Empowering Youth to Build a Just, Sustainable, and Inclusive Europe - 2025

ended

YMCA Europe is the umbrella organisation for 37 national YMCA movements embracing over 3,200 local YMCAs which develop youth work in local communities and serve more than 2 million young people across Europe. This SGA will directly impact over 61,000 young people and youth workers and 275 other youth organisations, with an additional 183,000 reached indirectly through its activities. Through communication efforts, over 355,000 people will directly engage with our content, reaching a total audience of more than 1.55 million. The objectives of the SGA will be achieved through capacity-building tools, knowledge-sharing networks, international projects, and youth advocacy: (1) To ensure democratic governance and efficient management of YMCA Europe as an essential condition to the strategic growth of youth civic space and implementation of youth empowerment projects, programmes, and events. (2) To safeguard the viability and sustainability of the YMCA Europe membership (European Youth NGOs) through capacity-building activities that develop and improve the governance, internal policies, operations, and reach to young people as well as promote EU priorities and access to EU funding instruments among them. (3) To ensure the implementation of key thematic impact areas of YMCA Europe through the design, delivery, monitoring, and evaluation of projects, programmes and events contributing to the personal development, well-being, social and digital inclusion, and active participation of youth. (4) To cultivate advocacy spaces and networks of young people that enable them to raise their voices, champion solutions to issues most affecting them, and be active contributors to EU policy debate, consultation, and creation. (5) To amplify dissemination and visibility, within and outside the network, of information and intellectual outputs of projects, programmes, and events to facilitate more efficient communication and cooperation with stakeholders and active youth participation.