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Ministry of Youth and Sports aims to decrease departure of young people
Belgrade,
10 October 2007
Serbian Minister of Youth and Sports Snezana Samardzic-Markovic said today at the opening of the conference, “Road to Youth Policy” that the vision of the ministry is to reduce the number of young people leaving their surroundings.
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Fonet
Samardzic-Markovic said that young people in Serbia are a particularly sensitive group since they grew up in isolation, surrounded by violence and exposed to images of war.
According to Samardzic-Markovic, reducing the number of young people leaving Serbia and moving from smaller places to larger cities inside the country could be possible by raising the standard of living for the youth in every part of Serbia.
She stressed that her ministry firmly believes that a youth policy is an agreement between the state and the youth which should arise from a partnership between the government, the non-governmental sector and the youth.
She said that without active participation by the youth there can be no successful strategy for the youth and added that the national strategy will be the result of a wide consultative process on the national, regional and local level.
Representatives of the government, non-governmental sector, business, media and experts in the area of youth policy will take part in this process, said Samardzic-Markovic and explained that the purpose in including the governmental sector is to secure institutional support for this question of national importance.
At the conference, which is being organised in cooperation with the Forum Syd Balkans Programme (FSBP), leading principles in the development of a youth policy were presented, from the local to the European level.
The aim of the conference is to define experiences until now in the process of including the young in the drafting of local development policies, with special emphasis on including sensitive and marginalised groups.
The conference is intended for organisations and institutions which implement programmes for the youth, such as youth associations, representatives of local self-governments and development agencies.
According to Samardzic-Markovic, reducing the number of young people leaving Serbia and moving from smaller places to larger cities inside the country could be possible by raising the standard of living for the youth in every part of Serbia.
She stressed that her ministry firmly believes that a youth policy is an agreement between the state and the youth which should arise from a partnership between the government, the non-governmental sector and the youth.
She said that without active participation by the youth there can be no successful strategy for the youth and added that the national strategy will be the result of a wide consultative process on the national, regional and local level.
Representatives of the government, non-governmental sector, business, media and experts in the area of youth policy will take part in this process, said Samardzic-Markovic and explained that the purpose in including the governmental sector is to secure institutional support for this question of national importance.
At the conference, which is being organised in cooperation with the Forum Syd Balkans Programme (FSBP), leading principles in the development of a youth policy were presented, from the local to the European level.
The aim of the conference is to define experiences until now in the process of including the young in the drafting of local development policies, with special emphasis on including sensitive and marginalised groups.
The conference is intended for organisations and institutions which implement programmes for the youth, such as youth associations, representatives of local self-governments and development agencies.
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