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Following the contest for supporting local youth initiatives and projects, 13 youth Centres were selected as beneficiaries of the program implemented jointly by the Ministry of Education and Research, the Swiss Cooperation Office, and UNFPA Moldova, worth more than MDL 611 thousand.

At the end of the last year, the technical assistance program for improving the quality of programs/youth services within the Moldova Youth Centres Network started.

”The program aims to keep investing in creating and developing youth-friendly spaces. The equipment provided to Youth Centres via the Joint Fund is meant to improve the spaces that are intended for their development. The Ministry of Education and Research alongside the partners of the Joint Fund is facilitating the organization of activities for young people, both within and outside the Youth Centres. Thus, we’re promoting new opportunities for young people in communities’, stated Marcel Marin, Head of the Youth Division of the Ministry of Education and Research.

”To benefit of program support, Youth Centres are encouraged to provide brief and sound arguments by filling in a comprehensive form in which they have to indicate their most relevant activities for young people and the Youth Centre’s experience in their management. The most important is to show how the Centre plans to use the goods provided under the program and to ensure that purchased resources will be used in the long term”, stated Olga-Gordilă, project officer, UNFPA Moldova.

Endowing Youth Centres is meant to add value to youth services/programs by the new equipment and products, to ensure direct access of young people, to extend the practice of mobile work with young people, and also, to support enhanced cooperation with local partners that will help conduct activities for young people.

Under the program, the Hâncești Youth Centre benefited from a soccer table, a mobile blackboard, a mobile box, wooden easels, a folding table and several folding chairs, an outside tent, a microphone, different board games and a high-performance laptop’, said Ion Croitoru, the Hâncești Youth Centre Manager.

 

The program objective is to support the development of Youth Centres by investing in their infrastructure, helping them provide quality programs and services to young people, as well as facilitating youth engagement in promoting their rights, offering opportunities for volunteering, personal development, information, and networking, creating attractive possibilities for safe and inclusive entertainment and leisure time, avoiding behavioral risks. 

‘We are grateful to all stakeholders who engaged in starting and implementing this program, thanks to which we are now beneficiaries of equipment that is so necessary to our Centre’, added Daria Orlova, volunteer at the Hâncești Youth Centre.

 

 

In 2021, about 30 thousand young people benefited from the services and programs of the 44 Youth Centres from the Republic of Moldova. Youth Centres are public spaces that belong to local public authorities and are aimed to become points of attraction for young people at the local level where they can develop personally and acquire professional experience. Youth Centres provide young people with opportunities for volunteering, vocational guidance, leisure activities, etc., and are jointly developed by the Ministry of Education and Research, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, and the United Nations Population Fund.

 

For details please contact: Irina Drăguţanu, Communication Coordinator, UNFPA Moldova, tel.069694246, dragutanu@unfpa.org