The Local Democracy Agency (LDA) of Kosovo is organizing Network Training Workshop and Regional Youth Forum, in Prishtina, in the period 4th-7th November 2019. This training and youth forum are part of the project “Regional Youth Compact for Europe”. The main topic of the Forum Youth Regional Compact for Europe is: Youth in the region: Seeking strategic responses to meeting the challenges of demography and labor market trends 2019. The goal of the training is to deepen the common understanding of the accession negotiation process with particular focus on the Chapter 19: Social Policy and Employment.
The topics of the training are: Labor Market Reforms; Decent work standards and Social Cohesion; Employment opportunities and regional mobility. This Network Training Workshop and Regional Youth Forum is expected to be attended by 70 participants, including members of the Project Management Team, Members of the Regional Youth Working Group, CSOs and youth organizations from the WB countries (prominent in the areas of youth policy design, youth inclusion and participation in the stakeholders’ structured dialogue frameworks), local regional policy/decision makers, local authorities, experts, NGO practitioners and media.
Trainers in this training will be experts from the World Bank, International Labour Organization (ILO), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and other organization, working throughout the region.
The project “Regional Youth Compact for Europe” is implemented by the Center for Democracy Foundation, European ALDA network and the ALDA – Western Balkans Network for Local Democracy, CRTA, Youth Act and Sodem. This project is funded by the European Union and the Balkan Trust for Democracy, a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.