PROJECT TITLE: Stronger Voices for Better Choices - Youth Hub for Western Balkans and Türkiye (WB&T)

Financing Instrument: EuropeAid/179703/DH/ACT/Multi

Status: Ongoing

Implementation period: 15.11.2024 – 14.11.2027

Funded by: European Union

Financing amount:1,087,155 Euro

Type of financing: Technical Assistance

Beneficiaries:    Ana and Vlade Divac Foundation (Serbia); Beyond Barriers Association (Albania); Prima Association (Montenegro); Youth Alliance Krusevo (North Macedonia); Community Volunteers Foundation (Turkey); Democracy for Development Institute (Kosovo); Institute for Youth Development KULT (Bosnia

and Herzegovina); INSTAT- Associate Partner.
Implementing Agency: Ana and Vlade Divac Foundation

Statistical areas benefiting from the project: Social Statistics, Demography
Project objectives: Overall project objective is to increase civic participation, reconciliation and regional exchange in the Western Balkans and Türkiye (WB&T) while contributing to the EU approximation process.

Specific Objectives: To provide evidence-based advocacy for improved policymaking and reform process implementation; To increase capacities and regional collaboration of CSOs to influence decision-making and societal debate, particularly on young women and men, via Youth Hub for WB&T Network (YHWBTN); To increase engagement, visibility and influence of CSOs in raising public awareness, mobilizing citizens and promoting broadest civic participation

Project results: Publishing the Youth Participation Index (YPI), providing financial and capacity-building support to CSOs, organizing advocacy events, and conducting wide-reaching awareness campaigns to engage young people and decision-makers alike.