Work Plan 2025
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Building resilience of green youth organisations in Eastern Europe
What is our 2025 Work Plan about?
The Work Plan of 2025 consists of an international Resilience Building Summer Camp as the first phase, which will be held in July in Chisinau, followed by Refocus Local Actions that will be realised all across Eastern Europe.
Both activities aim to to support green youth organisations in Eastern Europe to build resilience for operating within environments characterised by democratic backsliding and deterioration of democratic values, and maintain capacity to advocate for improvement of democratic processes to counter these trends.
Resilience Building Summer Camp
Refocus Summer Camp will take place in Chișinău, 7-12 July 2025, hosted by Gutta-Club!
The Summer Camp intends to equip participants with knowledge and skills related to resilience building for operating in environments characterised by democratic backsliding, and empower them to disseminate that knowledge and skills among their peers.
The objectives we will aim to reach are:
Enhance the understanding of democratic backsliding among participants by exploring topics such as rights restrictions, lack of media freedom, mental health deterioration, and shrinking space for civil society.
Provide a safe space for participants to analyse and understand root causes of democratic backsliding, it’s trends and effects on societies, and possible ways of resisting and countering these trends.
Equip participants with essential skills for resilience-building in autocratic environments, including adaptability, resourcefulness, strategic thinking, community building, and prioritizing mental health and well-being.
Empower participants to apply knowledge and skills gained to their organisational workings, disseminate them among their peers, and implement them in their national and regional contexts.
Resilience Building Local Actions
Resilience Building Local Actions will aim to enable green youth activists to disseminate further the knowledge, skills, and resources related to resilience and by doing so strengthen the capacities of green youth organisations for upholding democracy and democratic values within different contexts in Eastern Europe.
Through Local Actions we will support 7 green youth Eastern European organisations to contribute to achieving this aim.
The call for Local Actions will be published in July 2025!
Our Work Plan is supported by:
Support progressive change in Eastern Europe
Your donation will enable us to expand our reach and impact, inviting more activists to our Summer Camp and funding more Local Actions.