertise
PEER REVIEW VISITS
In Helsinki, Barcelona, Marseille, Cluj Napoca and Prague (district 14)
Between Oct. 2014 – Feb. 2015
Three days long visits
20 interviews in each city (0,5-1 hour)
Interviewees: members of youth council (or equivalent), other young
residents, municipal officers, politicians, representatives NGOs and
migrant communities
INTERVIEWS
Interviews were based on prepared sets of open questions formulated for
different target groups
Additional questions and follow-up questions were formulated by the
interviewers for each interview
After each interview an initial analysis of it was made by the working
pair
All findings and recommendations were discussed and agreed by the
whole review group
INITIAL ANALYSIS = EVALUATION
1. evaluating strenghts, good practices, weaknesses & formulating recommendations (open formulation)
2. assessment of indicators (structured)
KEY CONCEPTS -> INDICATORS
Participation
-> rigths, structures, opportunities
Impact
-> results of participation
Motivation & inclusion
-> requirements for participation
Capability & knowledge
-> necessary for participation
Strategy
-> enhancing participation
INDICATORS - PARTICIPATION
There are participating structures specifically for young people (e.g. youth
council or equivalent). YES
The youth council (or equivalent) has active connections with wider
community of young people in the municipality. YES
There are multiple ways for taking part, telling own views and making
initiatives (e.g. hearings, internet based channels, youth participatory
budgeting etc.). YES
Young people with migrant background are specifically encouraged to
participate. NO
INDICATORS - IMPACT
Young people do get feedback on their initiatives. YES
Young actors, including migrants, are pleased with the contacts and
networks created during their action. YES
…feel that they gained important knowledge through their action. YES
…feel that they gained new useful skills through their action. YES
Youth council (or equivalent) is regularly consulted on topical matters by
the municipality. NO
INDICATORS MOTIVATION AND INCLUSION
Local politicians meet with young people, including migrants from time
to time. YES
Migrant communities are encouraging young people to participate in the
society. YES
NGOs involved with young people are willing and capable of integrating
migrants in their activities. YES
Municipal actors are conducting multiple measures in order to promote
young migrants’ involvement in the city. NO
INDICATORSCAPABILITY AND KNOWLEDGE
There are information and counselling centres or points (physically or
virtually) for young people in the city. YES
There is enough knowledge available for municipal officers about young
residents, including migrants and their situation. YES
Young interviewees feel that they have good knowledge of how the
municipality works. NO
There is training for politicians in working with youth council and
meeting young people, including migrants. NO
INDICATORS - STRATEGY
There is a strategy for engaging young residents in the society at local
level. YES
There are reasonable resources for the implementation of the strategy.
YES
The leadership of the strategy is on a high political level. YES
The implementation of the strategy is monitored. YES
Young people, including migrants are involved in executing of the
strategy. NO
…in monitoring the implementation of the strategy. NO
IDENTIFIED STRENGTHS / 1
There is a Youth Council in the city. Its members are highly motivated
and committed to their work. They are actively trying to get the young
people’s voice heard. Municipal officers assist them with grant
applications and other administrative issues.
City administration and city district(s) recognize the need to adjusted
approach to youth with use of modern technologies and web based tools.
IDENTIFIED STRENGTHS / 2
Youth Act aims at guaranteeing that young people have to be listened
before and during the processes of decision making.
There is education from early age up to high schools to involve young
people in participation.
A lot of associations are active in neighbourhoods and they promote
projects for migrant youths.
IDENTIFIED GOOD PRACTISES / 1
The youth is informed by the municipality after every forum on what has
been discussed and about the results.
The department manages a system, where individuals, groups of people
or organizations can submit their initiatives or project proposals. These
initiatives can be carried out with the assistance of the municipality.
IDENTIFIED GOOD PRACTISES / 2
The making of the plan on youth participation in participatory manner, in
collaboration with all important actors, such as local city districts, Youth
Council and NGOs.
Participatory budgeting makes resources accessible to youngsters for
their projects.
The democratic process of electing young representatives to the Core
group of the participation system for the young people.
IDENTIFIED WEAKNESSES / 1
There is no Youth Council in the city.
There is a significant lack of information of the different ways to
participate and of access to political information among youngsters. The
lack of knowledge is especially high among migrant youth.
The participation structure for the youth is solely a consultative body
without decision making power, and therefore many young people and
even some politicians and decision makers don’t take it very seriously.
IDENTIFIED WEAKNESSES / 2
The city has no systematic mechanism for how the young people’s voices
are heard and neither there is the mechanism for processing the
initiatives.
Strategy and projects are not focused on young migrants, only generally
in youth, and don’t analyse, whether they reach young migrants. Policies
are not differentiated for migrants and for youth that have a worse
economic condition.
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. More consultation, co-decision and binding mechanisms
2. More promotion and support for the participation of young people
3. More information and civic education for the youth
4. Specific support for youth with migrant background
5. More support for the activities of young people and youth organisations
6. Training for politicians on working with youth
7. Better strategy, policy and administrative cooperation
Panel Discussion: Strategic entry points for promoting civic and political empowerment of migrant youth
Closing remarks
