How young people aged between 14 - 19 years perceive the youth provision in the city of Kumanovo. by Daniel Carter

How young people aged between 14 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 19 years perceive the youth provision and opportunity in the city of Kumanovo, Republic of Macedonia. Daniel John Carter ST09003304 May 2014

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Youth and Community Education Department of Education Cardiff Metropolitan University

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Abstract In the last three years Daniel Carter has been residing and working in the city of Kumanovo, Macedonia Developed a passion and appreciation for the city. Many hours have been spent researching the culture of the people. Specifically, the area of youth provision has been of personal and vocational interest in view of earlier experience as a Youth Worker in Wales. This dissertation sets out to conduct and analyse research to achieve an understanding of youth perception of youth provision in Kumanovo; to define the needs of the young people. The research methodology has been designed primarily to allow collation and evaluation of data derived from youth dialogue, based on analysis of schoolbased workshop surveys, interviews and questionnaires. The underpinning literature review considers the views and evidence from recognised writers and researchers in the field. The research has been successful in defining the direct perceptions, needs of the young people for youth provision and opportunities in Kumanovo. Besides identifying different cultural influences based on school, religion, family background and nationality, it also highlights where policy, strategy and application of future youth provision in Kumanovo can be improved.

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Attestation I understand the nature of plagiarism, and I am aware of the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s policy on this. I certify that this dissertation reports original work by me during my University project.

Signature

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Acknowledgements Huge thank you must be given too many people and organisations within Kumanovo for the help, advice and support they gave to create this dissertation. These include:

Organisations: -

The Center for Intercultural Dialogue In particular: Stefan Manevski Milos Ristovski Aleksandra Tsvetovska Dragana Jovanovska Aleksandra Tasic Magdalena Manevska Marta Kuzmanovska

The Youth Council For Kumanovo In Particular: Matej Manevska

The National Youth Council for Macedonia In Particular: Ivana Davidovska

Streets Festival Kumanovo: In Particular: Aleksandra Davidovska

JEF Macedonia In Particular: Ivana Jordanovska

Roma Youth Centre

KIRK (Skopje)

Kreactiv (Skopje & Kavardartsi)

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Translators -

Milena Stankovska

Gjurgica Ilieva

Viktorija Manevska

Florim Rexhepi

Schools: -

Bajram Shabani Elementary School In Particular: Fadil Alimi

Economics High School: In Particular: Bojana Ivanovska

Agricultural High School: In Particular: Sam Cireno

Technical High School.

Goce Delcev Gymnasia High School.

Technical Support -

Dina Weiler

Vivienne Griffiths

Other -

Milan

Bobi

Bar Cube

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Table of Contents Abstract ........................................................................................................... 1 Attestation ....................................................................................................... 2 Acknowledgements ......................................................................................... 3 1

Introduction ............................................................................................... 7 1.1 Background and Context .................................................................. 7 1.2 Scope and Objectives ....................................................................... 8 1.3 Achievements ................................................................................... 8 1.4 Overview of Dissertation ................................................................... 9

Literature Review .................................................................................... 10 2.1 Macedonian Government ............................................................... 10 2.2 National Youth Council of Macedonia ............................................. 12 2.3 Association of Youth Workers Macedonia....................................... 13 2.4 Kumanovo Municipality ................................................................... 14 2.5 Center for Intercultural Dialogue ..................................................... 16 2.6 Kumanovo Youth Council................................................................ 21 2.7 Kumani ........................................................................................... 21 2.8 Other .............................................................................................. 22

Methodology ........................................................................................... 23 3.1 Quantitative & Qualitative ............................................................... 24 3.1.1

Quantitative .......................................................................... 24

3.1.2

Qualitative ............................................................................ 25

3.2 Applied/Basic Research ................................................................. 25 3.3 Deductive/Inductive Research ........................................................ 26 4

Presentation of Data & Analysis .............................................................. 27 4.1 Interviews ....................................................................................... 27 4.1.1

Stefan Manevski .................................................................. 27

4.1.2

Aleksandra Cvetkovska........................................................ 28

4.1.3

Magdalena Manevska .......................................................... 29

4.2 Results from Workshops in School ................................................. 30 4.2.1

Representing Kumanovo ...................................................... 31

4.2.2

Youth Feeling ....................................................................... 33

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4.2.3

Activities ............................................................................... 35

4.2.4

Rating of Young Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opportunities in Kumanovo .......... 37

4.3 Questionnaire Results .................................................................... 38

4.3.1

Background Information ....................................................... 39

4.3.2

Participation Information ...................................................... 43

4.3.3

Comparative SPSS Crosstabs ............................................. 47

Summary & Conclusions ......................................................................... 50 5.1 Summary ........................................................................................ 50 5.2 Evaluation ....................................................................................... 51 5.3 Future Work .................................................................................... 51

References .................................................................................................... 54 Appendix A National Youth Council Macedonia (NYCM) Portfolio 2013 ........ 59 Appendix B CID Annual Report Initiative for Acknowledgement and Professionalization of Youth Work (AYWM) ................................................... 60 Appendix C CID Annual Report 2013 ........................................................... 61 Appendix D List of other youth organisations in Kumanovo .......................... 62 Appendix E Participation Questionnaire ........................................................ 68 Appendix F Interview Transcriptions .............................................................. 73 Appendix G Workshop Results...................................................................... 98 Appendix H Results of the Questionnaires .................................................... 99 Appendix I Additional Project Information .................................................... 100

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1 Introduction Kumanovo is a small city located in the north eastern part of the Republic of Macedonia. According to the 2002 census the population of Kumanovo was 105,484, this consisted of 63,746 Macedonians, 27,290 Albanians, 292 Turks, 4,256 Roma, 147 Vlach, 9,062 Serbs, 20 Bosiaks and 671 Other (Republic of Macedonia State Statistical Office, 2005). This document also states that the population aged 10 –

Fig.1. Map of the Republic of Macedonia (Index Web

14 counted 8,523, those aged

Solutions Ltd., 2013).

15 – 19 counted 8,605 and those aged 20 – 24 counted 8,757 (Republic of Macedonia State Statistical Office, 2005). Background and Context This piece of research has engaged the young people of Kumanovo to document their view and perception of the provision for young people within the city. There are many youth organisations within Kumanovo such as the Center for Intercultural Dialogue (CID, 2014), DROM (Tocak, 2009) and Kumani (Kumani Zapad, 2012). They engage in many activities with young people following their specific agendas or policies. The leading party in the municipality, SDSM (SDSM, 2014) has an agenda for youth within its manifesto and the Kumanovo Youth Council (CID, 2013) is also currently developing a youth strategy and pushing for implementation within the municipality. Enquiries to these organisations suggest that their agenda for youth did not involve any consultative process with young people. The Kumanovo Youth Council only works with an older age bracket of young people (18 – 25 years) and is made of youth involved in organisations; it is not a single organisation itself. Research needed to be conducted to try and under7|Page

stand what the needs of the young people within the city were, especially within the 13 years plus age group. This dissertation set out to achieve such research, mainly within the aged group 14 – 19 years. Scope and Objectives The scope of the project was to access a large sample of young people 14 – 19 years from various economic, ethnic, religious and educational back grounds within the city to gain an insight into their perceptions and needs. The objectives were: -

Obtain various young people’s perceptions of youth provision and opportunities within the city.

Obtain various young people’s needs in youth provision within the city.

Use results to create conclusions on the future path youth provision should take within the city. Achievements

Six different schools within the city have been accessed, including two Albanian speaking schools and four Macedonian speaking schools. One of these was a primary (8 – 15 years) school and the remaining five were high schools (15 – 19 years). Two of the high schools were Economic schools and the others were Gymnasia (Academic), Technical and Agricultural schools. Primary schools have no specification in subjects. In each of these schools small workshops were performed during their English classes to engage in dialogue with the young people and gain an understanding about how they felt about the city, being young people and youth opportunities. Surveys were also conducted in each school as well as online, almost two hundred surveys have been collected. This provided a significant sample for analysis and is the first of its kind within Kumanovo. This dissertation has untaken an act never yet performed to achieve a goal never truly sought. It is the first type of research to collect such information through direct dialogue with the younger bracket of young people.

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Overview of Dissertation The dissertation first investigates previous research within the field of youth work in Kumanovo, what it achieved and what is said about young people and their perceptions and needs. Through this literature review, the dissertation also looks over the agendas of the political parties, the strategy developed by the youth council and the agendas of the youth organisations within the city. The literature review also takes a broader look at Macedonia as a whole, investigating the newly formed National Youth Council (NMS, 2013), the governments agenda for youth and major youth organisations and youth councils in Kumanovo. The dissertation then moves on to collation and analysis of the primary research data obtained from interviews to analysis of the results and findings from school workshops and completed surveys. The Conclusion summarises the results, analysis and evaluation and

formu-

lates recommendations on effective practice for the future. The dissertation is available for the municipality, youth council, schools and youth organisations to read and use for future design and development of youth provision in Kumanovo. All sources within the dissertation are referenced and full details are contained within the bibliography at the end. All appendices referred to can be found at the end of the document.

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2 Literature Review The main objective of this literature review is to answer three main questions: -

What policies / manifestos / actions are there in place for / about young people?

What provisions are in place for young people in Kumanovo?

What previous research has been conducted with young people in Kumanovo? Macedonian Government

The Macedonian government has a number of policies, strategies and actions in place regarding young people, these include: -

Action Plan for Youth Employment 2015 (Youth Employment Advisory Group, 2012)

Republic of Macedonia National Youth Strategy (Government of the Republic of Macedonia, 2005)

Action Plan for the Implementation of the National Youth Strategy of the Republic of Macedonia (Agency for Youth and Sport, 2009)

The United Nations: former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (2010, p.15) states the unemployment rate in the country as ‘32.2%’ for 2009. The [American] Central Intelligence Agency (2014) rates Macedonia 113 out of 229 countries for wealth-based on gross domestic product (GDP). These both suggest that employment, productivity and finance are significant issues for the Republic of Macedonia. The situation is obviously of significant importance to the government as the Youth Employment Advisory Group (2012, p.5) states that ‘high percentages of unemployed youth mean that investments in education and training are wasted, that there is a reduced taxation base and higher welfare costs’. The descriptive jargon seems to focus more on areas for action like ‘foreign exchange liberalization, the restructuring of the banking system, the privatization of state and socially-owned enterprises, and improvements in the business regula-

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tory framework’ (Youth Employment Advisory Group, 2012), rather than on areas of broad personal development for the young people. It is interesting that the National Youth Strategy for the Republic of Macedonia (Government of the Republic of Macedonia, 2005) was put on hold until 2009. Kirkovski (2011) states that expectations were ‘that the Law for youth will be adopted by the end of the 2012’ as part of the adoption of EU regulations. The law for youth will cover the general interests and programs in the youth field, establishing and registration of youth organisations, their activity and scope of work, property and obligations, right and obligations, expert work, international youth work, information and bodies for development of youth policy. (Kirkovski, 2011)

However at the end of 2011 the government ‘withdrew its “Communist-style” controversial draft Law on Youth after strong opposition from 45 local youth groups’ (Marusic, 2011). Therefore the main document in place regarding youth policy and strategy is still the ‘Action Plan for the Implementation of the National Youth Strategy of the Republic of Macedonia’ (Agency for Youth and Sport, 2009). This action plan has five major priorities; education, youth self-employment, quality of life, health and prevention and of particular interest ‘local youth work’. This priority has three objectives (Agency for Youth and Sport, 2009): 1. The associate life of young people is improved. 2. Increased active participation of youth by developing local youth strategies. 3. Improved financial and material conditions of the national and local youth associations. The document is ambiguous and there is no mention of research or dialogue with young people for themselves to determine what they require, and it contains little guidance on what they want the local youth associations to do or how to determine local need. Indeed it is hard to find any evidence of local plans for implementation on the level the action plan suggests.

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National Youth Council of Macedonia The National Youth Council for Macedonia is one of the first national youth councils to be established for many years. ‘The National Youth Council of Macedonia [NYCM] is a youth umbrella organisation - association of associations and foundations in the Republic of Macedonia’ (NYCM, 2013). The NYCM goes on to state that it ‘gathers 55 organisations: 22 youth organisations, 17 organisations for youth, 2 national youth union organisations, 9 youth wings of political parties and 5 associate member organisations united to promote and advocate for youth rights in Macedonia’ (NYCM, 2013). The portfolio of the NYCM states seven distinct goals of the council, these goals can be found within the portfolio which is contained in Appendix A.

The NYCM appears to be the only association working towards the development of youth representation and policy development, an important development in a nation where the position of youth is unclear. Its growth and impact on the government over the last few years is impressive. However, its role as an association of associations does not cater for all young people, many of whom are not involved with youth organisations, or other linked associations. The type of work and the methodologies NYCM is engaged in caters only for the older age bracket of youth (16/18 – 29 years) and does not produce any evidence of the perceptions and needs of the younger age group or include them in its development of policies and strategies that will affect them. Using Rodger Hart’s ladder of participation (1992), it can be said that the youth council is between levels five (consulted and informed) and six (adult-initiated, shared decision with children) as well as level four (assigned but informed) for certain age/social groups. The president of the organisation is 25 years old at the time of this writing with other members of the board being older. Adult representation for youth thus permeates the council and this is replicated across the wider umbrella organisation as can be seen in the list of member organisations (NYCM, 2013, p. 2). Additionally, political and other groups are also represented in the councils. Therefore, it is debatable how well the youth is truly represented. Using the age definition of youth by the European Commission (15 – 29 years) and Macedonian (15 – 25 years) definition the council is near the top of Hart’s (1992) ladder. However, when considering representation and youth provision for the 12 | P a g e

lower age bracket of 14 to 19 years the NYCM focus is negligible. The NYCM is still young and can, over time, address these issues, provide more support to local youth councils, and develop a system that truly represents all young people. However, its current modus operandi needs to be addressed if it is to succeed in this. Association of Youth Workers Macedonia The Association of Youth Workers Macedonia (AYWM) does not work with young people directly, but works towards recognition of youth work in Macedonia. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The idea for the project and the cooperation is based on the fact that the youth worker has not been formally recognized as a professionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (CID & NED, 2013). Their creation and father development will shape and define the future of youth work in the country as they aim to define youth works legal process, network, develop professional standards and regulate a legal system. (CID & NED, 2013). The exact aims and objectives of the AYWM can be found in Appendix B.

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Kumanovo Municipality Fig.8. Cultural Centre & Basketball Courts

Kumanovo municipality has provided some sports facilities for the city that are used by young people such as basketball courts, tennis courts, football fields and a quay that can be used for running. It is also supports the cultural centre which the local youth theatre group and photography club regularly use for shows and exhibitions. The municipality currently under the political party SDSM and they have stated clear intentions towards young people in their manifesto. The manifesto also suggests a keen interest in the development of young people’s information technology competencies. They ‘systematically encourage young people to use the information – communications technology’ (СДСМ, 2013, p. 79). Such statements can support a view that the political view of young people is for the benefit of the state and not the young people themselves. This is then supported by statements like ‘generations of young people represent the backbone of the development of the Macedonian economy, the relationship with the world of new knowledge’ (СДСМ, 2013, pp. 80-81). One of the final statements about youth in the Manifesto is about creating future leaders by creating ‘a program focused for making direct contact between youngsters from Macedonia and youngster from diaspora’ (СДСМ, 2013, p. 193). This suggests that SDSM’s work with youth is not at the top, but more near the bottom level of manipulation on the ladder of participation (Hart, 1992). Nevertheless, it must be mentioned that SDSM within the Kumanovo Municipality has a Youth Strategy for 2014 – 2019 (Општина Куманово, 2014). The strategy 14 | P a g e

states that ‘Young will become full partners in the development community that can participate in the creation of programs and the areas of interest: culture, sports, youth information, opening youth centres and clubs, and programs for international cooperation, youth exchanges , international training which will enable greater mobility and expanding experiences’ (Општина Куманово, 2014, p. 7). As encouraging as this is, as with previous youth strategies, only time will tell if this is implemented or an action for its implementation needs to be developed.

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Center for Intercultural Dialogue The largest youth organisation in Kumanovo is CID; the organisation is 8 years old and is the umbrella organisation for two official and a third unofficial youth organisations (Streets Festival, Center for Rural Development and Multi Kulti). The organisation has one main office, two youth centres (which have been given to them by the municipality) and an international volunteer house. In its statute, CID (2006) states that ‘the citizens association Center for Intercultural Dialogue from Kumanovo is an association of citizens created upon the liberal gathering of citizens, for accomplishment, protection and development of their interests and beliefs, which are performing actions and acFig.2. CID Mobility Report 2013 (CID, 2014).

tivities aiming to improve the non-formal education, youth

participation and youth exchanges.’ Notice that within this statement the only time youth are mentioned is within participation and youth exchanges straight after emphasis on non-formal education. This suggests a focus on a very educativebased form of youth work. By 2012, CID is most definitely an organisation heavily focused on the ideas of youth participation, active citizenship, youth strategy and youth policy development as can be seen in the development plan for 2013, their Annual Report 2012 (CID, 2012). This can be seen in the stated plans under ‘Promoting and supporting sustainable community development through active youth and citizen’s participation’ (CID, 2012, p.3). However, CID has always been involved in an international (specifically European) exchange movement and has sent and received a variety of young people and volunteers over the years. In 16 | P a g e

2013, CID published this ‘Mobility Report 2013’ infographic showing the number of learners involved in educational activities with CID at local and international levels, and also the number of residents of the Republic of Macedonia or abroad. This supports CID’s statement in their 2012 Annual Report that one of their Objectives was ‘Ensuring and supporting intercultural learning processes in and with international activities’ (CID, 2012, p.3). Taking a look at CID’s annual reports from 2010, 2011 and 2012 a comparison between implemented activities can be made:

Implemented Activities

2010

2011

2012

Multi Kulti Youth Center

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Active Citizenship

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International Trainings

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Non-Formal Education Training

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Youth Exchanges & Summer Camps

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European Voluntary Service (EVS)

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Networking

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Street Festival

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Animal Care

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Extra-Curricular Activities in Schools

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Inter-Municipality Cooperation

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Local Volunteering / Youth Work De-

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velopment Flash Mobs

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Street Based Youth Work

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Youth Information / Media

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Online Campaigns

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Youth Councils

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(CID, 2010), (CID, 2011), (CID, 2012). In these three years, CID worked on workshops within the Multi Kulti Youth Center, on active citizenship projects, international trainings, European voluntary 17 | P a g e

service (EVS) and networking. This shows that CID has kept its general focus of youth work in these areas. At the end of 2010 CID states in its annual report on of its implemented activities as ‘Enhancing Inter-Ethnic Community Dialogue and Collaboration- Youth Centre Multi-Култи’ (CID, 2010). Under this title, CID (2010) states ‘Centre for Intercultural Dialogue is a implementing partner for the period 2010-2012 in cooperation with UNICEF within Joint UN program for "Enhancing Inter-Ethnic Community Dialogue and Collaboration" financed by MGD Fund’. Following this in their next annual report CID states that ‘starting as project in 2010, the youth centre Multi Култи has become a noteworthy place, a neutral platform where young people from different ethnic backgrounds follow joint activities’ (CID, 2011). CID has taken other, different directions in the past few years. This can been seen in CID’s 2012 annual report which states ‘the president of CID Matej Manevski is the current chair of the Local Youth Council Kumanovo’ (CID, 2012). This supports their claim to ‘promoting and supporting sustainable community development through active youth and citizens participation’, ‘Youth work development’ and ‘promoting the networking of the organisation within the existing international networks and initiate like-minded networks within the country’ (CID, 2012). CID’s closest to direct dialogue with young people at a completely free and confidential level is the street-based youth work conducted between June and August 2012. ‘During the sessions the teams engaged in dialogue with 170 young people within the main squares of Kumanovo’ (Carter, 2012).

Fig.3. A breakdown of young people spoken to in street based youth work sessions in ethnicity and gender (Carter, 2012)

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Another area that is based along dialogue to ascertain the perceptions and needs of young people was the Open Youth Centre project. As stated by Carter (2014), the aim of this Open Youth Centre was: ‘for the youth centre to be open on a regular basis a few times a week for young people to come in, hang out and choose activities that they wanted to participate in, if they wanted to participate. The sessions had no political, funding, or other agenda. It was solely a provision for young people who wanted to attend to develop for themselves if they so wished.’

More information on this project is provided in Appendix I. Taking a look at CID’s 2013 Annual Report, a conclusion can be reached in determining the direction of youth work the organisation is currently taking. Under its ‘target group’ section CID states that: ‘CID works with young people and citizens from diverse religious, ethnic, national and other beliefs who are at the same time creators and beneficiaries of our activities’ (CID, 2013).

It should be noted that the focus is still on people from different backgrounds, based on beliefs and national or ethnic standing. There is no reference to different educational or financial backgrounds or different physical or mental abilities. The absence of a definition of ‘young people’ begs the question of how inclusive these activities are for all age ranges. CID goes on to state under its ‘focus area’ that it is ‘committed to contribute to the […] establishment of a local youth support system consisted of youth centres with professional staff and young volunteers, as well as financial and administrate support from the local government to maintain the level of quality of the work done’ (CID, 2013). This suggests an inclusive and open youth centre policy with the strategic intention and capacity to cater for all young people. Whether this materialises, will be subject to assessment and evaluation once (when and if) the programme is rolled out. The main areas for implemented activities in 2013 as stated by CID were: -

Youth Policy

Community Development

Youth Unemployment

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Regional Cooperation

Human Rights Education

Inclusion

(CID, 2013) Activities for these areas were implemented through different methods. For youth policy, the main methods were meetings and seminars with different youth organisations for the development of youth councils and recognition of youth work. Other areas such as community development and human rights education included ongoing workshops and national trainings. The new ‘learn with CID’ website (CID, 2014) is soley about training opportunities with CID for adults and mainly through the adult learning programmes frunded by the European Commission; Erasmus+ (European Commission, 2014). These training opportunities are focused on adult education, linguistics and formal education which suggests CID is taking steps towards a more academia-based direction away from the informality of youth work. From CID’s last annual report (Appendix C) and current projects featured on their website (CID, 2014) as well as their ‘learn with CID’ website (CID, 2014), a picture can be drawn on the general direction the organisation is going in. CID is definitely moving into an area based more around citizenship and professional development.The age of youth CID is working with is also changing. The ‘new’ workshops in Multi Kulti ‘aim to contribute to the development of awareness and skills among young people in critical thinking, economic, political and legal literacy helping to increase their competitiveness in the labour market’ (CID, 2014). It is safe to say that CID will continue to be active within youth councils considering two of its board members are president and chairman of the National Youth Council and Kumanovo youth council respectively. The organisation is becoming more of a professional development provider rather than the grassroots youth work provider. For the young people they do engage with the activities they offer have value and are ‘engaging in conversation and fostering learning’ (Jeffs & Smith, 1996, p.38). It would not be wrong however, to fear that because of the reliance of the

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organisation on foreign grants that they focus too much on the visualisation and the outcomes, rather than the conversation itself. ‘Conversation is an activity to be valued in itself – not just for where it may lead’ (Jeffs & Smith, 1996, p.39). Kumanovo Youth Council Kumanovo Youth Council is the local version of the National Youth Council of Macedonia. CID stated on their website that ‘the aim of the Youth Council of Kumanovo will be, beyond all, to be involved in the creation, monitor the implementation and evaluation of all local policies that affect young people’ (CID, 2013). The local council is also similar to the national one, it is not entirely made up of youth but of different organisations within Kumanovo. It ‘brings together representatives from youth NGOs, Kumanovo municipality and different institutions aims to enhance the advocacy capacity of the Local Youth Council’ (OCSE, 2014). One defining feature of the local youth council is that it does contain some young people and it aims to ‘discuss and raise awareness of the Local Youth Strategy, which was developed by the Youth Council and Kumanovo municipality’ (OCSE, 2014). This places it high up towards shared decision-making on the ladder of participation (Hart, 1992). It also explains why the Strategy for Youth (Општина Куманово, 2014) is very different in its statements than that of the municipalities ruling parties manifesto. Kumani Kumani is Kumanovo’s local ‘Ultra’s’ or ‘Firm’ for the basketball and football team. Containing a massive youth division the group have taken over the city with their murals dedicated to the team, Kumanovo and the ultras themselves. Other than legitimate graffiti Kumani also engage the ethnic Macedonian youth of the city in organisation of celebration events and transport to away games. Fig. 7. Kumani Mural

Another aspect of youth provision they

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Other A list of the other youth organisations can be found in Appendix D.

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3 Methodology In this chapter, the methodology and the results of the research will be described, firstly the methodology behind obtaining the research, followed by the results and an analysis. ‘A methodology shows how research questions are articulated with questions asked in the field. Its effect is a claim about significance’ (Clough & Nutbrown, 2002, p. 25). This research has been attempted through radical looking; where the curiosity has been ‘systematically informed by perspectives outside the researchers’ vision (Clough & Nutbrown, 2002, p. 26). Following this, radical listening was also adopted into the methodology; where ‘careful attention was given to all the voices which may be heard around a given topic’ (Clough & Nutbrown, 2002, p. 27). The research has aimed to be critical and therefore undertake the notion of radical reading; ‘This process is inseparable from radical looking and radical listening, but what distinguishes radical reading is the notion of criticality’ (Clough & Nutbrown, 2002, p. 28). This is followed by intent to reveal the gaps in knowledge about the young people of Kumanovo as well as why and how that information occurs. Through this radical questioning has be used to understand why certain questions and ‘answers might be morally and politically necessitated’ (Clough & Nutbrown, 2002, p. 28). The research was conducted in three sections: 1. Interviews with local people working with youth or involved in youth work. 2. Workshops held in classrooms of each stated school. The workshops were as follows: - The young people were give three pieces of sticky paper and asked to wright down on the first one ‘one word to describe Kumanovo’. On the second, a sentence about ‘how they feel as a young person in Kumanovo’ and on the third any activities they engage in outside of school time. - The final part of the workshop was where there was a target drawn on piece of paper with circles ranging from 1 to 5. The young people had to

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put an ‘X’ in the target for how good they thought opportunities for young people in Kumanovo were. 1 being the best and 5 being the worst. 3. Questionnaires were conducted and collect from young people from different schools, a youth organisation and online via social media. Once all the information was collected, it was documented and analysed using a mixture of Microsoft Excel and IBM’s SPSS program; Microsoft Excel for the results of the workshops and SPSS for analysing the 188 questionnaires. The interviews were typed up on Microsoft Word and can be found in Appendix F. This analysed information was then combined with the information obtained from the literature review to develop the conclusion to the question at hand and well as the suggestions for future youth work/provision development in Kumanovo. Quantitative & Qualitative The research adopted both quantitative and qualitative methods, this section covers how and why they were used. 3.1.1 Quantitative ‘The emphasis of Quantitative research is on collecting and analysing numerical data; it concentrates on measuring the scale, range, frequency etc. of phenomena’ (Neville, 2007, p. 3) A large amount of quantitative data was collected during the research period from the level given to youth opportunity in the city by each school, to the multiple choices answers of the questionnaire (Appendix E). Quantitative data was needed for basic, yet essential information about the young people such as their background information, perception and basic needs. The research was aimed at getting information from young people who speak a different language from the researcher the questionnaire was designed to obtain as much accurate information as possible while including all the young people. Quantitative data can be obtained through published statistics, observation and closed questions. ‘The benefits of a mainly closed questionnaire were that they made it fairly easy and quick for the young people to complete, they were simple to score and did not favour those school pupils who were more articulate’ (Clough & Nutbrown, 2002, p. 124). Therefore the questionnaire with other quantitative methods was able to collect accurate information on the young people’s 24 | P a g e

backgrounds, feelings, sources of information and participation. Taking this into consideration ‘closed questions do not enable participant’s to add explanations for their choices and there was a risk that the response’s given would not be sufficiently thorough enough’ or could reflect bias (Oppenheim, 1992). Therefore other methods of research have to be included. 3.1.2 Qualitative ‘Qualitative research is more subjective in nature than Quantitative research and involves examining and reflecting on the less tangible aspects of a research subject, e.g. values, attitudes, perceptions’ (Neville, 2007, p. 3). The interviews conducted contain a mainly qualitative form of research alongside the young people’s views and feelings from the workshops. The questionnaire itself also contained open questions for qualitative information about the young people. This has produced a broad spectrum of results that is somewhat disorganised and lacking in major structure, but due to the unpredictable nature of the research this was the required case. ‘New views of research also see the process as ‘messy’, and thus less systematic, research is also becoming accepted – particularly that which adopts more boundary pushing approaches’ (Clough & Nutbrown, 2002, p. 14). This also helps the youth interaction of the research help climb the ladder of participation (Hart, 1992) as well as climbing the pyramid that represents Maslow’s (1943) hierarchy of needs. As it allowed the young people to share decision one what would be presented in a piece of research about them, an adult initiated idea that shares decisions with young people. It also shows the young people’s respect for their opinions climbing the pyramid by providing respect by others. Applied/Basic Research A significant amount of basic research was carried out to gain a better understanding of the city, region and nation, not only in the youth work field, but also in all areas which may have an effect upon young people. The basic research consisted of enquiring into the history of the city and region. As Neville (2007, p. 3) states, ‘the primary aim of Basic Research is to improve knowledge generally, without any particular applied purpose in mind at the outset’. 25 | P a g e

Applied research was also conducted; this included mapping the city, dialogue with local people about local politics and government and conversation with various teaching staff about the situation for young people in Kumanovo at that moment. It is also enquiring into how the schooling system worked in Macedonia including the Albanian and Macedonian language school divisions as well as the high school divisions based on area of study. This was important information to obtain before obtaining the main information needed for study. This supports the statement that ‘applied research is designed from the start to apply its findings to a particular situation’ (Neville, 2007, p. 3). A significant amount of valuable research, both basic and applied, was obtained from the interviews conducted. Deductive/Inductive Research The majority of the research conducted was deductive, taking a broad range of ideas, opinions and theories and using them to establish a particular perception that young people hold within Kumanovo. ‘Deductive research moves from general ideas/theories to specific particular and situations’ (Neville, 2007, p. 3). As the methodology was to take the ideas, statements, thoughts, beliefs, opinions, theories and facts from young people and those who work with; using this research to create a conclusion to the question at hand. How do the young people, aged 14 – 19 years, perceive youth provision and opportunities in the city of Kumanovo? However, the research turns full circle and becomes inductive as the conclusion obtained is then used to create a broad range of ideas and suggestions for future youth work within Kumanovo. ‘Inductive research moves from particular situations to make or infer broad general ideas/theories’ (Neville, 2007, p. 3). Young people as human like adults, have a broad range of needs and perceptions and therefore a single path for youth work/provision development cannot be suggested. A broad spectrum of future provisions, paths, activities and directions must be created for the city’s future youth work. In this sense the research was a circular motion taking something from youth workers, teachers and young people and condensing it into something specific, but then taking that specific something and making it into a new bigger spectrum for the same people.

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4 Presentation of Data & Analysis The data collected from the research is presented in three manners; the interviews (Appendix F), the results from the workshops (Appendix G) and the results of the questionnaires (Appendix H). Interviews The interviews brought up a broad range of information useful to the research providing youth workers and young people’s opinions on the question at hand, and insight into the history of youth work in the city and explanations to where there was no literature. 4.1.1 Stefan Manevski – President of Center for Intercultural Dialogue Stefan Manevski touches on the concept that youth work in Macedonia, in particular Kumanovo, is simply seen as promotion of “volunteering among young people”. One of the most interesting statements Manevski makes in relation to this vision, is that it is not actually youth work; he states that youth work “is the thing that actually happens on the field in Kumanovo but not necessarily connected with the policies”. Manevski also makes known the fact that youth work in Kumanovo was provided in the past by “social workers and teachers”. This has led to a lack of understanding and a belief in civil society that youth work is “something we do for fun”. One would wonder if this perception passes on to young people and effects their own perceptions of youth provision and opportunity. Manevski also confirms his belief that youth work in Kumanovo is not used for empowerment and support for young people with fewer opportunities, stating “no it was not something that focused on bringing excluded people back to society and making them part of the system”. He suggests that this is because of ‘pressure’ from not only international donors, but also local government for quantity over quality in youth work projects. Manevski highlights the fact that youth work is not considered a profession in Macedonia and that no specifically trained youth workers in Kumanovo. He also highlights the fact that “there is also the informal pressure which has been put on 27 | P a g e

young people in formal education by their teachers, so if they are doing well in certain subjects, they should follow certain out-of-school programmes”. If this is how teachers perceive youth provision, what impact does this have on young people’s provision? Another notable item raised is that “the objectives of youth work in Kumanovo in the last years […] were to strengthen the intercommunity dialogue between the Macedonians and Albanians and also Roma, Serbians […] and not necessarily to strengthen young people’s roles in society”. One must consider what impacts these objectives have upon the young people’s perceptions and views of youth work in the city. Manevski states that “the youth movements in Kumanovo, although they are small and not really powerful, tend to stay outside of the youth work system because of reasons mentioned before: that it looks like a school, that it is run because of an objective […] it is more about something that international donors want”. Stefan Manevski goes further in-depth about the state of youth provision and makes a statement that supports the purpose of this research by concluding that “the problem there is that we are presuming the key aspects of what young people need and not asking them what they need”. However he suggests that this may be about to change with the establishment of Kumanovo Youth Council. When it comes to an actual statement about the realities of youth work within Kumanovo, Manevski clearly announces “Youth work is not in Kumanovo, what is in Kumanovo is a measurable, non-formal education process”. A bold and honest statement which raises the question that if this is how a youth worker perceives the system, what about young people? Manevski believes there is no perception of youth provision as a system in Kumanovo. If this is true it will have a significant impact upon the young people’s perception of youth provision and opportunities. 4.1.2 Aleksandra Cvetkovska – Volunteer at Center for Intercultural Dialogue Aleksandra reinforces the fact that the backbone of modern youth work in Kumanovo comes from NGO’s previous trained by international NGO’s. Cvetkovska 28 | P a g e

believes that less-educated “have a fear to express themselves and they have a fear to come to such an organisation and to do something and to learn something about themselves”. She also believes that young people’s participation can be very much peer-based as “well-educated, they are also afraid to come but they are inspired by their friends who have come to this kind of organisation”. Cvetkovska also provides a great insight into the perception of youth provision in the city. “In the past, nobody knew what is youth work, what you do in youth work, what is a youth organisation, they do not know nothing about youths. So now it is fashionable to be in youth work because it is under the government and the agency for sport have started to cover some work”. Furthermore she states: “youth work [in Kumanovo] is based on making projects and training courses and to be involved. It includes schools, they tried to put informal education in formal ways, but for me it was not really successful”. Which raises the question that if this is a volunteer’s perception, is it similar for young people? Cvetkovska also firmly states that youth work “in Kumanovo it is not ruled by politics. I think it is more based on not getting involved with politics but based on the real youth policy”. She continues to express the benefits of youth work in the city by defending youth works non-formal technique “Me, I have learned more from non-formal education than from formal and it is a very big difference”. Nevertheless she confirms that some people in the cities perceptions of this technique are not positive. She states “you always have someone who tells you that it is nonformal and that you are not right.” In conclusion one will wonder if these perceptions are held by young people. 4.1.3 Magdalena Manevska – Coordinator of Multi Kulti Youth Radio As a young person involved in youth work, Magdalena Manevska provides a fantastic insight into how a young people perceives youth provision within the city. She touches on the notion of some teachers now trying to use youth work techniques within the schools and that youth work itself in the city is more of an education method. She reinforces that active provision outside of youth work circles is uncommon as she states: “We use our methods there on the spot but not necessarily to go and talk to young people outside the youth centre.”

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Manevska goes into inspiring depth about the divide in youth work by social class acknowledging that youth work in the city has generally only catered for the more advantaged youth. However, she also actively talks about how as a young volunteer she is trying to adapt and change this, stating: “now we realise that the group we want to access are kind of excluded from the society and the people with whom we really need to work.” Manevska strongly shows her perception of youth work in the professional context that in defiantly different to responses from other interviews. She declares “this concept of professional youth workers I was first introduced when I first came to CID because there were people declaring themselves as youth workers but I don’t know what makes them more professional than other people that work with youths”. Which can bring one to the question, does the concept of professional youth work affect young people’s views on youth provision? Magdalena Manevska mentions an array of different organisations within the city from informal youth groups to registered clubs, bringing life to a garden of groups less heard of. They may be less heard of because when it comes to her organisation she mentions “there were stories being made up what we were doing in the city and we did not stop it, so afterwards it became a problem and there were people who did not want to come to the youth centre”. Is youth provision verbally attacked in the city and does this bring a negative vision to the young people? Manevska recognises the situation that within Kumanovo, people see youth work as only workshops and non-formal education. She mentions that new methods are growing and that she works with the radio club who “are not doing workshops at all but it is a totally different concept but it is still measurable”. Results from Workshops in School The results from the workshops show the young people’s views, opinions, wants, perceptions and participation about and within the city of Kumanovo. The schools that participated had their names abbreviated for better understanding of the type of school and the language of the school; ALB = Albanian language school and MK = Macedonian language school. All the high schools have been labelled by their type also; Gymnasia (Academic), Economics, Technical and Agricultural, whereas the elementary (primary) schools have been named ‘elementary’ fol30 | P a g e

lowed by the initials of the name of the school. For example ‘Goce Delcev High School’ equals ‘MK Gymnasia’ and ‘Bajram Shabani Elementary School’ equals ‘ALB Elementary BS’. The results from the workshops are split into four parts: -

Young people’s word to describe/represent Kumanovo ‘representing Kumanovo’.

Young people’s feelings on being a young person in Kumanovo ‘Youth feeling’.

Activities young people partake or want to partake in ‘activities’.

Rating of Young People’s opportunities in Kumanovo.

The full results of the workshops included the text from each paper can be found in Appendix F. 4.2.1 Representing Kumanovo This section provides the results gained from when the young people in each school workshop wrote on a piece of paper one or two words that for themselves describes or represents Kumanovo. This provided a varied and wide range of results which were then grouped into several categories which can be seen in the graphs below (Fig.9.), these range from ‘recreational areas’ to ‘education’. The results varied from school to school and this could be due many different factors such as different ethnicities, languages, religions, age groups and gender balances of the schools and classes that participated. The results are as follows:

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Fig.9. Pie charts depicting results from â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;representing Kumanovoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; part of the school workshops in each school followed by a total set of results in pie chart form.

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humour to represent Kumanovo and the ALB Elementary BS choosing both humour and recreational areas in equal measure. The MK Agricultural, MK Economics, MK Gymnasia, and MK Technical chose majority Kumani and sport, positive emotions or descriptions, negative emotions or descriptions and again positive emotion or description respectively. With only two schools having the highest percentage in the same area there is an obvious conclusion that young people from different schools have very different visions of Kumanovo. The total shows that over one fifth (22%) of young people chose positive emotions or descriptions to represent Kumanovo. However, this is followed closely by 15% choosing negative emotions or descriptions to represent the city. A notable observation is that 10% of young people chose to use humour to represent the city and another 10% use food; this can provide an insight into the culture and nature of young people in Kumanovo. With 8% choosing sport and 7% choosing recreational areas to represent Kumanovo it can be suggested that there is significant active population of young people in the city. 4.2.2 Youth Feeling This section provides the results gained from when the young people in each school workshop wrote on a piece of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;stickyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; paper (post-it note) some words or a sentence that describes how they feel as a young person in Kumanovo. This provided varied results which were then grouped into several categories which can be seen in the graphs below (Fig.10.), these were positive, neutral, sport related and negative. The results varied from school to school and this could be due to a number of varied factors such as different ethnicities, languages, religions, age groups and gender balances of the schools and classes that participated. The results are as follows:

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Fig.10. Pie charts depicting results from â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Youth Feelingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; part of the school workshops in each school followed by a total set of results in pie chart form.

The results vary with the ALB economics and ALB Elementary BS choosing both mostly positive statements about being young people in Kumanovo. The MK Technical made an overwhelming (71%) of positive statements followed by 52% and 50% making positive statements in MK Gymnasia and MK Economics respectively. MK Economics was the only one to have more negative (44%) statements that positive (39%), which draws the question why only the Macedonian language Economics school? With only two schools having the highest 34 | P a g e

percentage in the same area there is an obvious conclusion that young people from different schools have very different visions of Kumanovo. In total, the young people expressed mostly (61%) positive feelings for being young people in Kumanovo. However this does not exclude the fact that over one quarter (28%) of the young people expressed negative feelings followed by 10% of indifference expressed. 1% of young people used sport to express how they felt and even though this is not a large amount it does show that sport has significant value within the city.

4.2.3 Activities This section provides the results gained from when the young people in each school workshop wrote on a piece of ‘sticky’ paper (post-it note) activities that partake or want to partake in within Kumanovo. This provided a varied and wide range of results which were then grouped into several categories which can be seen in the graphs below (Fig.11.). These range from ‘sports’ to ‘travel’ and ‘language’ to ‘motorcycle’. Another category ‘organisations’ for when young people mentioned organisations that they did activities within Kumanovo. It must be noted that the number of young people who partook in the workshop is outweighed

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by the number of activities combined with organisations because a lot of young people partook or wanted to partake in more than one activity. The results were varied from school to school and this could be due to a number of varied factors such as different ethnicities, languages, religions, age groups and gender balances of the schools and classes that participated. The results are as follows:

Fig.11. Pie charts depicting results from â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;activitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; part of the school workshops in each school followed by a total set of results in pie chart form

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The most interesting result here is that the most stated activities is each school were sport related, except the agricultural school which were activities based around social life (38%). In the other schools sports activities were stated by 30% or more of the young people and by 58% and 59% in MK Economics and MK Technical respectively. Other notable factors are that MK Technical were the only young people to state motorcycle activities (18%) and alongside ALB Economics were the only ones not to state any organisations. Organisations were mentioned rarely, which shows there is little participation as well as suggested little knowledge of them. In total, the young people expressed mostly (41%) affinity for sport activities followed far behind by 12% affinity for activities based around social life. This suggests that sport is of significant value in Kumanovo and is vital in consideration for future youth provision. Social life however, should not be discredited as it is still of significant value to the young people within the city with travel (7%), relaxation (5%) and movies/TV (5%) following behind. In must be noted that 8% of young people mentioned different organisations such as sports clubs, youth organisations and religious organisations; although the majority of young people are not affected, it must be remembered that these organisations are having an impact on a significant portion of the youth population. 4.2.4 Rating of Young Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opportunities in Kumanovo This section displays the results of the part of the school workshops where young people were asked to rate on a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;targetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; from one to five the level of opportunity for young people in Kumanovo. One was the highest level and five was the lowest; an example is provided in Fig.12. The graph below (Fig.13.) displays the results. The full set of results can be found in Appendix G. Fig.12.

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The results show that the majority of schools did not demonstrate a negative view of youth opportunities in Kumanovo. However, some schools such as the ALB Economics (2.8) and ALB Elementary BS (2.7) showed a more indifferent view than MK Agricultural (3.92) and MK Gymnasia (3.95). In total, the young people demonstrated a slightly positive view of youth opportunity in Kumanovo with scores of 3.23, suggesting that whatever negative issues exist in the city young people still feel a there is a possibility for development. Questionnaire Results 188 young people completed the questionnaires from the same schools that took part in the workshops, an extra Albanian language elementary school labelled

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ALB Elementary Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, volunteers from CID and online participants. This distribution of who filled in these questionnaires is represented in the following pie chart: Fig.14. Distribution of who completed the questionnaires. The results of the questions have been divided into three sections: -

Background Information.

Participation Information.

Comparative SPSS Crosstabs.

The full results can be found in Appendix H. 4.3.1 Background Information This section presents the background information of the participants who took part in the questionnaires including age, religion, social class, feelings on own ethnicity, educational attendance and cohabitants. The results are as follows: Age of participants

As can be seen the majority of participants were between the ages of 14 and 19 with largest groups being 18, 14, 16 and 17 years respectively. This is in coher-

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ence with the question at hand with some younger and older participants for the research to provide a wider scope. Religion

The pie chart shows that the largest group of young people were Christian Orthodox (49%) followed by Muslim (38%) with a minority of Christian other, Atheist, other and no answer. The results are what were to be expected as they are not in line with, but generally follow the ratio of religious demographics in the nation. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Macedonian Orthodox 64.7%, Muslim 33.3%, other Christian 0.37%, other and unspecified 1.63%â&#x20AC;&#x2122; (Index Mundi, 2013).

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Social Class

The majority of participants felt that their social status was ‘middle class’ which suggests either an economic situation within the city or how young people perceive themselves or wish to be received. 12% of the participants considered themselves rich with only 2% poor with the remainder preferring not to say. For a city with high unemployment levels it can be suggest that these results show young people’s wishes on how to be perceived rather than the actual facts. As Dimova (2011, p. 19) states ‘Kumanovo […] are regions with higher than average umemployment rates, both for young and adults workers’.

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Ethnic Pride

The pie chart shows that the majority of participants (53%) are very proud to be of their ethnicity or nationality. However, almost a quarter (24%) of young people are not really or not at all proud to be of their ethnicity or nationality. With 85 of the young people being indifferent over half the youth population are still very proud, one must question what effect this can have on the perception of youth provision, especially that of an intercultural nature. Other Other statistics to be noted are that only 3% of the young people who partook in the questionnaire did not attend school or university and only 5% of young people did not live with my mother or father.

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4.3.2 Participation Information This section will present the data on youth participation and request from the questionnaire. This includes if young people have participated in actions with youth organisations, if no why not, if yes are they still involved, if yes how did they hear about it, if they want to take part in future activities and are they happy they took part. The results are as follows: Participation

In contrast to the workshops results within the questionnaire almost half (47%) of the participants had taken part in some action arranged by a youth organisation. Still the majority of young people have not, however it shows that youth organisations are having an extremely large impact on the city.

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Why Not

Most young people stated that if they did not participate it was because of a lack of time or they did not know they could (both 29%). However 28% stated it was because they had no interest in the provision followed 11% showing a peer influence as they did not take part because neither were their friends. Only 3% expressed non-participated due to fear. These results suggest that youth organisations need to improve advertising and the range of provisions.

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Continued Participation

One of the most interesting results from the questionnaire is that even though47% of young people have participated in an action from youth organisations, only 24% of them have continued to participate. Questions arise on why this is the case? This also helps legitimise the results from the workshops where only 8% of young people mentioned organisations in activities. Method of Discovery

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Out of those 47% who have participated in a youth organisation 44% found out about the activity through their peers, followed by 29% who were informed through school. 10% stated their families as sources of information, but what is notable is that only small percentages of young people stated internet (9%), youth workers (6%) and street events (3%) as sources of information. These results support the suggestion generated by the results why young people do not participate; that youth organisations should improve their advertising. Future Participation

It may be the case that on 47% of young people have participated in youth organisations and that only 24% of them continue to do so, but this does not mean that young people in Kumanovo are not interested in participating. A massive 84% of the young people who answered the questionnaire stated that they want to participate in activities in future. This supports the notion developed earlier that youth organisations are not provision the correct or a broad enough provision.

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Feelings on Participation

It is interesting to see that of those 47% who have participated 85% are happy to extremely happy that they participated. 7% of the young people did not know and only 8% were not happy with none young people stating they were not at all happy. These results lead to a somewhat confusing notion that the provisions were good enough to make young people happy, but not good enough for continued activity. 4.3.3 Comparative SPSS Crosstabs These results help to understand why different answers come from different areas such as different schools/areas having different levels of young people participating, etc.

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School / Area / Online vs. Participation: Participation Youth Or-

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ganisations Kumanovo Yes

School / Area / Online

Online

MK Economics

MK Technical

MK Agricultural

MK Gymnasium

ALB Economics

ALB Elementary T

CID Volunteers

100

188

ALB Elementary BS

Total

This crosstab shows from which area the respondents who have participated in youth organisations are from. It is clear to see that those from online, MK Technical and ALB Elementary BS have higher participation levels in comparison to MK Gymnasia and ALB Elementary T. What is the reason for this? Is it a geographical, cultural or social difference? Do youth organisations have less or more access to these areas? Religion vs Participation

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participate that not. Are those of no religious ties more likely to participate in such organisations and does your religion affect you participation in youth provision?

Age vs Participation

The interesting results from this section are that equal numbers of both 14 and 19 years olds have and have not participated in youth organisations. Is there something special about these ages, are they major turning points in young peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lives and does this affect their needs and perceptions? The numbers of those 15 years and over 20 years are too low to make comment. It is worth noting that of those with significant numbers, the 17year olds have significantly more young people who have participated than not.

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5 Summary & Conclusions Summary How do the young people 14 – 19 perceive youth provision / opportunity in the city of Kumanovo, republic of Macedonia? The results have shown that even though the majority of young people are not involved in youth organisations, the majority of young people do not have a negative perception of youth provision and opportunity in the city either. In fact young people have shown an eagerness to engage in future activities. It seems that there is more of a problem in what is provided and how it is portrayed by the organisations. How the youth provision itself is perceived is still difficult to tell as young people all different, like adults, and it is hard to develop an idea for one perception for such a large group. What can be said is that young people know that at least something is there and there is a keen interest to be involved. It can be seen that political agendas, ethnic tension, and outside interests play apart in not only the direction of youth provision, but the dissuasion of young people. Young people, like adults, work all day and in their free time are solely interested in educational development, whatever the method. What the results show is that the young people of Kumanovo are generally proud of who they are and their city and that they want to partake in activities that are fun, accessible and relatively expense-less. In fact its seems that young people in Kumanovo want to engage in sport, music, art, street, social and travel activities without having to declare their dedication to Europe’s (European Commission, 2014) or and outside funders agenda. Also the areas they have mentioned are perfect platforms for youth organisations to engage in Kolb’s experiential learning cycle (1974). The results show that adults conducted youth provision must constantly engage in dialogue with young people about what they want and need because ‘the young person of today must make decisions in areas where his parents’ standards may be obsolete’ (Hilgard, et al., 1971, p. 92). The young people of Kumanovo have demonstrated knowledge of youth provisions, a want to partake and that what is available does not fully suit their needs. Youth organisations must now ‘take in the perceptions and experiences of the other person [young people]’ (Harrison & Wise, 2005, p. 97). 50 | P a g e

Through this research the young people have spoken; the activities are there, but to provision is not what is require otherwise more young people would continue to participate. Youth organisations now have to develop a level of respect for young people that allows them to use this research to provide for the youth. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Developing this level of respect requires workers to become increasingly self-aware, open to change, willing to question and challenge themselvesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (Harrison & Wise, 2005, p. 97). Evaluation The research has been vast and provided all that is require to reach a conclusion, with more time would come more workshops, questionnaires and interviews allowing a more detailed and accurate result. However a large sample size was used and three different areas of research conducted. The achievement of a conclusion was reached and greater understanding of the young people aged 1419 years old in the city of Kumanovo achieved. The biggest achievement however is the research itself as it can be used not only for this paper, but for future development of youth provision in Kumanovo. The hope is that this is the foundation for more truly direct dialogue with young people within the stated aged range and more provision adapted and created upon their opinions. Kumanovo is a truly unique and interesting city with a population of fantastic young people who will engage in conversation and participation. It just needs to be conducted in the correct manner. This city has a growing community of youth activists, workers and organisations and is a great place for anyone working in the field to watch and observe. Future Work When thinking about the concept of future work in Kumanovo it can easily be noted that CID has the best capacity and the volunteers with the enthusiasm to facilitate a coordinated development throughout the city. A suggestion for CID is engage with all the high schools in Kumanovo city on a monthly basis; either through similar workshops as contained in this reassert or forming youth councils in each school that can not only influence youth policy, but also influence CIDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own youth provision. Fadil a teacher from the Albanian Elementary school Bajram Shabani has stated that schools have worked with youth organisations before 51 | P a g e

and that â&#x20AC;&#x153;more projects should be done with Macedonians including sports, music anything that includes good stuff, not listening like politicsâ&#x20AC;?. It is highly recommended that CID and the Municipality reopen old youth centres with resource centres/areas within them containing all the information young people need on the available youth provision in the city. This can be from all the information on sports and arts clubs to help, advice and support. These centres should also be an open provision where young people can come to relax or take part in activates and even have the opportunity develop their own activities. The use of these youth centres would require heavy advertising as one does not simply open the doors and young people attend. As seen from the research young people need to be informed and have friends attending. Looking into other areas of the research it is fairly notable that sport is of significant importance for young people in the city, with a huge population of the respondents stating that they want to take part in future activities to do with sport. Also through the workshops a lot of young people expressed an affinity for the Kumani Ultras and it is highly obvious that these ultras have a large impact on young people. It is advisable that CID and the municipality set a link with this group as well as the Albanian football group and the Serbian Red Star Ultras for development of sporting opportunities for young people. These groups are also heavily involved in graffiti art across the city and a link could be used for street art events that fit the statements made by the questionnaire respondents that they are interested in street and activities (Appendix H). In recent times there have been a number of humanitarian football and other sporting games in the city which have proved popular it is suggested that youth organisations in the city look into this. Alongside a youth provision of what young people want, the arrangement of such games can be used for financing such organisations and developing their capacity. Running is growing in popularity within the city and the quay is the main place for it and has been published online (MapMyFitness Inc., 2014). The quay is one of few maintained areas within the city with a set area for running. It is highly recommended that youth organisations look into the development and support of a

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running club that can in turn apply for projects to develop more dedicated running areas in the city. Cycling is also extremely popular in summer and last year the NGO BUJRUM was involved in a cycle path development cross-border program with a Bulgarian NGO called ‘Savouring Unique Nature’ (EIA, 2013). However, these cycle path maps (EIA, 2013) are not easily accessible and have not been promoted to their full potential. The project was an excellent one, developing a sport many young people have claimed to take part in and enjoy, but its needs a continuation. Street activities were very popular on the questionnaires for future activities. Streets Festival Kumanovo (Streets Festival Kumanovo, 2010) is an NGO that specializes in such events having run major street festivals in the past. In recent years it has not done so much, but at the time of this writing, the president of Streets Festival Kumanovo Aleksandra Davidovska reported that they “have 8 volunteers working from the European Voluntary Service working towards a street animation festival on the 1st May 2014”. It is highly recommend that Streets Festival Kumanovo is fully revived and starts to run some major street festivals again. On a final note to most important thing for the development of the youth service in Kumanovo is continued dialogue with young people through liaising with schools, street based youth work and open youth centres. As Jeffs & Smith (1996, p. 27) state ‘conversation is central to our work as informal educators, yet we often undervalue it’. It is such conversation that will allow the youth provision to climb Hart’s (1992) ladder of participation to ‘youth initiated activities, shared decisions with adults’. This way the organisations can provide young people with what they ask for rather than just assuming what is needed, because as the Belson (1974) stated ‘you should never assume, because when you assume you make an ass out of you and me’.

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Appendix A National Youth Council Macedonia (NYCM) Portfolio 2013 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; See end of document.

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Appendix B CID Annual Report Initiative for Acknowledgement and Professionalization of Youth Work (AYWM) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; See end of document.

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Appendix C CID Annual Report 2013 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; See end of document.

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Appendix D List of other youth organisations in Kumanovo Адресар на засегнати страни / Address of Stakeholders

Општина Куманово / Kumanovo Muncipality 11-ти Октомври бб, 1300 Куманово Tel - (031) 475-800 / (031)438-633 Е-маил: kontakt@kumanovo.gov.mk

Е-маил: kumanovoyouthcouncil@gmail.com Страна: https://www.facebook.com/KumanovoYouthCouncil Членови на Локален Младински Совет Куманово:

Центар за меѓукултурен дијалог Вера Которка 39, 1300 Куманово Tel/Fax: ++389 31 421 330 E-mail: contact@cid.mk

Општинска организација на Црвен крст Куманово / Red Cross Kumanovo 11 Октомври бр.1 Куманово, Tel: +389 31 424-179 E-mail:kumanovo@redcross.org.mk

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Фото Кино Клуб Козјак 50 / Photo Cinema Club Kozjak Ул. Тане Георгиевски бр 25 / Народна Техника, Куманово Tel: +389 78 240 006 E-mail: fkk_kozjak@yahoo.com

Центар за рурален развој Бујрум / Center for Rural Development Bujrum Meсна Заедница Проевце, улица 605 б.б., Проевце, Куманово Тел: +389 78 350598 Е-mail: bujrumcenter@gmail.com

Здружение Стритс Фестивал / Streets festival Kumanovo Улица 605 бр 15, Проевце 1300 Куманово Тел: +389 71 234 369 Е-маил: info@streetsfestival.com

Младински Исламски Форум – Куманово / Young Islamic Forum Kumanovo Карл Маркс 16, Локалитет Феникс Тел: + 389 75 362 851 Е-маил: kumanova@fri.org.mk Roma Youth Centre Тел: +38971376260 Е-маил: info_romayouthcentre@yahoo.com

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Млади Европски Федералисти на Македонија – клуб Куманово / Young European Fedralists Доне Божинов, 1300 Куманово Е-маил: Macedonia@jef.eu

Српска Заједница у Македонији / Serbian Group in Macedonia ул: Доне Божинов 24, 1300 Куманово телефон: 075 283 145 Е-маил: szm_rokumanovo@yahoo.com

СОС Куманово / SOS Kumanovo Тел: +389 77 938 928 Е-маил: ngo.soskumanovo@gmail.com

Либерално-Демократска Младина Куманово / Liberal Democratic Youth Kumanovo E-маил: liberaldemocraticparty@gmail.com

Млади на Демократската Партија на Албанците – Куманово / Youth for the Democratic Party of Albanians Kumanovo Е-маил: info@gurra-pdsh.org

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Младинска организација на Демократската партија на Србите во Македонија / Youth Organisation for the Democratic Party for Serbians in Macedonia. E-маил: omladinadpsm@yahoo.com

Унија на млади сили на ВМРО-ДПМНЕ – Куманово / Youth Wing of VMRO E-маил: ok-kumanovo@vmro-dpmne.org.mk

Социјал Демократска Младина на Македонија СДММ – Куманово / Democratic Youth of Macedonia SDSM Е-маил: kumanovo@sdsm.org.mk

Млади на Демократската Унија за Интеграција (ДУИ) – Куманово / Youth for Democratic Union for Intergration Е-маил: cabinet@bdi.mk Останати граѓански организации во Куманово кои работат со млади: Other NGO’s in Kumanovo working with Youth

Извиднички Одред Скаут / Scouts телефон: +389 78 25 83 69 e-mail: skaut_ku@yahoo.com

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ЦРЗ-ДРОМ / DROM Roma Centre Адреса: Бајрам Шабани ББ 1300 Куманово, Р. Македонија Телефон: ++ 389 (0) 31 / 411 406 E-mail: info@drom.org.mk

Национален Ромски Центар / National Roma Centre ул. „Доне Божинов“ 11/5, Куманово тел: 031 427 558 Е-маил: info@nationalromacentrum.org

Хуманитарно здружение Мајка / Humanitarian Mothers ул. Ѓорче Петров бр.33 Куманово тел.031 421 341 Е-маил: vavku@fremail.com.mk

Здружение на жени “СИРМА” / Association of Women " SIRMA " Боро Прцан 26, Kуманово ТелЧ +389 31 520 650 Е-маил: tatjanakrstevska@yahoo.com

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Здружение Арка / Association ARKA Караорман 6, Куманово Телефон: +389 31 421 362 Е-маил: arka@arka.org.mk

Граѓанска асоцијација Доверба – Куманово / Civic Trust Association - Kumanovo „Тоде Думба“ 100/2-14, Куманово Тел: 031/425-862 Е-маил: doverbaku@hotmail.com

Здружение Даја / Association Daja Иво Лола Робар, бр.46, Куманово Телефон: +389(0)31 413662 Е-маил: daja@daja.org.mk

Здружение Флоренс Најтингел / Association Florence Nightingale тел. +389 70 582 029 e-mail: advijelatifi@yahoo.co.uk

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Appendix E Participation Questionnaire Kumanovo - Youth Activity Question 1. Have you ever participated in an activity with a youth organisation in Kumanovo? Дали имаш учествувано на некаква активност преку младинска организација во Куманово? A ke marr pjesë ndonjëher në aktivetet me ndonjë organizatë rinore në Kumanovë? Yes / No Да / Не Po / Jo 2. If no, why not? Доколку одговори со Не, зошто? Nëse JO, pse Jo? No interest / Did not know I could / No time / Friends were not involved / Fear Не си заинтересиран/ Не знаев дека можам / Немам време/ Моите пријатели не се вклучени/ Од страв Nuk kam interes / Nuk e dija që mundem / nuk kam kohë / Shokët nuk ishin të përfshirë / Frika 3. If yes, how did you find out about the Youth Organisation? Доколку одговори со Да, како дозна за младинската организација? Nëse Po, si jeni informuar rreth Organizatës Rinore? Internet / Friends / Family / Advertising / School / Open day / Street Event / Youth Worker Интернет/Пријатели/Фамилија/Реклама/училиште/Отворен ден/ Уличен настан/ Младински работник Internet / Shokët / Familja / Reklamim / Shkollë / Ditë të Hapura / Evente në Rrrug / Puntorët Rinor 4. If yes, What inspired / motivated you to take part? Доколку одговори со Да, што те мотивираше/ поттикна да земеш учество? Nëse Po, Çka të frtymëzoi / motivoi të merrni pjesë? 5. If yes, are you more involved in the Youth Organisations such as regularly volunteering / member of organisation? Доколку одговори со Да, дали си вклучен во некоја организација како волонтер или член на организација? Nëse Po, a jeni më shumë të përfshirë në Organizatat Rinore si vullnetarë/antarë të rregullt të organizatës? Yes / No 68 | P a g e

Да / Не Po / Jo If Yes, what activities does that Youth Organisation make or do you get involved in? Доколку одговори со Да, какви активности организира младинската организиција или дали си вклучен во некоја од активностите? Nëse Po, Çfar aktivitete bën Organizata Rinore që ti je i përfshirë? 6. What type of youth activities do / would you like to take part in? (For example: sports activities / art activities / street activities / etc..) Какви активности би сакал ти да се вклучиш? (На пример спортски активности, улични активности, цртање и сл.) Çfarë lloji të aktiviteteve rinore bën/ do të dëshiroje të mirrësh pjesë? ( psh: aktivitete sportive/ arti/rrugore/etj.) 7. Do you want to take part in some / more Youth Activities in future: Дали би сакал/а да се вклучиш повеќе во младински активности во иднина A doni të merrni pjesë në disa/ më shumë Aktivitete Rinore në të ardhmen: Yes / No Да / Не Po / Jo 8. Did you know the other people attending the youth organisation before you came: Дали ги знаеше луѓето кои волонтираат во организацијата пред да се приклучиш A doni të merrni pjesë në disa/ më shumë Aktivitete Rinore në të ardhmen: Yes / No / Some Да / Не / Неколку Po /Jo/ Disa 9. Are you happy you took part in the Youth Activities: Дали сте задоволни што сте се вклучиле во младинска активност? A je i kënaqur që more pjesë në Aktivitete Rinore: Extremely / Very / Yes / Don't Know / No / Very Much No / Not At All Премногу/ Многу/Да/ Не знам / Не / Не многу/ Воопшто Pa masë / Shumë / Po / Nuk e di / Jo / Jo shumë / Jo aspak

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Да / Не Po / Jo If No who do you live with: Доколку одговоривте со Не, со кого живеете Nëse Jo me kë jetoni: 11. What is your age (Please circle correct one): Колку години имате? (Заокружетего бројот на вашите години) Cila është mosha juaj(Ju lutemi rrethoni moshen e sakt): 13

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12. Do you attend school: Дали одиш на училиште? A shkon në shkollë: Yes / No Да / He Po / Jo 13. Are you very proud to be from your country / of your ethnicity or nationality: Дали си горд на твојата држава/ на твојата етничка група или националност A je shumë krenar të jeni nga vendi juaj / nga etniciteti apo nacionaliteti juaj: Very Much / A Little / Not Sure / No Really / Not At All Многу/ Малку /Не знам/ Не многу/ Воопшто Shum/Pak / Sjam i sigurt / jo bash/ jo aspak 14. Are you very proud to be from Europe Дали би бил горд да бидеш дел од Европа A je krenar të jesh prej Europe Yes / No Да / Не Po / Jo 15. Do your parents / guardians all have jobs: дали твоите родители/старатели се во постојан работен однос A janë të punsuar prindërit/kujdestarët e juaj: Yes / No / Only Father / Only Mother Да / Не / Само татко ми / Само мајка ми Po / Jo / vetëm Babai / Vetëm Nëna 16. Do you consider your family to be: Како ја гледаш твојата фамилија A e konsideron familjen tënde të jetë e: 70 | P a g e

Rich / In The Middle / Poor / Prefer Not To Say Богати / Средна класа / Сиромашни / Не би сакал да кажам Pasur / në mes / varfër / preferoj mos ta them 17. What is your Religion? Која е твојата религија? Çfar religjioni keni?

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Appendix F Interview Transcriptions Interview 1 Stefan Manevski â&#x20AC;&#x201C; President of Centre for Intercultural Dialogue When do you think the concept of youth work was first used in Interviewer Kumanovo and from what day can we speak of the government speaking of youth work? It depends, there are two ways of seeing this. If we see Kumanovo in the times of Yugoslavia, then it started with the establishment of the so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pioneer Housesâ&#x20AC;? which were basically intended to be some sort of youth centres. I am sure that the programmes in the pioneer houses did not have references to youth work as we have today as they were seen as extracurricular activities. But as a form of youth organising and out of school activities, they were still intended for some sort of development for young people, we call them an initial form of youth work. Then the mentioning of youth work in modern Macedonian Kumanovo is with the first youth strategy of the city. It was developed around 2004/2005 were again the concept of youth work was completely misinterpreted in a form of making young people work. Respondent So it was not working in terms of employment, but in some sorts of activities. When you look at the current strategy youth service Kumanovo, you will see that the idea of youth work there is promotional volunteering among young people which is not youth work by itself but basically there are these two concepts colliding. When we actually talk about youth work, it is the thing that actually happens on the field in Kumanovo but not necessarily connected with the policies, so for some this could fit in the field of non-formal education and this is how they promoted it, for others it could fit in the form of youth activism and is how they would use it on the policy level but these terms, when you read the background information on what they want to achieve, it is much more connected to what we understand as youth work today rather than what is mentioned as youth work in the policy. In general, youth work is considered to be a third section intervention, a voluntary intervention. Has this always been the case in Interviewer Kumanovo or was it previously based formally or was it based in schools before it became volunteer outside the curriculum and when did it change? Respondent There are several points. Within Yugoslavia, within the PNR cen73 | P a g e

tres, the people there were paid and a lot of them were either social workers or teachers. They were not people that had any youth work curricular. What they were doing was that they were teaching but not in a school but in a youth centre. I would not say that they were youth workers as such but they paid people to do some kind of activities outside the school. Then secondly, there was a set of youth work promotion activities and programs that were externally funded which had a lot of people working there that got certain training about youth work but not necessarily public funded. Basically it is just foreign donors or foundations, different international organisations funding projects. All of these projects had as an idea to establish a system which would afterwards be taken on by the local authorities which until the moment did not happen. Maybe it is because of a lack of understanding what this is because it is still seen as an international intervention in the city but on the other hand there is also a lack of understanding on why it is needed because for many of the policy makers it is still something we do for fun and for leisure activities for young people and also the whole civil society is seen as something that is profitable or as something that people just do to get a job rather than to have some sort of a social change. There are these two gaps on how stuff is understood and that is why so far in Kumanovo, there was never anyone being paid from the public authorities to work as a youth worker. In the whole of Macedonia, there might be some differences but then we can also discuss if these are only the pictures that are being painted. What was the influential theory that underpinned youth work in Interviewer Kumanovo? Has there been an evolution in these concepts or have they stayed the same? Well the big promotion of youth work in Kumanovo, I cannot say it happened methodological with the first Babylon centre, there was more a mixture of non-formal education with leisure time activities. The Babylon centre was actually the youth work that is maybe the closest to what you have in Wales. It is like an open centre where young people go whenever they want, where there is a person that works with them, gives them support and they can do different Respondent sorts of activities and within that there is informal or spontaneous learning happening and support. Then there was another process running from 2004/2005 until 2007/2008 that was run by Triagolnik which was focused a lot on youth work as a non-formal education process. That was the point when we re-introduced the programmes in youth work and reintroduced the concept of school within a youth centre. So the 74 | P a g e

thing of having specifically developed programmes that have to follow certain curricular and then have to follow the non-formal education principles meaning it is a learner centre, it is experimental learning based but there is always a facilitator who should run the programmes. The thing about these programmes is that they introduced timing so young people became participants and they had to arrive at certain specific times, leave at certain specific times and if something happens in between this is awkward because this is taught in formal education, like staying in school after it finished is not cool. So staying in a youth centre is also not considered to be cool if we operate on the same system. So basically the biggest influence comes from there. For some people, youth work can be seen as an emancipation of young people or control of young people. Unfortunately, youth work seems a lot of the time to empower only powerful young people and to become a control mechanism for vulnerable young Interviewer people. Is this the case in Kumanovo? Has youth work empowered young people from vulnerable backgrounds or has it only been well-off educated young people that take part? Has it always been like that or is the situation changing? I would say no because it is part of extracurricular activities. Youth work is still seen as a learning process and for a lot of people, the first basic and only learning process is formal education. The standard is that if you are good in formal education, then you are allowed to take extra learning activities where youth work fits. This is the thing of exclusion because a lot of times people expect only the ones that are very good in formal education to come to the youth centre afterwards which should not be the theoretical approach but on the other side there are also other factors. For example the youth work has always been externally funded and Respondent this creates pressure of having high numbers of people which is more important than actual effects. So for a lot of international donors, but also local municipalities, the biggest effect is to have 500 people, regardless how you involve them working with 5 people that are facing serious exclusion and get them to feel a bit more comfortable about themselves. It is a constant problem and I would say that in the long term, certain Roma projects could be seen as youth work and that they had certain effects but strategically as youth work, no it was not something that focused on bringing excluded people back to society and making them part of the system. Some youth workers and policy makers say that real youth work is Interviewer voluntary work. Ideally there are no professionals involved. Are 75 | P a g e

there people considered professional youth workers in Kumanovo and if so, when did they enter the youth work scene and why did they enter the scene? I do not agree with the statement that youth work is not a profession, especially because we have noticed it in the youth centre in Kumanovo that once you have people, not necessarily with a university degree, but who have a certain understanding of what it means to work with young people and how to set it up. Once you have these people working with young people, then they are more motivated to stay, to run things and to do stuff. When it moves into completely voluntarily, then the motivation also drops at a certain point. It also depends on who volunteers and how but that is another question because in this context it is mainly young people who volunteer as peer educators to other young people. In Kumanovo, the notion is that there is still no understanding of what youth work is. In a way that is that putting young people to do Respondent something which is strange because this is not what youth work is. Then, when we see it as someone who puts someone to do something, then this can be anyone. But then actual youth workers as professionals, we can say that there are people who finished the university course on it or they follow different sorts of trainings and then other activities afterwards, but then seeing that these are nonformal education programmes rather than youth work programmes, then I would say that there are not widely trained professionals for youth work. There are people that could run programmes themselves, so there are professionals available in the field but they are not employed as youth workers, they work on other issues as well and it can be said that there is no framework that defines what a youth worker is so you cannot employ a professional youth worker in this sense. The voluntary participation of young people is a key dimension of youth work. Are there examples of compulsory youth work? Are Interviewer there examples of young people being forced to take part in youth work? It depends on what compulsory is, because you have formal compulsory, which does not exist in Kumanovo. There are no such examples of where people are obliged to do something. There is also the informal pressure which has been put on young people in Respondent formal education by their teachers, so if they are doing well in certain subjects, they should follow certain out of school programmes. This happens a lot but it is not absolutely not related to what the objective of the programme is because they only go there because their teacher said so and because they are being rewarded with a 76 | P a g e

better grade in school or some nice recommendation from the teacher. Basically the role of youth workers there is minimum and the influence of the youth worker can do is also minimum because whatever happens in this process is always re-evaluated by the teacher back in the school and more doomed back to whatever behaviour the teacher wants the young person to have. So we can say this is a non-formal way of compulsory youth work that happens and it happens because youth work here is led by civil society which often involves teachers. So the teachers teach in schools, but they also work in NGOs that have projects as a youth work component and they are the ones who bring young people to these projects to show participation rates. The effects of this are really small, I would not say that the effects of voluntary youth work are amazing because it is a long lasting process, but considering that somebody came on their own will to one programme versus someone who was there for the completely wrong reasons, I would go much more with the first action. What is youth work in Kumanovo now? Youth work usually follows social change such as an ethnic conflict, reconciliation or other issues, though sometimes youth work can be ahead a situation. Interviewer Youth movements can either be ahead or separate from these movements, so what is youth work in Kumanovo and has it evolved for the right reasons? It started as a leisure activity and then it gathered more of the kids with good grades. Then it moved into a conflict intervention activity because as a former conflict region, everybody was funding programmes like that and with everybody I mean international funding bodies because local bodies are still not aware that they have to fund citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; initiatives and it does not exist as such. But this creates problems because it gives limits with what your work can achieve just because there are other objectives set to it which are not necessarily objectives of youth work. The objectives of youth work in Kumanovo in the last years, not Respondent just the Multi Kulti process but also previous processes in youth centres, were to strengthen the intercommunity dialogue between the Macedonians and Albanians and also Roma, Serbians, depends on how the project is defined, and not necessarily to strengthen young peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roles in society. They often fail in the way that there is no responsibility to the young personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role in society within the programmes. But you reach a point of saying, ok you have met each other, you can leave together more or less or you can ignore each other. Basically the second one is happening more often, but they do not fight with 77 | P a g e

each other and that is where the programme ends. And there is nothing of â&#x20AC;&#x153;you are responsible nowâ&#x20AC;? to make sure that the society works. This idea of being active in your community, supporting the idea of youth participation was lacking for youth work. In this context it is a bit tricky to speak about the relations between youth policy, youth work and youth research because often there is no such relations. I mean youth work is run by projects, the youth policy is a formality and the youth research is run in order to confirm if somebody is good or bad. It can be stated that youth work is, although youth work was never a mass activity in any country, is pretend to represent all young people. So even though youth work is only working with a small amount of young people in most countries, they pretend to represent all young people. Does youth work in Kumanovo reinforce a Interviewer division between well-organised, well-educated, well-behaved participative young people and those who are unorganised, margined minorities or under-privileged or young people in poverty? Does the youth work in Kumanovo help to break that line or reinforce that line? Going back to the previous question, the youth movements in Kumanovo, although they are small and not really powerful, tend to stay outside of the youth work system because of reasons mentioned before: that it looks like a school, that it is run because of an objective that is not necessarily the objective of the youth movements, but it is more about something that international donors want, they are more about the fact that there are not many youthled systems. How the systems are set up are in a way that young people would never lead or participate in that. It is a different way of how decisions are made and then this might be factors of nonparticipation. Respondent So having this in mind, it does enforce a divide especially because you have a set of young people who take the power to speak on behalf of young people in need who do not necessarily have the chance to voice out their needs because they do not see their own needs, they are not able to recognize their own needs. And then you have young people who are alternative to this and who believe they have found a way by themselves which often happens. For example we have participants that come to the youth centre and after a while they are pushed by their parents or by the community to become members of political parties and get a job. That is how it works. So when you figure out a way of how to manage the society, you do not necessarily need youth work. Interviewer What was the first youth work research in Kumanovo? How did 78 | P a g e

they come up with the idea of what they first did and has it changed? I do not know much about the pre-2001 period how it happened but I am sure that it happened in some way. There are mainly 2 forms of research, one is through schools which is for the local understanding of things and schools are the main focus point where you find young people. Once they leave school they are not young anymore. And this is why there is the systematic missing because you do not recognize them as young people at certain points. So the first one is through schools, using questionnaires and a very limited set of questions about certain issues. So the research is either done just to check how the interethnic relations are or to Respondent check how young people participate demographically or not and you can guess that these are the projects from the NGOs. With regards to the local municipality they do not have any data on young people, because there is nowhere defined a group within the community that is called youth. So basically, young people are either children under 18 or are adults over 18. There is no specific group and when you look at all the policies in the municipalities due to this, because there is no specific research to youth, there are no youth-related policies for employment, urban standards like where to meet and what young people do in free time, leisure activities, including youth work as well. What has been the role of this research in Kumanovo? Has it let to Interviewer youth work policy today and the youth work strategy in Kumanovo or is policy based more on what politics wants or something else? In the process of establishing the current youth policy of the city there was a research. The problem is that the youth policy was made with the same ideas as the national youth policy. So the research was used just to show within the areas identified in the national youth policy, what are the local needs of the young people in Kumanovo. For me, the problem there is that we are presuming the key aspects of what young people need and not asking them what they need so we could feed it with data. So I think it is a bit of Respondent both and a compromise between the two things. It does not necessarily bring an evidence based policy because it is not an open process as we already presume the needs of the young people within the key areas. It is also not a completely manipulated process as you still use this data to feed in the strategy. I would say one of the reasons why this strategy failed in Kumanovo because it was brought but never implemented, was the fact that it used these limitations instead of focusing on 2-3 key issues of young people in 79 | P a g e

Kumanovo and developing a system of support, we used the 9 national priorities, we copied them and we forced ourselves to find issues to work on them on local level instead of seeing if this is actually important here. Now there is a new process of establishing a new local youth work policy, hopefully with the council and with bigger participation that hopefully will not repeat this kind of mistakes. A lot of the times, youth work research tells us about the young people rather than give us information on how we practice youth work. It gives us a profile of young people but does not tell us how Interviewer we work with them. Is this the case in Kumanovo? Because of this, do you think youth work in Kumanovo has counterproductive effects? Do you think youth work can have bad effects? With the research, yes the profile of young people which is often used in a way in which the organiser of youth work wants to present it so that it justifies the idea of a project that they have. Basically, you have a bunch of descriptions and data and manipulatively they only use the data that they need to justify why a certain thing is needed. But this is also happening on a national level. There is a very funny thing happening now, if you look at Macedonia Baby, it will say that Macedonia is in a very dark stage with new-born babies for example and that we are dying out as a nation. If you look at the statistics, that is not true. Every year there are more and more babies born. The problem is not in having more babies, the problem is that people are migrating afterwards with the babies. So in 2006 for example, there were 22004 babies were born but only 20000 of them signed up for primary school. This means that 2000 of them moved out of the country with their famiRespondent lies. This is only an example on national level, but this is the same system that is also being used on local level to justify why a certain project is needed and why a certain programme is needed for young people in order to have a certain grant afterwards. It is not necessarily seen as a long term process of development or monitoring the situation. Going back to the profile of young and seeing if it actually makes a difference or not. Is youth work having counter effects having this in mind, yes. Just because there is no system of checking what was done and how this can be advanced and what were the short comings of what was done and how this can be addressed. So you would have processes were you would have the same issues with the same participants which get bored and then stop believing that this is a way of participation or empowerment and then just completely leave and become demotivated. 80 | P a g e

And constantly missing out a group of people, especially those who nobody wants to work with and then things like this come up again but nobody is actually addressing them because there is no feedback system. In Kumanovo, is youth work seen as non-formal education and is it Interviewer seen as measurable? Can you measure the impact of youth work in Kumanovo? Youth work is not in Kumanovo. What is in Kumanovo is a measurable, non-formal education process. The measurements are completely wrong. It is the number of people coming and the number of different ethnic groups coming and boys and girls. These are the measurements that tell us if we are successful or not. There are no other measurements that provoke interest from anyone in the system because what makes them happy is the amount of participation, whether it is gender balanced or if it is ethnically balanced and of course the number of people. So in this way it is measurable but it is not even measurable in terms of non-formal education because non-formal education is about something else. So even if youth work is a combination of non-formal and informal learning, there is no recognition of the informal learning aspect of Respondent it, just the non-formal one. But I would say there is not enough recognition of non-formal aspects because nobody would say there is anything being learned but it is just about meeting and involving young people to do something so they do not have free time which they can use for being deviant in the society. So it starts in that part. That is the first pre-condition for youth work. You do it so you can prevent young people from doing bad things to other people in the society. Based on this there is still the perception that young people are a problem and that once they get older, they get married, they start a family, they start having a job, and then they stop being a problem. So that is basic way of seeing how the situation is. So you have these preconditions, and once you grow up you are not any ones problem anymore. Has the history of youth work in Kumanovo thought the youth Interviewer workers in Kumanovo anything? Have they learned from history? For example the question of ethnic tension? What history teaches us on reoccurring questions is that they tend to reoccur. The thing is if we speak about social change, especially in a town like this of 100,000 people, it is not really possible to say Respondent in 20 years you will have managed to do something with a programme that only runs for 4 years. It is about the effects of youth work but also about the setting up of 81 | P a g e

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the system of youth work. You need to have a system that runs all the time so that you can evaluate and change it. The problem is that the reoccurring issue in Kumanovo is that there is no perception that this is a system. It is only seen as a project that somebody does because they are paid internationally to do it. So it is evaluate anything and see if we are doing anything, should we change something because the people that work here this year are not the people that worked here five years ago, so we cannot see that they are developed professionally as youth workers or whether the methods of work change or not. In this way it is very sad because on one side you have what is generally seen as formal education like schools which we evaluate constantly, which we check constantly, which we are tracking the progress. On the other side, youth work is also expected to work with young people but there is not even a basic way of evaluating that we are actually doing something good or bad in the society. Basically what people just need in the end is numbers and saying ok we managed to keep these people out of doing bad stuff to the city. Ok, that is it. Thank you for the interview.

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When do you think the concept of youth work was first used in Kumanovo and from what day can we speak of the government speaking of youth work? In my personal opinion about the youth work in Macedonia, it started in the time of Yugoslavia. In this time the people have mastered to do youth work and it was covered by the government. Typically in Macedonia probably from their independence it started in late 1999/2000. In general, youth work is considered to be a third section intervention, a voluntary intervention. Is youth work generally voluntary in Kumanovo or is there a form of youth work in formal education like school? When I first think about the youth work, generally the first type it was not in schools. It was NGOs from abroad that came to Macedonia that started to introduce first of all NGOs and then these NGOs developed the youth work. What was the influential theory that underpinned youth work in Kumanovo and has it changed from when it started? So what was the reason for youth work beginning in Kumanovo and has it changed from what it was? Generally in Kumanovo the youth work started to be developed in 2000. It was only one humanitarian NGO that gave roots to the making the youth working. It does not mean that you make the youth work, you get them together in a youth centre. So the meaning of youth work is different all the time. Everybody has a different opinion of what youth work is. And afterwards in Kumanovo when this youth centre closed, there was a big break, there was no youth work. And in Kumanovo the first young people who started working in this field was the Centre for Intercultural Dialogue which has spared the youth work in my town. For some people, youth work can be seen as an emancipation of young people or control of young people. Unfortunately, youth work seems a lot of the time to empower only powerful young people and to become a control mechanism for vulnerable young people. Is this the case in Kumanovo? Has youth work empowered young people from vulnerable backgrounds or has it only been well-off educated young people that take part? You cannot say that only the well-educated youngsters come and participate in youth work because it is really different in my town.

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Because the people who are not well-educated they have a fear to express themselves and they have a fear to come to such an organisation and to do something and to learn something about themselves. And the other well-educated, they are also afraid to come but they are inspired by their friends who have come to this kind of organisation, so they start to participate but it is a really low number of youngsters who are participating in youth work. Or they come for a small period and then leave. Did youth work ever exist with young people from more vulnerable backgrounds? Yes it exists but not in a long term. Ok and is it done on an individual basis or by group basis? All the time by group Some youth workers and policy makers say that real youth work is voluntary work. Ideally there are no professionals involved. Are there people considered professional youth workers in Kumanovo and if so, when did they enter the youth work scene and why did they enter the scene? It depends on which period you are asking me for. If you are asking me now, everybody wants to be in a professional level but in the past it was not on a professional level. In the past, nobody knew what is youth work, what you do in youth work, what is a youth organisation, they do not know nothing about youths. So now it is fashionable to be in youth work because it is under the government and the agency for sport have started to cover some work. So now it is in a professional. NOTE: The agency for youth and sport is an independent agency in the Macedonian government, responsible for youth services in Macedonia. The voluntary participation of young people is a key dimension of youth work. Are there examples of compulsory youth work? Are there examples of young people being forced to take part in youth work? As much as I know, the answer is no. Because everybody decides on their own if they want to do something or not. I have said before there is a very small number of people who are working here. It is the same circle of young people who work here. What is youth work in Kumanovo now? Youth work usually follows social change such as an ethnic conflict, reconciliation or other issues, though sometimes youth work can be ahead a situation. Youth movements can either be ahead or separate from these movements, so what is youth work in Kumanovo and is it relevant to the situation of the youth in Kumanovo now?

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I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really understand the question, but I will try to answer it. There are a lot of types of youth work in Kumanovo. Youth work is based on making projects and training courses and to be involved. It includes schools, they tried to put informal education in formal ways but for me it was not really successful. They would also collect as many people as possible to participate in youth work. Kumanovo is very politically oriented and they tried to get these youngsters involved. They tried to gather all these youth workings in one organisation So the movement of youth work is more politically orientated? Yes It can be stated that youth work is, although youth work was never a mass activity in any country, is pretend to represent all young people. So even though youth work is only working with a small amount of young people in most countries, they pretend to represent all young people. Does youth work in Kumanovo reinforce a division between well-organised, well-educated, well-behaved participative young people and those who are unorganised, margined minorities or under-privileged or young people in poverty? Does the youth work in Kumanovo help to break that line or reinforce that line? I think in Kumanovo it is to break that line because in Kumanovo I have never, never experienced a limit with young people that are less educated or disabled. What was the first youth work research in Kumanovo? What questions did they first ask to introduce youth work in Kumanovo? When the first youth centre started, this was where they carried out the research. It was the Babylon Youth Centre. NOTE: Babylon was funded by the World Bank What has been the role of this research in Kumanovo? Has it let to youth work policy today and the youth work strategy in Kumanovo or is policy based more on what politics wants or something else? No, in Kumanovo it is not ruled by politics. I think it is more based on not getting involved with politics but based on the real youth policy. A lot of the times, youth work research tells us about the characteristics of unorganised, under-privileged young people how youth work practice itself actually happens. So when we do youth work research it seems to just tell us more about vulnerable young people or about the situation of young people than the actual methods of youth work in place. In most countries this seems to be the case. Is this the case in Kumanovo? Has youth work research just influenced how youth work practice is done or the methods of

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youth work? Has youth work research influenced the methods of youth work practice? So when they researched young people, has it influenced the methods that are used in youth work in Kumanovo? Yes, probably. Do you think youth work in Kumanovo has either all the time or sometimes counterproductive effects? Do you think youth work can have bad effects? Yes, there are always contra effects in what you work. In Kumanovo there are cases that the youth work just puts you a step back in what you want to do. In Kumanovo, is youth work seen as non-formal education and is it seen as measurable? Can you measure the impact of youth work in Kumanovo? Yes, in Kumanovo you can say that youth work is non-formal education because the people who are working in this are really based on volunteers. It is really non-formal because there are no boundaries. For me personally, you can measure it because you can see more effects from non-formal education than from formal education. Me, I have learned more from non-formal education than from formal and it is a very big difference Has the history of youth work in Kumanovo thought the youth workers in Kumanovo anything? Have they learned from history? For example the question of ethnic tension? This question is continuing to repeat but they are never answered. It is hard to explain these things in Kumanovo. Especially in youth work, when you start something, you always have someone who tells you that it is non-formal and that you are not right. It is kind of a circle. You learn how you should not do something, but you still continue anyway. Ok, that is it. Thank you for the interview.

Interview 3 Magdalena Manevska (Age 19) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Coordinator of Multi Kulti Youth Radio 09.09.2013 When do you think the concept of youth work was first used in Interviewer

Kumanovo and from what day can we speak of the government speaking of youth work? I am very young in youth work too so I was first included in the concept of youth work 7 years ago and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when I first heard about youth work, but then I think that in Macedonia, starting from

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tion, a voluntary intervention. Is youth work generally voluntary in Kumanovo or is there a form of youth work in formal education like school? Was the government ever involved? When I was in high school there were tries to introduce youth work in formal schools, to use non-formal education in the formal classes. I know that there are teachers who are trying to use non-

Respondent formal methods in schools but there is no law that puts these two things together. There are teachers but they are doing it on their own because they think it is a nice way to present their topic to students. Interviewer

What was the influential theory that underpinned youth work in Kumanovo? What methods are being used? We use non-formal education in order to present a topic. It is like you have a topic that you need to educate people on and then you

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in a place and then discuss something with them there. We use our methods there on the spot but not necessarily to go and talk to young people outside the youth centre. For some people, youth work can be seen as an emancipation of young people or control of young people. Unfortunately, youth work seems a lot of the time to empower only powerful young people Interviewer

and to become a control mechanism for vulnerable young people. Is this the case in Kumanovo? Has youth work empowered young people from vulnerable backgrounds or has it only been well-off educated young people that take part? Has it always been like that or is the situation changing? Of course there are tries to change the situation and I think when we firstly started on local level to do this youth work with high school students mostly, the first round of people who actually took part in the whole concept of youth work and who were exposed to us working with them and implementing youth work on them were exactly that privileged youth which already had access to everything and they could apply online for the projects and then everybody could apply online. Now we realise that the group we want to access are kind of excluded from the society and the people with whom we really need to work. The first group was already

Respondent familiar with the topic, but the excluded ones are the ones who we need to talk to about the topics. So what I personally have done for my workshops, was that I never used online applications, but I went to the schools that are out of town. We also made open days out of town, we have this youth centre in a village next to Kumanovo where we make open days and present the concept of youth work to these people out of town too. We have also made 2 open days in villages out of Kumanovo where we presented what an NGO is and how they are part of a workshop or what youth work is and how they can have some ad88 | P a g e

vantages from it, how to get included in these activities. Not only for my organisation but we also invited other organisations that we had contact from Kumanovo. We went there, put some stands up and young people were coming and asking what we were doing, so we had a change to explain to them. But these are only tries. I still think that most of the people who are part of what we are doing here are the group that lives in town and everybody has access to everything. Some youth workers and policy makers say that real youth work is voluntary work. Ideally there are no professionals involved. Are Interviewer

there people considered professional youth workers in Kumanovo and if so, when did they enter the youth work scene and why did they enter the scene? I do not really understand what professional youth worker means because we do not really have a school for youth workers. That is the title that someone should have that is a youth worker and if it was about professional youth workers then I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know that any of the youth workers that I know are professional youth workers. What you need to do in order to become a professional one? Be-

Respondent cause if you implement youth work and you develop yourself skills to work with young people, you like that and you know what you want to do with them then that makes you a youth worker. But this concept of professional youth workers I was first introduced when I first came to CID because there were people declaring themselves as youth workers but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what makes them more professional than other people that work with youths. The voluntary participation of young people is a key dimension of Interviewer

youth work. Are there examples of compulsory youth work? Are there examples of young people being forced to take part in youth work?

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I do not think so. The non-formal education concept at some point was forcefully implemented to schools, like two years ago there

was a class at school were every teacher had to implement nonformal education but that is not youth work. But trying to introduce new stuff to schools was a government project I think, but still not everyone was implementing it. What is youth work in Kumanovo now? Youth work usually follows social change such as an ethnic conflict, reconciliation or other isInterviewer

sues, though sometimes youth work can be ahead a situation. Youth movements can either be ahead or separate from these movements, so what is youth work in Kumanovo and has it evolved for the right reasons? Where I am at the moment it has started because of ethnic issues and we are about working with young people who have the will to work together, no matter what. This concept started to be implemented by people from CID who wanted to start implementing youth work here and that is how I think it firstly started. But then on the other hand it is not only CID that is doing youth work in Kumanovo. There is this other organisation that is from first or second year university students and they are playing video projections each Thursday in different cafes on social issues. So they play a movie and then they start a discussion afterwards. They are

Respondent

playing the movie to anyone that is there at the moment. So if you want to take part, you can and it is for everyone. So for me that is also a type of youth work that is being implemented here. Also, there are climbing clubs or cycling clubs, there are people who also discuss things there. For example there is a sports club but they have sessions every Friday where they go out together or just discuss things for young people. They do not discuss anything related to social stuff but they discuss youth health issues. I was invited a couple of times to their sessions like workshops connecting to issues such as healthy food and stuff like this. It is the official volleyball club in Kumanovo. The last time I heard about this was a couple of months ago, but I think they are still there.

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It can be stated that youth work is, although youth work was never a mass activity in any country, is pretend to represent all young people. So even though youth work is only working with a small amount of young people in most countries, they pretend to repreInterviewer

sent all young people. Does youth work in Kumanovo reinforce a division between well-organised, well-educated, well-behaved participative young people and those who are unorganised, margined minorities or under-privileged or young people in poverty? Does the youth work in Kumanovo help to break that line or reinforce that line? Every time I try to make a group and implement any kind of youth work on any issue with them, I try to make it as much representative as I can. So I try to put different ethnicities in, people from different living places, studying in different schools, but it can be difficult to find people from all those different classes. I am not making excuses, but sometimes you cannot do it in another way. It can divide these two groups and I think at some points it was made

Respondent but then when we see people from different backgrounds than the usual ones, we are trying to give them more opportunities and to work more with them because you can see that it is not an experienced person in that field and you are trying to give him or her more chances so they can be more included in the stuff afterwards. So it is right that we come to the first group more easily but then if manage to have people from the excluded groups in the group, we work more with them and encourage them more. What was the first youth work research in Kumanovo? How did Interviewer

they come up with the idea of what they first did and has it changed?

Respondent Sorry, I do not know. Interviewer

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What has been the role of this research in Kumanovo? Has it let to youth work policy today and the youth work strategy in Kumanovo

or is policy based more on what politics wants or something else? We have a youth policy in Kumanovo that is still not implemented and I know that there were people from the youth centre who were included in the making of the policy, so they had already research Respondent and examples from current work that they put in the local youth strategy which was the base for the policy afterwards. But I was not included in the whole process at all, so I am not that much into it. A lot of the times, youth work research tells us about the young people rather than give us information on how we practice youth Interviewer

work. It gives us a profile of young people but does not tell us how we work with them. Because of this, do you think youth work in Kumanovo has counterproductive effects? Do you think youth work can have bad effects? There were cases were youth work has had negative effects because people did not understand what youth work was. We were implementing activities but we did not explain to people why we are doing that or we left too much space for people to wonder and to give their opinions on what we are trying to do. They were pop-

Respondent

ping up with different ideas which were not exactly matching with the ideas that we had but we did not do anything to stop them. There were stories being made up what we were doing in the city and we did not stop it, so afterwards it became a problem and there were people who did not want to come to the youth centre. There was a need to solve the issue and we worked again with most people because they were misunderstanding first. In Kumanovo, is youth work seen as non-formal education and is it

Interviewer

seen as measurable? Can you measure the impact of youth work in Kumanovo?

Respondent

For me not. People still do not know what youth work is because they come to workshops, they think that non-formal education is

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the thing that puts them together which is something different, so youth work is something different which tells them to think of things but only in this environment. But then there are still not enough people who do youth work in the city so people cannot get familiar with that idea. I do youth work with the youth club, the radio club, so we are not doing workshops at all but it is a totally different concept but it is still measurable. You talk to people and work on ideas and projects together, they go to other people and talk by themselves. We also work in the intercultural concept and how people interact with their friends from other ethnicities and things like that but in a totally different way than the workshops. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I like it more. Has the history of youth work in Kumanovo thought the youth Interviewer

workers in Kumanovo anything? Have they learned from history? For example the question of ethnic tension? I think people before didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what to do with themselves. They were just waiting to finish school and then go and find work. Youth work helped a lot in that field, it encouraged young people to develop their skills and to work on themselves more, to improve their

Respondent own education, to grab every opportunity where to learn from and to ask for their education, not to wait for someone to give it to them. That is what youth work changed the most. Now there are people calling us and asking for trainings and opportunities but that was not the case before. Interviewer

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Ok, that is it. Thank you for the interview.

Interview 4 Dragana Jovanovska - Volunteer for the Centre for Intercultural Dialogue 04.12.2013 When do you think the concept of youth work was first used in Interviewer

Kumanovo and from what day can we speak of the government speaking of youth work? I am not quite sure, I know when I first started working in the youth

Respondent centre which was 10 or 12 years ago. The centre was called Triagolnik. In general, youth work is considered to be a third section intervenInterviewer

tion, a voluntary intervention. Is youth work generally voluntary in Kumanovo or is there a form of youth work in formal education like school? Was the government ever involved?

Respondent As far as I know, no. What was the influential theory that underpinned youth work in Interviewer

Kumanovo? Is it based on reconciliation or is it just fun stuff for young people? As far as I am concerned, it is both because some people are driven by the fact that they want to make something like look for

Respondent

exchange in cultural dialogue and making peace between different nationalities, but then there are different people like people that like more fun stuff and basically we are trying to get them in with the fun stuff and then make them think about the bigger picture. Youth work in some countries works well with well-educated, organised, non-vulnerable people with money and the family together, but it does not really seem to work with the vulnerable

Interviewer

and the under-privileged and it never seems to really do anything great for them. It emancipates those from well-organised backgrounds like from the gymnasia but for those from the agricultural school it does not seem to do much for them. Has youth work in

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Kumanovo ever helped those from the very bottom? As far as I know, people and organisations are always trying to reach these people. It is only that always when you associate with an organisation like ours, you associate with travel and that is usuRespondent ally common for people with more money and a higher position in the society. When you do things like this for many years, you reach people to make them think they have opportunities and tries, and there are people willing to join even from vulnerable backgrounds. Some youth workers and policy makers say that real youth work is voluntary work. Ideally there are no professionals involved. Are Interviewer

there people considered professional youth workers in Kumanovo and if so, when did they enter the youth work scene and why did they enter the scene?

Respondent I have no idea, sorry. The voluntary participation of young people is a key dimension of Interviewer

youth work. Are there examples of compulsory youth work? Are there examples of young people being forced to take part in youth work? No. According to me, when a teacher advises you to do something,

Respondent it is compulsory, so unofficially it is compulsory. If a teacher tells you to do this to get this, people feel obliged. Interviewer

What is youth work in Kumanovo now? Are there any projects in Kumanovo? I know that schools are interested in doing something and they are

Respondent

interested in the Multi Kulti Youth Centre. But I have not heard of any other organisation here that does the type of youth work that CID and Multi Kulti do. It can be stated that youth work is, although youth work was never

Interviewer

a mass activity in any country, is pretend to represent all young people. So even though youth work is only working with a small

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amount of young people in most countries, they pretend to represent all young people. Does youth work in Kumanovo reinforce a division between well-organised, well-educated, well-behaved participative young people and those who are unorganised, margined minorities or under-privileged or young people in poverty? Does the youth work in Kumanovo help to break that line or reinforce that line? I do not think so because organisations in youth work give the Respondent

chance for everyone to join. It is harder to reach these underprivileged people, but once you reach them they have the same opportunities as people from higher backgrounds. What was the first youth work research in Kumanovo? How did

Interviewer

they come up with the idea of what they first did and has it changed? I presume it was something involving schools and young children but I have not done the research on what they did. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it

Respondent changed because mostly the idea is to reach children and kids from high schools. It is still about young people and people that want to join. So I think that the basic idea has not changed. What has been the role of this research in Kumanovo? Has it let to Interviewer

youth work policy today and the youth work strategy in Kumanovo or is policy based more on what politics wants or something else? At the moment they (the government) are doing some research in

Respondent

order to change policies in different places in order to reach people living in those areas. One policy has been made and they are working on it to fix it and make it better. A lot of the times, youth work research tells us about the young people rather than give us information on how we practice youth

Interviewer

work. It gives us a profile of young people but does not tell us how we work with them. Because of this, do you think youth work in Kumanovo has counterproductive effects? Do you think youth work

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can have bad effects? I am sure it has. In any youth work organisation, there are people Respondent

who think they know how to work with young people or people in general but not everyone can do that job. So yes as soon as people like that arise, I think it is more counterproductive. In Kumanovo, is youth work seen as non-formal education and is it

Interviewer

seen as measurable? Can you measure the impact of youth work in Kumanovo?

Respondent I have no idea, sorry. Has the history of youth work in Kumanovo thought the youth Interviewer

workers in Kumanovo anything? Have they learned from history? For example the question of ethnic tension? It has answered some questions from history but I think once they

Respondent

get to the crucial questions and there are tensions, they try to escape it and avoid it. There may have arisen some questions that are trying to be forgotten.

Interviewer

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Ok, that is it. Thank you for the interview.

Appendix G Workshop Results â&#x20AC;&#x201C; See end of document.

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Appendix H Results of the Questionnaires â&#x20AC;&#x201C; See end of document.

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Appendix I Additional Project Information Street Based Youth Work Report The majority of young people engaged were from the largest ethnic minority and a significant number of more male young people were engaged than female. The results show interaction with a varied group of young people which is also supported in the results for the age distribution of those engaged:

Fig.4. Age distribution of the young people engaged during street based youth work sessions (Carter, 2012).

From this pie chart, Carter (2012) states â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the main hypothesis that can be taken away from these results is that the majority of young people within the main squares on Thursdays around 19:00 to 21:00 are aged between 15 - 18. This shows the main age range of the young people encountered. The results therefore are still interesting and worth review as they show a direct insight into the needs of a significant sample group of young people. The review at the end of the report highlights a number of these needs stating: -

Many of the male Roma population also expressed a want for more friends from different ethnicities.

Road safety of young people is a notable problem in Kumanovo.

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Many young people proposed to have more inter-ethnical events where people hang out and have fun.

Huge interest expressed in international youth exchanges, here and abroad.

Young people have shown a need for support in education and sport.

Many young people also expressed a desire for someone to share their problems and issues with privately within the city. (Carter, 2012)

These are just a few of the highlighted needs and statements by young people during those streetbased youth work sessions.

Open Youth Centre Report The data from the report is purely statistical and does not provide clear perceptions of individual or group needs. However, the statistics do present interesting facts such as the age range of those that attended which was from five to fifteen years with the average age being 10.73 years (Carter, 2014). The vast majority (95%) of those young people who attended were ethnically Albanian (Carter, 2014), this is most likely due to a majority Albanian population living in the local area of the youth centre. More female young people (55%) attended than male, and the only ethnic Roma young people to attend were male (Carter, 2014). The open youth centre seemed popular with the group sizes attending being from as small as four young people in the beginnning to 76 at the end of the period, with the average group size being 20.77 (Carter, 2014). The following graph shows the group sizes attending the open youth centre.

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Fig.5. Timeline graph showing attendance size for Tode Mendol open youth centre during the open months of 2012 (Carter, 2014). What happened during the open hours of the open youth centre is documented through pictures and videos on social media. The international volunteer in charge of the open youth centre released photos from the project

and it can be seen from these that a lot of the activities were artisitic and there was a youth led ‘free hugs’ day/project. For example Fig.6. Pictures released from international volunteer’s files: from left to right art session making flowers from paper, free hugs project and ‘life size self-portrait’ session. Copyright CID 2012. As stated in the research chapter, the international volunteer also reported that a choice of informal sports, film-related, social and relaxation activities were made available during this time, but participation was not officially 102 | P a g e

recorded due to

their unplanned and ad hoc nature. The choice was always with the young people who attended, to take account of their needs and wishes.

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PORTFOLIO NATIONAL YOUTH COUNCIL – MACEDONIA The National Youth Council of Macedonia [NYCM] is a youth umbrella organization - association of associations and foundations in the Republic of Macedonia. NYCM is established on June 30 th 2013 by 55 founding organizations. NYCM is a non-governmental, non-partisan and non-profit organization. MEMBERS NYCM is the nation-wide umbrella organization representing organized youth in Macedonia. NYCM gathers 55 organizations: 22 youth organizations, 17 organizations for youth, 2 national youth union organizations, 9 youth wings of political parties and 5 associate member organizations united to promote and advocate for youth rights in Macedonia. The membership of the NYCM brings together a diversity of organizations coming from national and regional level, rural and urban areas, student organizations, branches of international organizations and other types of associations. In the process of accomplishing its goals, NYCM represents the interests of the young people in the Republic of Macedonia regardless of their socio-economic position, sex, race, ethnic and cultural background, political and religious beliefs, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other form of distinction. MISSION AND GOALS The mission of the NYCM is to represent the interests and needs of young people as a link to all the relevant stakeholders, as well as to ensure the inclusion and active involvement of young people in the decision making process on all levels. NYCM has the following goals: 1. Strengthening the role of the NYCM as a representative body of young people and youth organizations; 2. Stimulating the processes of adequate policy creation enabling the social and personal development of young people; 3. Advocacy and acting on behalf of the interests of young people and youth organizations by representing their interests before the relevant institutions; 4. Uniting and developing the capacities of the youth sector through strengthening and promoting the role of youth organisations; 5. Promoting informal education and encouraging the creation of youth support systems on the local and national levels; 6. Improving the position of young people in society through: Promotion and activities aimed at strengthening youth involvement in the decision making processes, Promotion of youth activism, youth information and active citizenship among young people; 7. Improving youth equality and treatment, as well as tolerance and democracy in and among young people. ACTIVITIES NCYM aims to accomplish its goals through: development of policies, expert opinions and educational materials in the area of youth policy and all other areas related to and important for young people; Organising campaigns and raising public awareness activities in areas related to and important for young people; Working on building the capacities of its members; Organising professional meetings, counselling, seminars and other forms of education in the areas of youth policy and other public policies; Publishing publications and other educational materials on topics related to youth policies and other public policies of importance for young people. PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS Secretariat for European Affairs in Macedonia, European Youth Forum, USAID – Macedonia, Foundation Open Society – Macedonia, Krovna organizacija mladih Srbije (KOMS), Mreza mladih Hrvatshe (MMH), National Youth Council of Slovenia, Y-Peer

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Annual Report Initiative for Acknowledgement and Professionalization of Youth Work September 2012 - July 2013

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Outline The Center for Intercultural Dialogue (CID) in cooperation with the National Democratic Institute (NDI) during the period between September 2012 and June 2013 was working on the legislative initiative for acknowledgement and professionalization of youth work. The goals of this initiative are: •

Defining the legal process for establishing youth work systems in Macedonia

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Discovering opportunities for synergies in youth work through networking of existing practices in the field of professional groups and associations

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Developing professional standards and guidelines that are intended to define youth work at a state level and formulate a support system for the youth

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Raising the awareness for the need of regulated legal system that will support the young people through youth work

What is youth work? Youth work is a planned program of educational character, formed to provide support to the young people in the process of gaining independence, during which the youth worker helps the personal and social development of the young people so that they can become active participants in the decisionmaking process. The idea of youth work is to create safe environment and opportunities for active participation of the youth on a voluntary basis in the acquisition of skills, abilities and knowledge. It is important to note that the initiative believes that the support system for the youth denotes a process of permanent dialogue about creating sustainable programs for the youth with adequate financial, administrative and other structural support to the youth and their organizations. The youth support system operates through: -

Local youth centers with professional support in the area of youth work

Structured dialogue between the institutions and the youth through local youth councils and other systems for support of youth participation

Financial support of the youth organizations and their innovative projects

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The context in which the youth work takes place The idea for the project and the cooperation is based on the fact that the youth worker has not been formally recognized as a proffesion. This is not the case in some European countries, where the youth worker has been acclaimed as a profession for many years. The new emerged social changes made apparent the need for devoting more attention to the formal recognition of the profession of youth worker. The acknowledgement would be one of the indicators of systematic and adequate care for the youth, and it would also introduce quality in the youth work through informal education. Many activists in the field of youth work and the related fields that have experience from working with young people recommend recognition of youth work as a profession, as a complementary one to other professions that deal with youth issues, because the youth work has its own formal academic education (through various types of undergraduate studies), its own methodology, its own philosophy, purpose, quality and professional ethics. But this task is quite complex because it is faced with several problems, mainly because for years there was no systematic approach to working with youth. The issue of recognition of youth work can be seen from the following aspects: 1.

The need and the role of youth work in a professional network of care for the youth

Professionalisation of youth work and quality assurance

Available education for youth workers

Affiliation / Association of the activists of youth work

The first step towards establishing the profession of youth worker emphasizes the need to clearly define the role of the youth work through a multi-sectoral approach to the institutions dealing/working with young people. This exact approach was established last year.

ACTION PLAN PREPARATION and TRAININGS September-‐January Inside preparation in the Association (CID), formation of working team. September-‐January Attending trainings organized by the National Democratic Institute. MAPPING (of organizations and institutions working in the field of the youth work) January Creation of electronic database February Visiting organizations and institutions and organizing bilateral meetings (Skopje, Tetovo, Strumica, Bitola, Ohrid, Veles, Kavadarci)

ANALYSIS (Collecting information and preparation of summary analysis of the effects of youth work)

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February – March

Hiring an external consultant for developing a summary analysis

March Preparation of documents by the CID team April Publication of the summary analysis NETWORKING (Networking meetings) March-‐April Organizing meetings in Kumanovo, Skopje, Tetovo, Strumica, Bitola, Ohrid, Veles, Kavadarci March-‐April Publication of findings and reports after each meeting NATIONAL ASSOCIATION May Two-day meeting for establishing a national association of youth workers YOUTH WORK FAIR Presentation of the youth organizations and their work with young June people in front of institutions and in front of each other Working groups with representatives from the institutions DOCUMENTATION June Creating a framework for the definition of youth work, accreditation of youth workers and youth work programs, code of ethics PROMOTION Prior to the meetings Posters for networking meetings, promotional flyers and stickers April Facebook campaign, interactive website March, April, May Guest appearance in informative and contact TV shows on the national televisions

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PREPARATION and TRAININGS

Inside preparation in the Association (CID), forming a working team Before implementing the activities for this initiative, CID conducted a series of inside preparations (verification of the organizations capacities, knowledge and skills of the human resources, forming a team) to successfully implement the initiative. At the beginning of the process everyone in the association was introduced with the process and activities that were planned to occur in the future. The team consisted of: -‐ Ivana Davidovska -‐ Stefan Manevski -‐ Milosh Ristovski After its formation, the final team in charge of the whole initiative developed a detailed action plan according to which the activities will be realized and the started the implementation. Attending trainings organized by the National Democratic Institute The team that worked and still works on the initiative regularly attended the trainings that were conducted by NDI , which helped in capacity building. Besides the trainings from NDI, the team also took part in international trainings that built their knowledge, skills and attitudes and helped in the implementation of the initiative.

MAPPING (of organizations and institutions working in the field of youth work) Creation of electronic database Prior to the meeting with the other organizations involved in youth work, CID made a short research in order to create a list of organizations that should be contacted and consulted in the process. Apart from that list, CID had in mind some institutions that would have a major role in the process and also some previous processes that could help them gain useful information. After completing the short research, CID began contacting the organizations with which they had previously cooperated in order to get opinions and ideas to improve this process. Visiting organizations and institutions and organizing bilateral meetings The Center for Intercultural Dialogue conducted meetings in 8 cities across the country (Skopje, Tetovo, Strumica, Bitola, Ohrid, Veles, Kavadarci) with partner associations with which they previously collaborated to present the idea for this initiative and get their opinion on further improvements. The associations shared their contact lists of the regions in which they work, which has increased the number of organizations that will be informed in the future. The idea was for these organizations visited during the first meetings to serve as contact points in their regions and to communicate information to other organizations that work with young people until the Youth Work Union is established. After the primary meetings, these organizations worked with the CID in organization of regional networking meetings.

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ANALYSIS (Gathering information and preparation of summary analysis of the effects of youth work) Hiring an external consultant for developing a summary analysis In order to perform an in-depth analysis which will be to the benefit of the initiative and the future work of the Association, CID invited Nick Paddison - expert on youth work with a lot of experience as a trainer and researcher. Due to his previous experience Nick was familiar with the situation in Macedonia and the region. His research and experience have helped a lot in the implementation of this initiative. The final handbook is still in the process of translation and it should be published in near future. Preparation of documents by CID team Тhe team of trainers and facilitators in CID started preparing handbooks, documents, published research that in their opinion were adequate for the initiative and for the work of the Youth Workers Union. Their library contains hard-copy materials and electronic documents as well. Publication of the summary analysis As we metioned before, due to the translation and the final proof-reading of the handbook (the summary analysis) it is due to be published in the following period. NETWORKING (Networking meetings) Organizing meetings in Kumanovo, Skopje, Tetovo, Strumica, Bitola, Ohrid, Veles, Kumanovo After the primary meetings, CID in collaboration with partner organizations organized 8 meetings in eight cities in Macedonia, that were used to present the idea for the initiative and its implementation plan in front of a number of associations and institutions that are involved in youth work. These meetings were open to everyone interested and they were very important for the whole process. All interested organizations were invited to apply in order to participate in the meeting for establishment of the Youth Work Union, and the Youth Work Fair. In addition to this paper please find attached the minutes of all the held meetings. Publication of findings and reports after each meeting After each meeting, minutes and information of the meeting were sent to each participant, the National Democratic Institute, as well as to the media. The networking meetings were covered by the local media. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION The meeting for establishment of the National Association of Youth Workers was held from 26th - 28th April at Hotel “Srna” in Mavrovo. This event brought together 23 youth workers and encouraged them to discuss the purposes and reasons for forming a platform to work on the definition, professionalization and acknowledgement of youth work.

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The aim of the two-day meeting was to enable the creation of an association that would strive towards improvement of the quality of youth work, the capacity of individuals and organizations that carry out the youth work and advocacy for systematic solutions for the youth. The program consisted of a total of 8 sessions (each of 90-120 min), which primarily included discussion

and sharing among participants. Since the event was primarily envisaged as a meeting of youth workers, rather than a training or a seminar, theoretical introduction was limited mostly to sharing personal experiences of the participants. The formation of a National Association of Youth Workers needs to flow gradually in order to finalize the process inclusively and transparently (this would increase legitimacy). However it is important to note that this association must unite youth work providers (as the most concerned parties for its recognition and quality management) and the adoption of standards should be accessed individually through selection of the most experienced individuals. -‐ Quality management, definition and realization of youth work activities must become professional and clearly directed toward quality management and transparency of work. All organizations are concordant that enormous work capacity for youth work has been built in the Republic of Macedonia and it needs to be acknowledged by the system. -‐ Principally, there is a huge interest for joint definition and implementation of activities for acknowledgement of youth work by every organization. It is primarily based on the need of safety (administrative, financial and technical) required for innovation and development of the proffesion. YOUTH WORK FAIR The Youth Work Fair was held on 14th and 15th of June, at the EU Info Center and the Agency of Youth and Sport. The fair aimed to raise the awareness of the need for professionalism and acknowledgement of youth work and make a link between the youth work providers and the institutions.

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The fair was attended by arround 50 youth workers, representatives of institutions and foundations that primarily discussed the guidelines for professionalization and standardization of youth work. This report contains the results and products of the Youth Work Fair, as well as the events associated with it. The program consisted of panel discussions, fair and working groups. The first part was set up as an interactive panel discussion, in order to present the advances of the sector and the initiative, and also the formation of a Union for youth work. During the fair the present organizations were able to promote their youth work, while within the working groups they developed recommendations on standards and criteria in youth work. The implementation of this fair started a significant process of networking between the providers of youth work and the institutions that should acknowledge and regulate the youth work in order to achieve improvement of the quality and efficiency of the youth programs.

An important aspect is the establishment of the Youth Work Union, whose primary goal will be to focus on uniting the youth work providers (as most concerned parties for its recognition and quality management) and adoption of standards. It will have an individualistic approach, through selection of the most experienced individuals. The activity of the established working groups in the next period is crucial in order to create the content for the future work of the Union. The involvement of the institutions and the foundations in these working groups is also important in order to establish dialogue and to motivate active sharing of information. Through dialogue with the institutions further steps towards the recognition of youth work and improvement of its quality will be taken.

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These events started an adequate process of acknowledgment of the youth work following good practices observed at European level. First of all, the youth work must be acknowledged on 4 different but equally important levels: -‐

Level of legislation: dialogue with the institutions for the legislative framework has been started and an open process for defining legislative solutions and their promotion into legislative initiative has been established

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Level of self-acknowledgment: the process of acknowledgement among the youth workers, networking and sharing of experiences have begun, in order to establish professional standards for the profession of youth worker and their proper implementation

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Level of quality recognition: m a k i n g room for dialogue aimed at developing a framework for minimum competences required for a young person to become a youth worker, as well as the minimum conditions for a provider of youth work to have recognized excellence in operations

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Level of social acknowledgment: the process for broader social visibility of the activities and impact of the youth work and dialogue with various institutional and civil partners have begun

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Creation of a framework for the definition of the youth work, accreditation of youth workers and youth work programs, code of ethics. During the Youth Work Fair, four working groups began working on four different topics (Level of legislation, Level of self-acknowledgment, Level of quality recognition, Level of social acknowledgment). The working groups consisted of SMR members and representatives of other institutions and foundations. The working groups worked on action plans that will continue the work in the future. All of the above topics were discussed and were part of the action plans of the working groups. The action plans of the working groups are attached to this document. PROMOTION

Posters for networking meetings / Promotional flyers and stickers During the process posters of other CID activities were used, aimed to promote youth work. Posters, promotional materials (flyers and stickers) for the Youth Work Union and the Law on youth work will remain to be one of the important elements, but in order to be successfully used, the Union should first be established and the framework for legislative recognition of youth work should be created. Part of the posters and flyers will be designed and distributed when the working groups form a draft-legal solution for youth work in order for it to be discusses among the providers of youth work. CHALENGES The biggest challenges in the process of acknowledgemt of youth work were directly addressed in the first year of the process. These are:

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- Establishment of an open partnership with all major providers of youth work in Macedonia

Due to the large number of organizations that work with the youth in different programs, the risk that the initiative will not be accepted from organizations has increased, specifically for personal strategies and high competitiveness in the sector. So a number of bilateral meetings with organizations were organized, which ensured that in the end all major and more active providers of programs and processes of youth work will be included. Most organizations have welcomed the initiative and joined actively. However most of the organizations do not share similar ideas of what youth work is, that at a later stage can make room for interesting dialogue and a potential challenge for which overcoming strategies can be consciously built. - Establishing dialogue with relevant institutions which should acknowledge and regulate youth work The initiative was welcomed by the Agency of Youth and Sport, which signed a memorandum of cooperation with the CID. In general there was a need to establish an open dialogue with the other institutions, and the process still represents an open challenge to some of them. Until now a dialogue is established with the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, the Center for Adult Education and the Bureau for Development of Education. An important factor in the initiative is the Ministry of Education with which we are still in the process of establishing an effective dialogue. The institutions are invited to participate in the process of defining the legal solutions for the Law on youth work in order for it to be the result of an open and extensive process of consultation and consensus building. - Reduction of rivalry and stimulating the cooperation between initiatives that move in a similar direction The main rival in the process appeared to be an organization that has undergraduate studies for Youth Work at the University of South-East Europe. We held several meetings with this organization in order to explain that the Initiative for Law on Youth Work is complementary to the undergraduate studies. In other words, we wanted to explain that both the processes are mutually-dependent.

The initial hostile attitude towards the initiative is slowly changing especially since the organization made efforts to be one of the major factors in the preparation of the framework for quality of youth work and the process of recognition. CONCLUSION Following the development of the initiative during the first year some unexpected but highly significant and positive developments occured: Creation of an open and very inclusive Youth Work Union whose members are many organizations that are recognized for their high quality work and they cover many different aspects of the operation. This Union comes into play as a partner of institutions in order to ensure that legal decisions will be effectively implemented following the example of many similar initiatives in the region and in Europe. Finally, quality management of youth work in Macedonia will become a reality because of the great commitment of the providors for their programs to be publicly recognized and acknowledged. This will ensure that quality programs for the young people will be acknowledged and publicly available, while substandard processes will be given an opportunity for further development instead of getting

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implemented and create more problems than support. Support from the Agency of Youth and Sport has risen to a higher level than expected and therefore the Agency proposed to develop a separate Law on Youth Work in which AYS could keep a register of programs for youth work. YWU (Youth Work Union) and AYS (Agency of Youth and Sport) should implement the process of recognition and certification of quality providers of youth work together and they should ensure that youth work will be available to every young citizen of the Republic of Macedonia.

Тврдам дека правилно го извршив преводот од македонски на англиски јазик. ПОСТОЈАН СУДСКИ ПРЕВЕДУВАЧ Милена Станковска Решение бр.: 07 – 1285/2 Датум: 9.11.2013

I hereby certify that the present text is a true and accurate translation from Macedonian into English. CERTIFIED COURT TRANSLATOR Milena Stankovska Decision no. 07 – 1285/2 Date: 09.11.2013

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Context of our work

Overview of our main activities in 2013

Networks and representation

CID Mobility Opportunities

Overview of the office

Draft Income Overview for 2013

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Introduction

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INTRODUCTION The Center for Intercultural Dialogue (CID) is civil society organization working to promote intercultural acceptance and active citizenship through capacity building processes, education and youth work. The organization’s work focuses on many aspects which are of interest for young people: from provision of services and information, to research and support for policy-making and networking. Center for Intercultural Dialogue works for society of intercultural dialogue, active citizenship and sustainable development where all people live together with mutual respect. The mission of the Centre for Intercultural Dialogue is to promote and support intercultural understanding and cooperation, youth participation and community development by providing educational youth work and volunteering opportunities.

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Our strategic objectives are:  Promote active citizenship among young people through networking with stakeholders and support in developing mechanisms for active participation  Facilitation and contribution to intercultural dialogue through capacity building for effective partnerships, cooperation and exchange of information  Support the involvement of young people through volunteering, in order to create a culture of active citizenship and citizens initiatives.  Encourage the Solidarity Peace and Human Rights as a culture of living through organized intercultural encounters and processes

Target Groups CID works with young people and citizens from diverse religious, ethnic, national and other beliefs who are at the same time creators and beneficiaries of our activities. CID also works with public administration that works with youth, as well as all stakeholders involved in inter-community dialogue and sustainable community development on local, national and international level.

Focus Area The CID remains actively committed to contribute to the following key issues in educational, cultural and social spheres that will have strong impact on the young people:  Establishment of a local youth support system consisted of youth centers with professional staff and young volunteers, as well as financial and administrative support from the local government to maintain the level of quality of the work done;  Further support for development of an inclusive youth councils on local and national level ensuring active representation of all youth groups, especially youth with fewer opportunities. The CID works to develop the youth councils’ capacity for youth policy making and youth development in general;  Increase of quality professional support in education and training for local, national and international users especially through our pool of trainers and international networks;  Effective participation of youth from Macedonia to international meetings, trainings and education opportunities in order to increase the quality of social programmes, volunteering opportunities, training programmes, democratic decision making, sustainable development and other related topics;  Quality support in inter-community relations as well as establishment, facilitation and monitoring of effective intercultural dialogue on local, national and international level, specially focused on education, cultural, political and social issues;

Networking

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The Center for Intercultural Dialogue is member of 3 international networks and actively contributes on the dialogue and promoting citizenship on European and Global level. CID is member of Service Civil International (SCI), Youth for Exchange and Understanding (YEU), and UNITED against racism.

CONTEXT OF OUR WORK IN 2013 The year 2013 can be described as the year of building national-level coalitions in the youth field. It was an ongoing process of meetings between the youth organizations where all the participants from the different sectors working with youth concluded that we need more space to talk to each other and jointly builds efforts for youth development. In 2013 there was an increased pressure on mainstreaming practices and support for civil society into the legislative and administrative framework of the country. This of course had an impact on the youth and non-formal education area. Several important initiatives were opened that provide platforms for debating what is youth organizing and an organization for young people, which are the quality indicators for youth work and who can be called a “youth worker” in the national context. These issues remain to be answered but the sole fact that many organizations are on board discussing these topics sets the direction for the development of the youth field. When it comes to youth activism and taking initiatives we can conclude that in 2013 there are signs of apathy, early resignation and detachment from the community among young people. The participation has to be further supported in order to avoid misusing young people as “decoration” for political and civil society processes. This can only be achieved through proper youth work programmes available for every young person in the country. The inter-community relations and intercultural dialogue in 2013 on local, national, European and global level shows signs of worsening. However more mobility opportunities are becoming available each day as a tool to foster social and cultural cohesion. Locally the trend of ethnic and linguistic divide in schools continues and it is also reflected in media, sports and recently religious practices. Growing intolerance results with street violence and there is a growing emphasis on presenting intercultural dialogue as a presentation of ethnic cultural norms. For CID, intercultural dialogue is an open and meaningful process aiming to accept cultural diversity as strength for living and working together. As intercultural dialogue among groups is often resulting in a folkloric presentation of superficial layers of culture, CID strongly supports the intercultural dialogue on individual level.

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In 2013 there is a lot of work put on evidence based programmes and policies. This is a very good opportunity for promotion of the processes for building, implementing and evaluation of evidence based policies which look at research but also at the feedback from practitioners. In general the space for research and analysis before suggesting a public policy becomes more popular for the civil society sector which can lead to further social and civic development in the country.

MAJOR PROGRAMMES AND ACHIVMENTS OF CID IN 2013  CID support to Youth Participation CID supported young people to participate in open and structured dialogue with the authorities and take part in decision making processes both on school and municipal level. On local level CID worked with the Local Youth Council in Kumanovo – the first one in Macedonia which ensured all forms of organized youth are represented including the political party youth organizations. The Local youth council has created a new youth strategy in cooperation with the Municipality, based on the research of the current youth challenges by CID and a facilitation of our team. Furthermore CID worked in the process of creation of two important national youth networks. The first one is the National Youth Council of Macedonia as a network representing the youth organizations and organizations working for young people in the country. The process was regarded as open and very inclusive by the European Youth Forum who is our partner along the way. A second national network that CID initiated in 2013 was the Union for Youth Work representing youth work providers and people who work with young people (youth workers). The Union is a step towards recognition and quality assurance of youth work in the country.

 CID delivers Educational and Youth Work Activities CID is offering training and educational consultancy to various public and private institutions and organizations. Our pool of trainers has 7 members with various expertise and experience in working with different groups on different topics. CID is especially active in provision of training courses for leadership, organizational and project development, intercultural dialogue and acceptance, conflict resolution, youth policy, youth participation, European citizenship and social media. CID is also very experienced in moderating networking meetings and development of policy documents such as youth strategies. In 2013 we have 2 of our pool members selected in the SALTO SEE Resource Center pool of EVS trainers, one trainer in the Council of Europe pool of youth trainers, one member in the European Youth Forum Pool of trainers and a member in each pools of the international organizations we are part of (SCI and YEU).

 CID as a Provider of quality Youth Work CID is running a youth support system in Kumanovo known as the “Multi Култи” youth centers. The concept of the youth centers changed within the year using 2 approaches: the programme based approach and the open volunteer club. The offered programmes in 2013 created space for dialogue among young people. They were the well-known programmes from before such as the Internet radio, arts and crafts programme, leadership and theatre. In cooperation with the Youth Education Forum, in the youth centers from September a new set of programmes is being offered such as the debate programme and street law. CID also run a set of programmes for new youth workers called the Youth Workers Academy offering well-planned processes for development of basic and advanced competences for quality youth work.

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 CID facilitates Inter-Community Dialogue CID is actively facilitating and participating in civil society platforms which enhance the inter-community relations in Macedonia. In Kumanovo CID is focusing on providing support for the Commission for Inter-community Relations and involving other important local stakeholders such as the local institutions, the Municipal Council and the Civil Society Organizations in inter-community dialogue. In 2013 we have initiated the creation of a new network of civil society in South East Europe called the Association for Integration Valorization Activism and Reconciliation – AIVAR. The network will start operating in 2014 as a platform for sustainable inter-community dialogue and development in the region.

 CID encourages a strong European and global cooperation CID is a member of Youth for Exchange and Understanding, and Service Civil International as well as a supporter of UNITED for intercultural action. CID is one of the most experienced mobility agencies with contact points across Macedonia, ensuring youth mobility through quality educational exchanges. CID is also involved in general mobility of teachers, school support staff, and people on the labor market. CID offers as well international volunteering opportunities through summer camps and long term volunteering in Europe and globally. In 2013 we have ensured handover between the former representatives of the organization in the international networks towards new representatives. This will ensure that the organization has proper representation in the upcoming years and has opened opportunities for other members of CID to experience European level decision making.

 Cooperating with Center for Intercultural Dialogue

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The CID worked intensively in building quality partnerships and implementation of joint processes with organizations on local, national, European and global level. The priority was put on establishment of thematic partnerships and cooperation with organizations working in the priority areas similar to the ones of our organization. The following formats of cooperation were especially present: Mobility projects and programmes: CID approaches mobility programmes believing that learners (young people, unemployed, youth at risk, teachers, youth workers, trainers, decision-makers and others) are stimulated to learn better by exchanging good practices and approaches thus we support such activities. Strategic partnerships: CID worked intensively towards the establishment of long-term projects for sustainable change targeting an issue related to intercultural dialogue and acceptance, promotion of diversity, active citizens’ engagement, Human Rights, democratic participation and European and global cooperation. Within the 2013 a lot of accent was put to open the cooperation on topics of interest to our members which represent an issue within the civil society. As a direct result of this approach CID is involved in the ‘No Hate Speech’ movement of the Council of Europe, implementing actively events in Macedonia, as well as within the ‘ENTER’ project of the Council of Europe aiming to develop youth work approaches for social inclusion. Services and support from CID: Our pool of trainers and facilitators as well as our researchers, project managers and logistics offered their support to other organizations in development of their ideas. CID has been supporting the growth of several organizations working on like-minded topics and is willing to continue to play an active role in the development of civil society.

OVERVIEW OF MAIN ACTIVIES IN 2013 The activities of CID in 2013 were implemented with following thematic areas: Youth Work and Youth Policy; Community Development; Youth Unemployment; Regional Cooperation; Human Rights Education; Inclusion. Youth work and Youth Policy Youth Work Recognition The initiative for professionalization and recognition of youth work that CID initiated in 2012, continued also in 2013 and managed to unite the major organizations of the youth sector to work on the creation of youth support systems in Macedonia. The recognition process is focused on defining quality assurance framework of the youth work programs, public recognition of youth work and youth workers in Macedonia. The two main achievements of the project in 2013 were the creation of Union for Youth Work and the Youth Work Fair. Union of Youth Work The Union was created as a networking process uniting over 25 organizations- providers of youth work. The Union put main focus on the creation of the legislative framework for youth work and development of quality assurance th processes for youth work providers and practitioners. The Unionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s constitutive assembly was held on the 13 of June in Skopje. The governing board of the Union of Youth Work is composed of 9 members coming from 9 different member organizations all prompt practitioners in the field.

Youth Work Fair One of the aspects of the Youth Work Recognition process was related to raising the awareness on the need to work on the professionalization and recognition in the sector and create a link among the practitioners and providers of youth work and institutions. This was the aim of the first Youth Work Fair, organised on the 14th and 15th of June, in Skopje. Over 50 practitioners and representatives of institutions took part in the event and discussed about the strategies for professionalization and standardization of youth work; and developed recommendations and guidelines for further next steps on the process.

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The recognition process continues in 2014. The next step of the initiative is to work on the creation of a draft law on youth work. The youth work recognition process is done with the support of National Democratic Institute (NDI) and in partnership with the Agency for Youth and Sport.

Next steps

Local Youth Strategy of Kumanovo Center for Intercultural Dialogue has been involved in facilitating the process for creation of the new Strategy for Youth of Kumanovo. The process was agreed among all key stakeholders such as the Local Youth Council (LMSK) in collaboration with the Municipality of Kumanovo (the City Council and the Mayor’s office). The strategy was envisioned for the period 20142019. The whole process was supported by the Development Program of the United Nations (as part of the project Youth civic engagement and participation at the local level) and the OSCE Mission to Skopje. The preparation of the strategy was within the period from August to December 2013, ensuring open participatory and inclusive approach. The process included activities such as local research, training, discussion groups, dialogue sessions which lead to proposing and adopting common solutions. Through the process more than a hundred representatives of the municipality staff, local institutions and youth civil society took part, and over 450 youth were surveyed within the research segment. The key focus question of the new strategy is how to improve the youth participation in the local decision making. Some of the proposed strategies include administrative support, direct recognition and capacity building of the local youth council, as well as support for youth work programmes on local level. Seminar ‘ACTive YOUth’ The Seminar ACTive YOUth was a 7 day that gathered 30 youth workers and youth leaders from 6 European Countries and developed their understanding and competencies in facilitating active youth participation especially th rd with young people with fewer opportunities. It was organized from 16 to 23 of June in Mavrovo. The project put emphasis on participation barriers for young people with disability (physical and sensory) and young people facing socio-economic obstacles. As an outcome participants developed guidelines for youth workers and youth organization how to facilitate active youth participation. The project was organised in the framework of Youth in Action programme, coordinated by Globallove Youth Trust from the UK, hosted by CID. Community Development Support to the sustainable inter-community dialogue

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The project aimed to promote the participation of young citizens in the local community through capacity building of 3 important entities (the youth council, the local youth center and the Commissions for Inter-community

As part of the process to support the sustainable community development, since September 2012 to September 2013, CID was implementing the project ‘Model for Multicultural Society’ supported by the USAID civil society project.

Relations). The project worked on improving the participation of ethnic communities by strengthening the cooperation of the Commission for Inter-Ethnic Relations (CICR) and local government. In this sense the CICR was motivated to create local policies, while at the same time the project offered opportunities for strengthening the capacity of CICR for Prevention of potential ethnic conflicts. The aspect focused on strengthening youth participation in the local community was done through capacity building of the local Youth Council (LMSK) and the school student communities in all primary and secondary schools in Kumanovo. Finally the project encouraged the active participation of youth in the local community through non-formal education. The programmes for active citizenship through non-formal learning were held in the youth centers. With this approach we were promoting youth work in the existing youth centers "Multiкулти" as a tool to improve interethnic dialogue by encouraging the intercultural learning and communication between young people and building skills for living together in diversity.

Youth Unemployment

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Since July 2013 CID has opened a Leonardo da Vinci programme office within the youth center MultiКулти in order to provide internship opportunities for young unemployed people. Within the project 6 unemployed young people had a practical work experience abroad, acquainting knowledge, skills and qualifications in various areas of their work. Within the project Aleksandra Cvetkovska and Sanja Mihajlovska were part of the Global Love Youth Trust in Cardiff working on daily youth work programmes and issues. Zlata Bojadzieva had the chance for 3 months to work with the Chamber of Agriculture of Kranj. Also Kristina Angelovska and Brankica Zatarakoska were part of the team of the Young European Federalists in Brussels. Finally Sonja Jovanovska went for 6 months at the UNITED for Intercultural Action office in Amsterdam. This practical work experience supported both personal and professional development of the interns.

Mobility and Learning: “EU work experience to increase employability”

The project involved hosting partners from Belgium, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Slovenia and a sending partner from Macedonia coordinating the project (CID). It was supported by National Agency for European Educational Programmes and Mobility. Regional Cooperation NetWess - “NETworking for Efficient and Sustainable Civil Society across the Border” Since April 2013 in the framework of the IPA Cross Border Coperation programme between Macedonia and Bulgaria, CID is implementing the project “NETworking for Efficient and Sustainable Civil Society across the Border”, lead by the European Institute Foundation from Bulgaria. The overall objective of the project is to promote active cross-border networking and cooperation among the civil society organizations in the cross border region of Macedonia and Bulgaria. The project main focus is on strengthening relations between different actors on both sides of the border, serving as a backbone to crossborder initiatives. The project takes a snapshot of the current civil society sectors – their profiles, levels of activity, current development, obstacles and perspectives – on both sides of the border in the whole cross-border area, by comparing both national situations and finding common ground for future development through joint collaboration and networking. As part of the project in 2013 the CID conducted a research in Eastern regions of Macedonia related to the state of play of the civil society. The research included an overview of the current state of civil society (organizations profiles, scope of activities, challenges and perspectives for development). It results were presented on 4 meetings with representatives from civil society from the border region, outlining the challenges in the sector and opportunities for networking. The project continues in 2014 with new set of actives. For further info please visit the project website: www.netwess.org ‘SHOPSKA’ - Study Visit to Balkan st

As part of the CID membership in SCI SAVA Working group, from 21 to 27 of April, we organized the project ‘Shopska Study Visit’, focused on exploring opportunities of the volunteering associations in cross border region of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Kosovo, so called Shopska Region. The name of the project comes from the salad called Shopska, common for the region targeted by this project. The aim of the study visit was to explore the potentials of the volunteering associations and youth groups in the region to work together in developing common strategies to tackle the high inequality and lack of opportunities in the region. The study visit involved 28 activists from 10 European Countries that visited the organizations in Bujanovac and Vranje (Serbia), Kosovo, Kumanovo (Macedonia) and Sofia (Bulgaria);. SAVA stands for Solidarity through Activism and Volunteer Activities; It is a working group of the Service Civil International, focused on collaboration and peace building in the Balkan region, whereas CID is a member since 2008. The project was implemented with the support of the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe.

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The main aim of the Seminar “Learnt Lessons in Youth Regional Cooperation” was to encourage and create opportunities for representatives of youth sector to share experiences and knowledge on youth cooperation, and engage them in a dialogue to identify good practices of regional cooperation. It gathered representatives of 36

Seminar “Lessons learnt from youth regional cooperation”

different organizations, from the EU Member States and neighboring countries (Albania, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Belarus, Bulgaria Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Macedonia, Moldova, Kosovo, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Romania, th Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UK, and Ukraine). It was organized in Mavrovo, from 9 th to 17 of October 2013. During the seminar participants identified best practices in youth regional cooperation of the period 2007-2013 and worked to define a regional cooperation strategy for the period 2014-2020 in the field of youth and social cohesion. The seminar’s main outcomes were presented at a final conference that engaged the project participants and local stakeholders in a dialogue for regional youth cooperation from the aspect of social cohesion. The project was implemented in the framework of Youth in Action Programme supported by the European Commision. YU SEE - Young people networking in the South Eastern Europe YU-SEE is a two year project aiming to connect the organization from the South Eastern Europe. The project is lead by the ‘No Excuse’ Slovenia and is realized in different phases, with events taking place in each of the involved countries (Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Bosna and Hecegovina and Serbia). As part of the project in July the CID hosted the working meeting aiming to evaluate the progress of the project and plan steps further. The project continues in 2014, with action days organized in each of the partners’ countries aiming to raise the participation of young people in the local community. Human Rights Education National Training Course in Human Rights Education As a follow up of the National Training Course for Human Rights Education (NTCHRE) organized in 2012, in 2013 CID has organized for the second time the NTCHRE in Macedonia this time with the focus on Human Rights Online. st th The training for trainers on preventing hate speech online, took place in Mavrovo from the 1 to 7 of October and developed competences of 25 multipliers and trainers to provide educational activities on HRE in schools and youth centers.

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The project was supported by the Youth Department of the Council of Europe and it was implemented in partnership with the national campaign committee of the No Hate Speech Campaign in Macedonia. Since this was an course which was coordinated and part of the national campaign committee of the No Hate Speech Campaign in Macedonia, it helped raise the visibility of the campaign among different youth NGOs and institutions, and as well to encourage more activists to join in and support the national and European campaign.

LOG IN for Human Rights "LOG IN for Human Rights" was 12 day Seminar for multipliers that aimed to empower youth leaders, volunteers and activists to fight exclusion and discrimination in the cyber space and promote active youth participation and rd th human rights using IT & Social Media. It was organised from 23 of July to 6 of August in Mavrovo. The project contributed to raising awareness about hate speech and discrimination online and understanding its consequences for democracy and human rights. The project was part of the National No Hate Speech Campaign and it was implemented with the support of European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe. As an outcome a national conference on the topic of combating hate speech online was organized in partnership with the national campaign committe. For further info please visit the project blog http://loginforhumanrights.weebly.com/ Combating hate speech online- Workshops on Digital Media In September within the MultiКулти youth center we held a workshop on Digital media and recognizing hate speech online for young people from Kumanovo. The workshop was part of a larger project which is coordinated by the Liberal Alternatives Institute. The workshops were organized with high school students in Kumanovo and motivated them people to react against hate speech online. These workshops were part of the annual programme of the Youth Center MultiКулти. Inclusion Training course accessible project cycle management The project Accessible Project Cycle Management was a 9 day Training Course for 30 youth workers and youth leaders from 10 European Countries (Austria, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, Spain, Kosovo, Serbia th th and Macedonia). The training course was implemented from 15 to 24 of May, and equipped participants with competences to develop projects cycles driven by the notion of inclusion and accessibility. It directly included young people facing socio-economic obstacles. The project was implemented in the framework of Youth in Action Programme of the European Commision. Youth exchange “Youth for Outdoor Inclusion” The Youth Exchange “Youth for outdoor inclusion” gathered 60 young people from 12 European Countries (UK, Turkey, Slovenia, Serbia, Romania, Poland, Moldova, Albania, Italy, Croatia, Armenia and Macedonia). It was held th th in Mavrovo from 5 to 14 of November. The exchange offered a chance to talk about youth inclusion and how sport and outdoor activities can give a contribution to the youth development, especially for youth with special needs and youth with fewer opportunities. Participants experienced the potential of sport and outdoor activities, which can influence both the perception of the environment around them and their development of leadership skills.

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The event was organized in the framework of Youth in Action programme, and locally in partnership with the National Scouts Association.

Training youth workers to work with youth at risk The “Training for trainers fostering social inclusion and employability of institutionalized youth” aimed to develop competences of trainers and youth workers active and experienced in designing and delivering educational programmes to facilitate inclusion, initiate employability and work with marginalized youth. The project put specific focus on working with youth at risk such as young people in orphanages, day care centers, juvenile th rd delinquency institutions, prisons etc. It was implemented from 16 to 23 of August and gathered youth workers and youth leaders from 14 youth organizations from Europe (UK, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Turkey, Spain, Belgium, and Romania). Within the project a visit was made to the minors’ prison in Ohrid, the social work center in Ohrid and the Council for prevention in Struga. The project was implemented in the framework of Youth in Action Programme, supported by National Agency for European Educational Programmes and Mobility. Youth Exchange ‘Www.Nature.EU’ rd

The ‘Www.Nature.EU’ was an environmental and outdoor based youth exchange organized from 23 to 30 October in Ohrid, Macedonia. The youth exchange aimed to raise awareness about environmental issues and explored the possibilities to act toward sustainable living culture. The youth exchange involved 24 participants from 3 Countries (Macedonia, Czech Republic and UK).

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The project was organised in the framework of Youth in Action programme, lead by Global love Youth Trust form UK and hosted by CID.

NETWORKS and REPRESENTATION in 2013 The Networking of CID within 2013 was of high importance, since it allows working together with different organizations. The focus in the past year was put on national and local networking as well as on further development of quality cooperation on international level. In 2013 the following national level platforms, network and other cooperation processes were established: 1. The National Youth Council of Macedonia, where CID has been very active in the past finally was established in June 2013. Ivana Davidovska from CID was elected president of the National Youth Council. CID also supported the implementation of the Capacity building and Sustainability training in cooperation with the European Youth Forum. 2. The Union of Youth Work is probably one of the most inspiring processes that CID is a part of. In June 2013 the union was created. Stefan Manevski from CID was elected president of the board of the Union. 3. The National Campaign against hate speech online (Campaign for Human Rights online) has started in Macedonia as part of the European movement coordinated by the Council of Europe. CID is present in the National Campaign Committee with Matej Manevski and Milos Ristovski On European and global level our work also focused on cooperating within the networks we are part of. In 2013 we have been active in 3 European and global networks: 1.

Service Civil International (SCI) is a peace organisation and one of the world's largest international volunteering networks. SCI has ninety years of experience in coordinating short- and long-term volunteering projects in all continents. In 2013, Matej Manevski was working as the coordinator of the SAVA – Balkan working group of SCI. SAVA is a Working Group of Service Civil International (SCI International) that is focused on working with the Balkan (SEE) region. SAVA stands for Solidarity through Action and Voluntary Activities. CID also hosted the SCI Study visit for Balkans called the study visit to Shopska region, and also Milos Ristovski participates in the educational team for the upcoming study session of SCI to be held in Council of Europe Youth Center Budapest next year. Youth for Exchange and Understanding (YEU) works to promote peace, understanding and co-operation between the young people of the world, in a spirit of respect for human rights. YEU is a member of the European Youth Forum which is the independent platform for INGYOs and NYCs in Europe. As part of activities in YEU, CID hosted the annual Youth Convention in summer 2013 in Kumanovo, Mavrovo, Struga and Skopje. The convention was facilitated by Matej Manevski, Magdalena Manevska and Mila Karadafova and logistically supported by Dragana Jovanovska, Katerina Gjorgievska and Tomi Stojanovic. CID also participated in the YEU annual assembly represented by Katerina Gjorgievska. Two trainers from CID, Matej Manevski and Nik Paddison are also part of the YEU People for Education and Training (Trainers Pool). UNITED for Intercultural Action is a European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees. CID remains a very close partner with the network and was represented on their annual conference in Prague by Stefan Manevski. In 2013 our youth worker Florim Rexhepi joined the UNITED Secretariat in Amsterdam for one year supporting their work and learning directly from the network.

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Enter! Promoting Social Rights for all Young People. ‘Enter’ is long-term training course (2012-2014) is a project of the Council of Europe which promotes access to social rights for young people, in particular of those exposed to social exclusion, discrimination and violence, through a variety of local, national and European interventions involving policy-makers, youth work actors and young people. Milos Ristovski is one of the participant-youth workers, working on inclusion project in the local youth work system in Kumanovo. Within the project a

CID was also present on several important meetings, training courses and other events within Europe and globally which have given us a new impetus towards the achievement of our organizational objectives:

conference promoting the objectives of the training was held in November 2013 in Strasbourg. The conference was attended by Deniz Memedi. No Hate Speech Movement; Training course for young online activists - is organized by the Council of Europe Youth Department. It takes place between February 2013 and March 2014, comprising of a residential seminar in April 2013 in the European Youth Centre Budapest, e-learning based training and initiatives to support the campaign against hate speech online of the Youth Department of the Council of Europe. Among the 30 online activists taking part is Matej Manevski from CID working against hate speech online and to promote and defend human rights online. Within the No Hate Speech movement a pan-European conference was held in November 2013 which was attended by Stefan Manevski and Matej Manevski. On the occasion of 50th anniversary of Switzerland’s accession to Council of Europe a Study Trip to Switzerland was organized from 1-7 May, 2013 with 50 young people from 11 countries. Ivana Davidovska had the opportunity to represent CID within this study trip and get inspired for cooperation with the Swiss youth sector. In February 2013 the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe (EYF) initiated a launching seminar “EYF Re-loaded” promoting their new system in Strasbourg. The seminar presented the strategic use of EYF grants to best meet the needs of young people in all Council of Europe countries and achieve open and informal networking between the EYF team and the people running projects with EYF grants. Milos Ristovski from CID presented our experience and proposals towards the European Youth Foundation. The 1st official meeting of PET (People for Education and Training) of Youth for Exchange and Understanding took place in Tolo, Greece in April 2013. The event was hosted by N.A.K Hellas and CID was represented by Matej Manevski a trainer in the Pool of trainers of YEU. The 9th Africa-Europe Training Course took part from 3-11 May in Mindelo, Cape Verde. It was organised by the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe aiming to bring together European and African youth organizations and support development of cooperation between them. Stefan Manevski represented CID within this training course. The fourth Training Course for Youth leaders of the African Diaspora Living in Europe was organised by the NorthSouth Centre of the Council of Europe in co-operation with the African Diaspora Youth Network in Europe (ADYNE) in Tunisia from 1-8 July. CID supported Zora Prudence Ebale Nikoloska to take part. The course aimed at strengthening the role of young people particularly youth leaders and youth workers from the African Diaspora active in youth organizations. CID through Stefan Manevski was also present at the High-level Conference on tolerance and anti-discrimination of the OSCE and hosted in Tirana from 20-22 May. The conference looked at the implementation of the existing commitments on combating manifestations of discrimination and intolerance, including preventing and responding to hate crimes.

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Stefan Manevski took part in the seminar titled “Working with Trainers III” in Sofia, Bulgaria in September 2013 aiming to discuss the role and functions of trainers’ pools within the Youth in Action programme and their applicability within different National Agencies and national contexts.

From 29 November to 6 December 2013, Milos Ristovski and Aleksandra Davidovska took part in the training course “Youth Takes the Floor” in Faro, Portugal. This training course aimed to allow youth leaders, youth workers and local officers to work together developing their competences to create spaces where youth can work with municipalities in the development of their communities.

CID MOBILITY OPPORTIUNITIES in 2013 In the year 2013 CID has been partner on more than 32 international educational activities. The total amount of people that used the sending service is 92 learners and 18 volunteers/interns. Out of these, 52 youth leaders participated in training courses, conferences and seminars, and 40 young people had their first mobility experience within a youth exchange. These young people had a chance to explore the topics of Intercultural Learning, volunteering, youth participation, European citizenship, healthy life styles, Media, and other topics. A new aspect of our work was the focus made on internships. With the approval of Leonardo da Vinci project CID managed to send 5 interns abroad and also host 1 intern through the Erasmus practical work experience opportunity. Within the 2013 CID also sent 5 volunteers on the international volunteering camps of the Service Civil international which is a number that can be improved in the upcoming years. Finally in 2013 we sent 8 EVS volunteers mainly on long-term project which is quite important for provision of the opportunity to volunteer abroad for young people from Macedonia. Our volunteers for 2013 are Ivana Lumakovska (Ireland), Bojan Stojkovski (Slovenia), Bojana Boshkovska, Marijana Jachevska, Kristijan Ilievski (Poland), , Florim Rexhepi (Netherlands), Natasha Shurkova (Bulgaria)

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In 2013 there were a record number of hosted learners as a result of the mobility projects which CID hosted in Macedonia. The number is 3 times higher than the sent learners. This is due to the hosting of large events of the European networks where we are part of, but also due to the increased number of organizations and institutions which would like to attend the training courses and other educational activities in CID. Our work on external educational programmes in CID will be strengthened in the next years in order to achieve balance in this aspect as well. With regards to volunteering and long-term programmes there is a balance of sent and hosted volunteers.

PROVISION of EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES in 2013 In 2013 CID pool of trainers and experts was very active and regularly providing expertise internally in CID and to externally to partner organizations and contractors. The members of the pool have been contracted for 28 educational events. Also some of the members of the CID pool are also represented in the SALTO SEE Pool of Trainers (Ivana Davidovska and Stefan Manevski), Council of Europe Pool of trainers (Ivana Davidovska) and European Youth Forum Pool of trainers and Facilitators (Stefan Manevski). CID has 2 trainers in the Pool of trainers of Youth for Exchange and Understanding (Matej Manevski and Nik Paddison) and one trainer in the Service Civil International (Milos Ristovski). Our pool of trainers offering external services this year enlarged with Magdalena Manevska who worked on a training course in Ukraine focusing on Project Management. In 2013 CID hosted 15 educational activities (training courses, seminars, youth exchanges and other formal of educational activities). This number represents only the activities that last more than 2 working days and does not include the one-off workshops which are counted as events. In 2013 our pool was very active in provision of services for other organizations â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a total of 28 educational activities were implemented abroad. We compared this number to the 32 partnership projects where CID was involved by sending participants and ensuring their preparation and follow-up. The pool offers services to institutions such as SALTO SEE Resource Center, Council of Europe- Directorate for Youth and Sport, Macedonian National Agency for European Educational Programmes and Mobility and others. Among the organizations in 2013 we have provided external expertise to the Young European Federalists sections in Greece, Sweden, France and Norway, the Institute for Ukrainian Studies (UA), Global Love Youth Trust (UK), Service Civil International, Realization (HR), European Movement (ISL), and Roma Youth Center and Bujrum Center for Rural Development (MK).

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Within the hosted 15 educational events of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue in 2013, a big diversity of learners was involved. The following data shows that there is a balance between the learners from Kumanovo (local beneficiaries), learners from other towns in Macedonia (national beneficiaries), and learners from Europe attending our educational events.

OVERVIEW OF THE OFFICE In 2013 CID has undergone changes in the Secretariat (Office) of the organization which were voted and approved by the Assembly of members in August 2013. Until the summer 2013 we had an office managed by the Executive Director with project officers working on specific topics. Following the changes, the office is now managed by the Office Director, while the Executive Decisions are made by the Executive Board. This change was made in order to ensure that there will be enough space and capacity to deal with the implementation of initiatives and processes on local, national and European level at the same time.

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Currently within CID office the following are the staff positions on full time and part time engagement: Executive Board president, Office Manager, Financial Manager, 3 Project officers, Coordinator of external educational programmes and volunteers, Logistical and administrative officer and 2 Youth workers. In terms of working space, the organization operated in 2 locations during the year. The office and administrative building was located in the legal address of the organization and the youth center MultiКулти was used for all youth work related programmes. In partnership with other organizations some of the local youth work processes were also held at their premises representing a model of the youth work system that Kumanovo needs to sustain in the future.

DRAFT INCOME OVERVIEW for 2013 (final account closing is to be made on 31.12.2013) Projects / Programmes

Source of Funding

Seminar Learnt Lessons in Youth Regional Cooperation

EU -Youth in Action - EACEA

27664

Youth Exchange Youth for Outdoor Inclusion

EU -Youth in Action - EACEA

33809

Training Course Accessible project cycle management Training for Trainers: Fostering social inclusion and employment of institutionalized youth Leonardo Da Vinci programme â&#x20AC;&#x201C; People in Labor Market: EU work experience to increase employability European Voluntary Service: Ajde Makedonija: Exchange of European experience in Youth Work Project: NETWESS - NETworking for Efficient and Sustainable Civil Society across the Border Activities implemented as part of Europe Day 2013 European Voluntary Service: Think and act outside your world Hosting of Educational Activities in Macedonia (Partnership Projects)

EU -Youth in Action - EACEA EU- Youth in Action - Macedonian NA EU - Lifelong Learning - Macedonian NA EU- Youth in Action - Macedonian NA EU- IPA Cross Border Programme MK-BG EU Delegation in Skopje

18714

National Training Course in Human Rights Education International Seminar Log in for Human Rights Process for recognition of Youth Work and creation of the Union for Youth Work

Amount in EUR

17073 23438 8610 42519 3750

EU - Youth in Action - Belgian NA

2688

EU - partnership based projects Council of Europe - Youth Department

13500

Council of Europe - EYF

10000

4990

National Democratic Institute

3968

OSCE Mission to Skopje

2738

Project: Creation of the local Youth Strategy of Kumanovo Income from offered services to other organizations/ institutions

UNDP (project Youth civic engagement and participation at the local level)

4618

Various

9550

Fees and members contributions

Various

1450

Project: Enhancing Advocacy Capacities of the Local Youth Council - Kumanovo

TOTAL for 2013

229079

Secured funding for 2014 E-Region : Development Opportunity

EU - IPA Cross border programme MK-BG

54315

Role of Youth in Action in Youth Work Development Development of local youth policies and local youth participation in 12 municipalities

EU - Youth in Action - EACEA

33055

EU - IPA Civil Society Facility

TBC

87370

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TOTAL secured for 2014

5 4 3 2 1 Average Rounded Up Average

MK Gymnasia ALB Elementary BS MK Economics MK Technical MK Agricultural ALB Economics Total 16 2 3 3 5 1 30 9 2 6 5 4 0 26 9 10 12 7 1 0 39 0 11 0 4 0 3 18 3 2 2 4 2 1 14 3,945945946 2,703703704 3,391304348 2,913043478 3,916666667 2,8 3,228346 3,95 2,7 3,39 2,91 3,92 2,8 3,23

Young People's Opportunities in Kumanovo 'Rating' Total

3,23

ALB Economics

2,8

MK Agricultural

3,92

MK Technical

2,91

MK Economics

3,39

ALB Elementary BS

2,7

MK Gymnasia

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0,5

1,5

2,5

3,5

4,5

MK Gymnasia Recreational Areas Good People Cultural Centre of City Neutral Description Religious People Neutral Kumani Sport Humour Food Social Life Positive Emotion or Description Negative Emotion or Description Education Total

ALB Elementary BS

MK Economics 6 3 1 6 3 5 2

1 2 7

6 11 27

MK Technical MK Agricultural ALB Economics Total 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 1

1 3 2

1 13 4

3 5 2

2 2 1 2 1 1

1 5

MK Gymnasia 'Represents Kumanovo'

ALB Economics 'Represents Kumanovo'

8 7 3 12 11 5 2 3 9 3 2 6 25 17 1 114

20%

60%

Recreational Areas Good People Cultural Centre of City Neutral Description Religious People Neutral Kumani Sport Humour Food Social Life Positive Emotion or Description Negative Emotion or Description Education

ALB Elementary BS 'Represents Kumanovo'

Recreational Areas Recreational Areas

Good People 4%

Cultural

Good People

Neutral Description 41% 26%

Cultural

23%

Centre of City

Centre of City Neutral Description

19%

Religious

People Neutral

People Neutral Kumani

Kumani 11%

Sport Humour

Humour 12%

Food

Positive Emotion or Description Negative Emotion or Description Education

Social Life Positive Emotion or Description

Social Life 22%

Sport

23%

Negative Emotion or Description Education

MK Economics 'Represents Kumanovo'

MK Technical 'Represents Kumanovo' Recreational Areas

Recreational Areas 4%

10%

Good People

17%

Good People

Cultural

Cultural 18%

14%

Centre of City

Neutral Description

Neutral Description Religious 4%

Religious

24%

People Neutral

People Neutral 5%

Kumani

Kumani Sport

Sport

Humour

14%

Food

Food 57%

Social Life

14%

Social Life Positive Emotion or Description

Positive Emotion or Description

Negative Emotion or Description

MK Agricultural 'Represents Kumanovo'

Total 'Represents Kumanovo' 1%

Recreational Areas 8%

Good People

Cultural

Recreational Areas

15%

Centre of City 8%

Neutral Description

Good People Cultural

Centre of City

Religious 17%

Neutral Description

People Neutral Kumani 17% 8%

10%

Kumani

Humour 17%

Food

Religious People Neutral

Sport 22%

Sport Humour

Social Life 10%

Food Social Life Positive Emotion or Description

4% 5% 3% 2%

3% 8%

Negative Emotion or Description Education

MK Gymnasia Love Beautiful Ethnic Pressure Big City Small City Home Boring Boring Boring Friends Home Square Home Small Home Sweet Home Great City Gossip Bad Town Small Disaster Best Town Batko Gjorgia Boring Jealous Good City A lot of people that bother with other people life Rednecks

ALB Elementary BS Mosque Mosque Mosque Buildings Old City Very Nice People Nice People Friendly People Friendly People Youngers A lot of people Culture Home Centre of Kumanovo Garnizon Batko Gorgia Center Library Statue The park of Kumanovo city Stadium Stadium Proevce Proevce mineral water Reservoir Mosque Mosque

MK Economics Jealous Bored Joke Crazy Kindness Cool Happiness Amazing Beautiful Interesting Interesting Interesting Fun Exciting Fun Happiness Peace Handball Football Sports Hall Basketball Party Blue-White City

MK Technical Basketball Basketball Sports Kumani Tradition Free Town Party's Walking Friendly Funny Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Cool Best Humour Kumanovo Woods Friendship My Girlfriend Boring Boring

MK Agricultural Sport Kumani Kumani Football Basketball Beautiful Traditional Kumanovska Banja (SPA) Jokes Night Life Food Good Food Batko Gjorgia

ALB Economics Kumanovo University Center Center CafĂŠ Garnizon

MK Gymnasia Positive Neutral Sport Related Negative Total

ALB Elementary BS 14 4

MK Economics 23 1 1 1 26

9 27

MK Technical MK Agricultural 9 15 4 10 23

MK Gymnasia 'Youth Feeling'

6 21

ALB Economics 6 2

4 12

2 5

Neutral 52%

70 11 1 32 114

MK Economics 'Youth Feeling'

Positive

33%

Total

39%

44%

Positive Neutral

Sport Related

Negative

15% 17%

ALB Elementary BS ' Youth Feeling'

Positive Neutral Sport Related Negative 88%

Total 'Youth Feeling'

28% Positive Neutral Sport Related 1% 61% 10%

Negative

MK Agricultural 'Youth Feeling'

Positive

33%

Neutral 50%

Sport Related Negative

17%

ALB Economics 'Youth Feeling'

Positive

40%

Neutral Sport Related 60%

Negative

MK Technical 'Youth Feeling'

29% Positive Neutral Sport Related Negative 71%

MK Gymnasia

ALB Elementary BS

MK Economics

MK Technical

MK Agricultural

Beautiful, Fun

Good

I feel free

Social

I am feeling amazing

ALB Economics As a young person, I am (very) desperate.

I am not satisfied

As a young person, I feel desperate because of unemployment.

Good

I feel proud because my people (Albanians) are starting to get more information and be more aware of things

I feel very fun in Kumanovo

As a young person I feel proud and available, I am content with my youth. I am proud because I teach.

I'm very happy

Out of world civilisation

I feel it to be a friendly place

Sweety

I feel free

Delayed

Crazy

Living in a small town where everybody knows everything is not very amusing Wonderful

I feel countable

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel brave enough to do the things I want to Beautiful

Girls in my generation are feeling so depressed. Crazy

Fine

Crazy

I feel like there is not enough opportunities for me to express my talent and introduce myself just the way I am. Kumanovo is great to live if Cool As a young person I feel free and safe

So Happy Wonderful Nice

I feel stressed here I feel crazy. I feel stressed

Crazy Crazy Cool

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like it I am not satisfied! I feel depressed

Happy

I feel angry

Cool

Free

Amazing

I feel angry

Awesome

Free

Excellent

I feel crazy.

Awesome

Feel Alive

Happy

I feel unsafe.

Special

I think it should be better As a young teenager I feel good in Kumanovo As a young teenager I feel very good in Kumanovo As a younger teenager I feel interested & fun

I feel not so free to choose what I want. I feel free, but in the same time boring. Free, Bored I feel young, wild, free, beautiful, happy :) As a young person in Kumanovo, I feel nice <3

I feel that I am not I feel beautiful, have girls, friends involved.

Excellent

Cool Nice

I'm, I feel lonely. I feel funny.

Great Great

Happy

I feel free an happy

Good

Crazy :)

I feel interesting.

Relax

Free, outgoing, disorganised <3 Feel Good I feel nice and free. Crazy :) I feel free to do almost anything I want. I feel excited

I am proud of my city. I feel great.

Relax Very Happy

I feel like a god

Wonderful

I feel young, wild & free :) xoxo Great

I feel good.

Wonderful

I feel free to express myself

Excited

I feel sexy.

I feel free, beautiful! In Kumanovo I feel great

I feel beautiful, have building Liberal I feel excited and a bit discriminated! We played football versus panthers

I'm fun.

I feel really bored. I feel there is too much gossip I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel good enough here in Kumanovo

MK Gymnasia Sport Work / Study Movies / TV Music Reading Social Computer Cooking Relaxation Travel Organisations Language Cultural Art Religious Charity Other Motorcycle Total

18 1 2 6 1 8 2 1 4 1 1

ALB Elementary BS MK Economics MK Technical MK Agricultural ALB Economics 10 15 13 3 2 1 2 1 2 2 1 3 6 4 2 1 7 1 2 1 3

4 1 1

1 2

4 22

MK Gymnasia 'Activities' 2% 2%

9% 2% 39%

17%

Total 3 2 2 1

13%

Sport Work / Study Movies / TV Music Reading Social Computer Cooking Relaxation Travel Organisations Language Cultural Art Religious Charity Other Motorcycle

62 5 7 10 3 18 6 1 8 2 12 1 3 2 3 2 2 4 151

ALB Elementary BS 'Activities'

Sport Work / Study Movies / TV Music

Reading

Social 6%

30%

Computer Cooking

Relaxation Travel Organisations Language 21%

3% 3%

Cultural Art Religious

12% 6%

Charity Other Motorcycle

Total 'Activities'

Sport Work / Study Movies / TV

2% 1% 2%

Music

1% 1%

Reading 3%

Social Computer Cooking

Relaxation

1% 41%

Travel Organisations

Language

Cultural

Art Religious Charity

12%

Other 3% 2%

Motorcycle

MK Agricultural 'Activities' Sport Work / Study

6% 19%

Movies / TV Music Reading Social

38%

13%

Computer Cooking Relaxation

13%

Travel Organisations

13%

Language Cultural

MK Economics 'Activities'Sport

Work / Study

Movies / TV

Music

Reading

Social

Computer

Cooking

Relaxation

Travel

Organisations

Language

Cultural

Art

Religious

Charity

Other

Motorcycle

8% 4% 4%

15%

58% 12%

MK Technical 'Activities'

Sport Work / Study Movies / TV Music

18%

Reading Social Computer Cooking

Relaxation Travel

Organisations 59% 9%

Language Cultural Art

Religious Charity Other Motorcycle

ALB Economics 'Activities'

Sport Work / Study Movies / TV Music Reading

13%

Social Computer 38%

Cooking Relaxation Travel

25%

Organisations Language Cultural Art Religious Charity 25%

Other Motorcycle

MK Gymnasia

Jogging, Cycling, Cooking, Watching TV, Sleeping

ALB Elementary BS

MK Economics

I learn English

Fitness, Bodybuilding, Shopping, Travelling, Loving, Dance, Study Travel Going out with friends, writing diary, watching movies Fitness club, cycling, Reading, cooking, singing, taking long walks Hanging out with friends, tennis, cycling, listening to music play tennis, play computer games, cycling Listening to music, hanging out with friends, walking, cycling, running

MK Technical

MK Agricultural

ALB Economics

I would like to be part of an organisation which represents my country. Sleep

I go to the walk.

I work for an insurance agency

I am a criminal

I work and go out with friends.

I watch movies and listen to music

Driving motorbike

Shopping

I am a member of the Mafia. Riding a motorcycle

I'm watching TV.

The activity I do is running

Shopping

I love hanging out with friends

Motorbike

Read book, go out with friends, watch movies.

I play football

Riding Motorbike

Work in hair salon & go out for coffee with Play soccer, watch friends. movies, work

Multi Cultural :)

Multi Kulti :D

Play Billiard

Cycling, hanging out with friends (does this count as an activity?) Painting :D I love hanging out Dancer at "Dance with friends Studio Ultra" <3

To organise party with other people.

I am a member of Kumani! Football I'm giving clothes or some toys to children who don't have parents. Football

Playing handball with famous people. Basketball I'd like to play Play Tennis, Play football. Football

I am reading books

I go to Zumba, Aerobics

I go running. I go to the dancing classes.

I play football

Boxing <3

Play football

I play football I would like to take better place in the I trained in the handball cup of Soccer Club Bashkimi Macedonia.

Play football

Tournament

I am a swimmer.

Basketball

Play football

Last year I went to Socobanja, this year we go to Kraguevac with my friends in my basketball team. Basketball

Play Soccer

I would like to be a ballerina.

Workout

In the past I trained football.

Workout

Playing volleyball. Collecting toys and clothes for children without parents

Playing Handball

writing diary, hanging out with friends, playing guitar. We play football

Play Football

in free time I'm visiting my favourite bar, where I'm meeting whit my friends in free time I'm having walk whit my boyfriend and my girl friends in free time I'm drinking coffee whit my girl friends or friends

Basketball club

Open Fun Football School

We played football Basketball club versus Panther I am a member of Kumani and we follow their games. I play Basketball. Walking

I would like to play basketball. I would like to be a member of a street dance club.

Singing & piano.

Computer Games

Football, Basketball.

Game

Tennis and cycling. Coffee with friends. Computer games. I would like street festivals, music concerts and more night life. Cycling, Tennis & Football

Counter Strike Muslim Studies

Islamic Studies

Sport

I run with my friends Basketball

I really enjoy swimming and cycling Forum Rinor Islam :) I dance in DTFusion. I want to do more sports activities on the quay like running, cycling, etc. Music I would like there to be some more street festivals with live music. Play PS3

Play Football

Art

To dance with friends on the street. Music I would like to play tennis and ride a bike. Music Playing volleyball with my friends in our free time.

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No No No No No Yes No No No Yes No No Yes No No Yes No Yes

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Inspiration To Take Part

Involved In Organisation Activities Involved In

No the topic of the activity

Yes Yes

My nature does not allow me to stand still. I need to be in movement, I need to do things, study two degrees at the same time, manage projects, travel etc. Yes I like helping people

youth activities, and I am involved in most of them I decided to pull back a bit because of my studies, I decided I want to devote my time to myself. I moved to the capital and after 3 years of not volunteering I noticed I need to activate myself again! I decided to go and be part of the Autonomous Cultural Social Center [AKSC] in Skopje.

It was a youth action in struga supported and organized by the Roma Youth Center and it was a great opportunity for me to be involved with people with different cultures for a whole week Yes

I am an assistant of the NGO in my town for media = art club and we organize sometimes workshops about multimedia , lessons about photography and also some exhibitions about a topic that we select and take pictures for it . I am also a PHV (promotions for human values) in the Red Cross and right no

the activities

Yes

making projects, helping people

Yes

I get involved in fleshmobs, cultural events, street activities, celebrate some important days and many other activities.

My inspiration was that i wanned to learn about other nationalites, to make new friends, develop my personal skills and many other things.

I thought that I would make a change in my society and also for the fun and meeting new people.

youth for youth

Yes

I wanted to do something good for my city ,something new and fun. Yes to be a part of something, to learn and make new friends No The chance to travel, to meet people and brake your stereotypes. Yes The possibility to get involved in the process of making decisions; meeting people, making contacts, learning, self-development... I believe that volunteering can contribute to the further development of my knowledge, abilities and skills. Any participation in the activity that is associated with youth work is of great importance to all of us young because participation shows that we are ready for the changes that will enable u I wanted to travel and meet new people.

Yes

Yes No No

Inspired me to accompany with people who knew him notice different cultures and at the same time learning something at school you probably never have learned Yes Opportunity to develop new skills, to help other youth and opportunity to travel Yes

intercultural activities I was a member of the Youth Organization as a dancing teacher, there I met my dancing partner from another country which was very fun,also I took part in Language activities,acting,cleaning the city ,different flash mobs etc.

It works in the field of non-formal education providing training on different topics for young people. Also, it has an youth center in the town where I get involved too.

Youth volunteer organization that is a political youth organization working on topics of EU federalism and youth activism.

Various activities, for example I have been involved in the project "forbidden language hatred", "Youth leadership and activation", through Cid was 14 days in Great Britain where it was an experience I will never erase from mind, I've been with the Multi-Kultur etc.. Yes I do, in activities related to Youth Activism

I'm very tall and I like to be a team player and to have fun. Because I want to live a healthy life, sporty life also and I don't want to be a person who knows nothing.

To make friends

Yes No

Yes No No

So we play some matches and we travel to another country to get more experience for my kind of sport.

Yes, I am a handball player and we play in Macedonias youth league.

No No No No No No

My friends

No No No No

No Sport and the will of success To make more friends Friends

To help people

Yes No No No

No No No

Hanging out and meeting new friends, visiting other towns. Donantions to poor children.

I want challenges in my life so I thought it will be a small part of lesson in life. I was interested. I want to help people. I want to help

Yes No No No Yes Yes

Red Cross - helping people who are homeless and feeding them and we help them with clothes.

No No No It motivated me the things that they are doing in the organisation. To hang around and make friends

Everybody is together, friendly.

No Yes No No No No

I went but my friends were not involved and then I had no interest. No No I'm inspired to take part in Youth Organisation Multi-Kulti because I can talk with people from another ethnic nationality Yes The passion for sport No I'm felling proud presenting my town No No Its interesting to participate in the youth organisation, its funny, you find new friends thats all. Yes No No I thought it could be fun No No To study something more and meet friends No

I used to be involved in Multi-Kulti, multi ethnic organisationwhen I was younger, but interest diminished over the years.

Yes, I'm involved in many activities like Web Design

Red cross arrangements for helping people

No No No No No It motivated me for journeys and walking around No Entertainment & Debate No That is something different and not practical and not usual. The things that the organisation is doing you can not learn in school and practice. Yes My friends said it was fun Yes Three years agao Mulyi Kulti was giving an opportunity for taking part in drama club. I was interested in and I started and took part. The work club was finished and we made a play. I will never forget those people. No My friends and providing peaceful time Yes No No No

Traditional dance activities

Youth exchanges, orginizing local.activities,and communication with the foreign volunteer Youth Exchanges, Training Courses, Seminars, etc..

International trainings

No No No No No They were giving Spanish classes with a Spanish volunteer No

Debate

No No No Yes

Hiking

No No No No No

No No No No Yes No No My sister gave me motivation There were some interesting classes I took part in. Unsure

Competition on the local and state level

No No No No Yes No No

Red Cross

Meeting new people expand my friendship , expand my knowledge for certain field and things No New friendship and useful combination of a free time

No No

To meet some new friends and to help everywhere.

Yes No No

We play games and travel Macedonia.

To make new friends

Yes

Games, drawing, writing, learning, etc.

To be friendly

Yes

Games, drawing, learning, etc

No Interest I have interest in this work. There I feel wonderful. and I think this is good for me.

No Yes

Normal Activities We have interesting activities. We play, learn another language, etc.

Yes

Muslim things.

No They used me because I wanted to participate.

Yes

Activities for charity

Yes

It's a dancing organisation.

No No Football

Yes

Football

I love to travel and meet new friends from different countries.

Yes

First we play meeting games, then we learn how should we help when someone's in danger, and to make things from the remains of other stuff.

Football

Yes

Football

Yes

Football

Interest

Drawing, playing, etc.

No No A friend

A Friend

Yes

A friend

Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No

Dancing

No No No No No Yes No No No No No No No No No Yes No No I was inspired because it was a very good activity and we were just having fun with young people Yes I was inspired because pax were my age and not just Albanians but also Macedonians and knowing and hanging with them was one of the reasons Yes because they had plays and many of my friends are not only Albanian but Macedonian, I was offered and friends was one of the motivations

Theatre Multi Kulti

we make different games with the multi kulti organization

Activities Want To Take Part In Future Participation Almost all kinds of activitys. I think a youth exchange it's a great thing. The activitys of the project counts, but i think that the persons and the differences in the way of life counts more. I would opt for sports, arts, volunteering, music or event management. Everything that involves more pract Yes in activities with music and dance

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Yes

Yes Yes

Yes Some

Very Very

Yes Yes

Art and culture. Definitely art and culture activities!

Some

Very

music activities

Yes

Extremely

Yes

i would like to participate in youth actions more , the street activities and some actions that are connected with planning and organizing and also multimedia actions Yes

Yes

Extremely

Yes

the important is to do something no matter what! Yes

Extremely

Yes

I want to take part in art and street activities.

Extremely

Yes

I would like to take part in art activities ana street activities Yes

Some

Don't know

Yes

I would like to take part more in street activities

Some

Extremely

Yes

I tried most of them but what I like more is street activities. Yes

Extremely

Yes

sports activities

Yes

Some

Very

Yes

Art activities

Yes

Some

Extremely

New media, social media activities. Interactive marketing, human rights on the internet, online radio etc.

Yes

Extremely

Yes

i am interested in all activities connected with social science, politics and social work, art (film, photography, writing) Yes Seminars, trainings, workshops Yes Yes

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Activities which mostly with art and fancy is sport. Yes

Some

Extremely

Yes

educational and creative workshops

Yes

I like sport activities

Sports Activities Street Activities Sports Activities

In Kumanovo they don't have interesting activities I would like to take part in sports activities and also in street activities Activities by the river bank I would like to be included in school activities Dance activities, activities about drawing graffiti or some street art and music activities.

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Some

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Yes No No

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Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

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Yes Yes

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Activities humanitarian ,activities with the foreign volunteer and youth exchanged Yes

Some

Extremely

Yes

I would like to do more sports

Yes

Some

Extremely

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Some

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Some

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Yes

Extremely

Yes

Some

Yes

Some

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Yes

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Sports Activities

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Some

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Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

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Sports activities

Yes

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I live with 3 more roommates in Skopje (financially supported by my parents).

Age

School Attendance

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Parents Jobs

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ALB Economics

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ALB Economics

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ALB Economics