{"id":6155,"date":"2019-07-29T19:52:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T15:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/?p=6155"},"modified":"2019-09-20T13:07:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T09:07:49","slug":"assessment-of-youth-involvement-in-public-life-and-local-government-survey-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/6155.html","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAssessment of Youth Involvement in Public Life and Local Government\u201d Survey Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

A number of youth surveys conducted in Armenia at different times indicate that youth involvement in policy-making and decision-making processes is insufficient and young people have limited opportunities to fully utilize their potential.\u00a0According to the\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0\u201cAspirations and Expectations of Armenian Youth\u201d conducted by the Youth Studies Institute, there are very low rates of youth participation in different spheres of public life.\u00a0The overwhelming majority of young people currently do not want to be involved in the work of local government, NGOs, civic initiative groups, and the most common justifications for unwillingness to get involved in these structures are “not interesting”, “my involvement will change nothing” the premise, “time.”\u00a0The low rates of youth participation in public and community life are explained by their focus on solving their own problems, as well as their skepticism about the results of participation.\u00a0These problems are compounded, in particular, by the restriction of employment and socio-cultural areas for young people in regional areas.<\/p>\n

The above mentioned problems are also typical for the youth of the Chambarak community of Gegharkunik Marz of the Republic of Armenia.\u00a0The community was enlarged in 2017 to include Chambarak urban, Aygut, Antaramej, Getik, Dprabak, Ttujur, Kalavan, Dzoravank, Martuni, Vahan rural communities and Artsvashen.\u00a0There are currently about 1,600 young people aged 18 to 35 living in the community, about 60% of whom are concentrated in Chambarak.In January-March, a research project \u201cAssessment of Youth Involvement in Public Life and Local Government\u201d was conducted in Chambarak Enlarged Community to study youth involvement in public life and local self-government of the community.\u00a0The research was carried out by the Agape World Youth NGO within the framework of the \u201cYouth for Their Future\u201d grant project.\u00a0The purpose of the grant program is to promote youth participation and increase public influence in the Tchambarak enlarged community by assessing youth engagement and monitoring of public finances.\u00a0The final result of the grant program will be the development of youth policy in the community and its advocacy.\u00a0The grant program is implemented by the Agape World Youth NGO within the framework of a sub-grant under the EU funded \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d project implemented by consortium led by the Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n

The main purpose of this research project is to find out how young people are involved in policy development, implementation and evaluation.\u00a0The information needed to identify research issues was obtained through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods.\u00a0The survey used a quantitative face-to-face survey with youth, involving a total of 309 youth.\u00a0In-depth interviews with key informants and focus group discussions with community youth were also conducted.\u00a0In addition to analyzing the documents, community development plans, annual financial reports and plans, and youth events reports were analyzed.<\/p>\n

The research involved a community-based monitoring group of young people living in the community, which in turn helped to increase the capacity of young people involved.\u00a0It is envisaged that the results of the research will be used to develop a community youth policy draft, which will then be submitted to local authorities for introduction and implementation.<\/p>\n

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A number of youth surveys conducted in Armenia at different times indicate that youth involvement in policy-making and decision-making processes is insufficient and young people have limited opportunities to fully utilize their potential.\u00a0According to the\u00a0report\u00a0\u201cAspirations and Expectations of Armenian Youth\u201d conducted by the Youth Studies Institute, there are very low rates of youth participation in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","category-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6157,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions\/6157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}