YouthBank Program in Armenia

Over one third of Armenia’s young people live in rural communities. In a recent survey conducted by the Ministry of Culture, rural youth identified their main problems as a lack of employment and educational opportunities, and an absence of social and cultural activities in the villages.

These social and economic hardships have resulted in a low level of youth participation in local development. In order to provide youth from rural communities with opportunities to develop practical skills and to lead local development processes, Eurasia Partnership Foundation is implementing the YouthBank Program in partnership with the Community Foundation of Northern Ireland.

This program uses an innovative approach to developing youth leaders by building their decision-making and critical thinking skills.

Nine Youth Bank committees in Armenia

Work in Youth Bank Committees means 70 young people are able to do:

• Community Needs Assessments, setting criteria and priorities
   
• PR activities – Radio, local newspapers, posters, events
   
• Proposal review: screening, interviews, scoring, decision making
   
• Saying YES and NO to proposals
   
• Contract signing, checks distribution
   
• Programmatic and Financial monitoring
   
• Writing reports, articles, projects
   
• Celebration/ Conference
   
• Local workshops …………

VOLUNTEERING for communities…

Youth Bank in Pictures