Elida Nuri, the Advocacy & Communications Analyst UNFPA Albania highlights the advantages the youth cooperation brings in the Western Balkans. We are conducting this interview because the UN is working closely with RYCO on a joint project. Why do you support RYCO and its mission? We have found a strong partner in RYCO, because it
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WESTERN BALKANS – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) in cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and with the support of the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF) launches the campaign “YOUth Inspired by Peace” aimed at raising awareness and increasing peacebuilding and reconciliation efforts among youth in the Western Balkans through various campaign
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WESTERN BALKANS – Within the framework of the “Supporting the Western Balkan’s Collective Leadership on Reconciliation” project, the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO), the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UN PBF), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in cooperation with the Mozaik Foundation, Beyond42 and Mašta, are organizing the
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NORTH MACEDONIA – In the framework of the “Supporting the Western Balkan’s Collective Leadership on Reconciliation” project, supported by the UN Peacebuilding Fund, the Regional Youth Cooperation Office and the United Nations Population Fund – UNFPA workshops were conducted by the youth trainers of a group of young people in order to strengthen the role
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MONTENEGRO – If you are a high school student, aged 14-19, coming from Montenegro, we invite you to apply for the online workshop “Reach the Future” to be held on 27 – 28 February 2021. The workshop was designed with the aim to connect high school students from different backgrounds in order to overcome existing
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WESTERN BALKANS – After they successfully completed the Training of Trainers, and to utilize their newly gained skills and knowledge, expand the ypeer network among their groups and promote best innovative ideas of peacebuilding, the Western Balkan youth are organizing local workshops in Albania. The workshops are organized with the support of RYCO and UNFPA
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WESTERN BALKANS – RYCO and UNFPA, supported by the UN Peacebuilding Fund, are implementing the second part of the Western Balkans Y-Peer Training of Trainers that gathers 21 young people from the region who will become ypeer trainers. Due to travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the training is taking place from 30 September
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WESTERN BALKANS – Organized within a joint RYCO-UN project supported by the UN Peacebuilding Fund, RYCO and UNFPA are implementing the Western Balkans Y-Peer Training of Trainers, gathering 21 young people from hard to reach groups who will become ypeer trainers. Through a series of online and planned offline trainings, the participants will develop new
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WESTERN BALKANS – RYCO and UNFPA are calling for 18 enthusiastic young people, ages 18 to 27 from the Western Balkans 6, who will become peer trainers. The participants will take part in the main training based on y-peer methodology adapted to peacebuilding and reconciliation, and continue to work at local level in their communities
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TIRANA – Supported by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, together with its partners UNDP, UNFPA and UNICEF from Albania, RYCO is holding an annual planning workshop of the “Supporting the Western Balkan’s Collective Leadership on Reconciliation: Building Capacities and Momentum for the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO)” project. The workshop is taking place in Tirana
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