generalized PPT on Youth Bank

1. Youth Bank Armenia
…a change in one life
is a change in the country’s future…

2. Some myths about young people
1. Young people want to be engaged in 1. Young people want to have fun and spend
civic activism time interesting; fu
2. Young people need skills to become 2. Young people need to see active friends to
active become active and become a part of a
3. Young people want to build better group
communities 3. Young people want to live a better life
4. Young people want to solve 4. Young people like to be a part of a change
problems 5. Young people like to be empowered and
5. Young people need to be mentored trusted
6. Young people want to be decision- 6. Young people want to be heard, have a
makers ‘say’’
7. Young people want to learn and 7. Young people enjoy traveling, making
apply best practices new friends and trying new things
8. Young people want to be leaders 8. Young people like to be popular, and to
9. Young people are cooperative have visibility of good actions
10. Young people want to be in tune 9. Young people are in permanent
with time (social, political, competition
technological developments) 10. Young people want to be ahead of the
time and the developments, they want to
‘set the rhythm ‘of progress

3. What programs need to know
• Youth respond to programs that promote positive outcomes:
improved behaviors, new attitudes, and relationships;
belonging to new areas of social life
• Youth are more likely to attend programs that build their
networks and skills with promise of better employment
possibilities
• Youth programs need measures that will work among diverse
populations and are meaningful for youth of all social groups:
urban and rural, with foreign language skills and non, educated
and non educated.
• Youth work better in groups – when diverse skills are
combined, and responsibilities match their abilities;
• Program designs should take into consideration factors
leading to: motivation, space for creativity, freedom of choice
and fair recognition and intuitive flexibility.

4. Youth Bank Armenia – the real change!
• Helps to change the
lives of the young
people from having no
way of doing anything
interesting, learning
and moving up the
stairs of life…
• into active and
confident ‘drivers’ of
change, who
participate in shaping
the country’s future
through their own
actions

5. How to get started with Youth Bank
• Selection of Host Organizations: NGOs, Schools,
Community Centers
• Announcement of open call for volunteers - YB members
• Selection of 5-7 YB committee members,
• Start up workshop with the Community Foundation for
Northern Ireland and Senior YB members
• Form a team
• Development of an Action Plan for grant-making
• Begin the work….

6. The steps of the YouthBank work
• Needs Assessments (surveys, meetings, interviews)
• Setting criteria and priorities for grant-making
• PR activities – Radio, local newspapers, posters, community events,
schools/colleges, meetings
• Proposal review – Screening/Interview/Scoring
• Community Award Ceremonies
• Saying YES and NO to proposals
• Contracts
• Project implementation
• Monitoring of projects
• Report Writing
On-going:
• Fundraising for projects; volunteer, community work; additional skills
building; presentations during local conferences, joint action with other
civic active youth, appearance in local media, Internet actions, TV.

7. The steps of the YouthBank work

8. The steps of the YouthBank work

9. New skills all the time

10. Youth led micro projects

11. Youth led micro projects

12. Youth Bank Armenia – for communities and people!
creates grounds for far more
young people to get involved
and become civically active
 1300 proposals reviewed by 88 YBers
 139 youth-led community and
european grants funded
 More than 1000 young people
implemented projects with 3000
volunteers across country
 75 volunteer projects
 Successful fundraising
 Competitive jobs
 Participation in study abroad
programs
due to the ‘’competence
package’’ inherited
from YB work.

13. Youth Achievements!
• YB members raise local funds, attain co-funding from local sources, engage in
charity and volunteer activity outside the scope of grant-making (English language
training for kinder-garten, sports club started by YB grant making 400 USD
monthly, Food Bank charity action in 2 towns helped 49 families with food at
Easter holidays with the help of 42 volunteers, more than 70 examples of
trainings attended, etc). Yerevan YB members were able to raise 270 USD from
National Assembly speaker to match “Karmir Blur” historic reserve cleaning
project. Gyumri YB was able to raise 250 USD from local people to match an
Amasia village fountain-repair project. Vayots Dzor YB members were able to
generate village chief to support the local tourism promotion project by installing
drinking water pipeline in the area of Karaglukh old chapel. German Embassy,
British Council, Counterpart International, The British Chamber have provided
around 5000 USD each to various YB projects.
• Personal development: World Vision, Orange Telecom, VivaCell, Custom, banks,
schools, NGOs, they get accepted in study abroad programs, cooperate with
NGOs, set up their own NGOs and networks, build up a successful career, due to
the ‘’competence package’’ inherited from YB work.

14. Youth Banks: promote volunteerism
YBs learn to take initiative, enjoy giving and cultivate the culture of philanthropy

15. Youth Banks: promote volunteerism

16. Youth Banks: promote volunteerism
“… In the process we
learned that the rich do
not give, those who care-
give most, and we can’t
wait to reach the rich, we
do what we can do today”,-
says Gyumri YB member
Luiza Petrosyan

17. Youth Bank helps to break through the barriers: cross-
border work with Azerbaijan , Georgia and Turkey
“If I served in the army
and I knew, that young
boys like my friend
Turan , are on the other
side of the border, all I’d
think is: ‘when will this
conflict come to a final
end’’
Vladimir Shatverov, Gyumri
YB)

18. Youth Bank in Social Media

19. Youth Bank in Armenia promoting European
Youth Values
Eurasia P artnership Foundation intoduces
the “H ello Europe’’ publication and the
Youth B ank announces youth-led grant
competition to promote E uropean youth
values in Armenia’s communities

20. The Geography of Youth Bank
• Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan – by EPF
• Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan – by EFCA
• Moldova – EEF
• UK, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Slovenia,
Bosnia, Belgium, Poland, Germany, Palestine,
Russian Federation- Ural, Latvia, - plans for
Serbia and more…

21. Plans: to build on rather than move
on…
• Strengthen active citizenship and strong
networks of young people
• Apply Youth Bank for conflict transformation:
Armenia-Azerbaijan-Georgia expand to Turkey,
Abkhazia, and more…
• Strengthen community work, philanthropy,
personal development, sharing across countries
• Develop partnerships and networks (including
internet-based and social capital)
• Strengthen skills on a new variety of areas:
environmental protection, human rights,
entrepreneurship, elections, etc.
• Good skills for a good cause…
and better futures for all….

22. How to support YB in Armenia
EPF welcomes contributions to the Youth Bank Program from both institutional and
individual donors. Because each grant awarded by a Youth Bank averages only
$500, even small contributions can have a powerful impact on rural Armenian
youth:
• $500 will fund one community project, awarded by a Youth Bank committee to a
group of their peers
• $2,500 will fund one Youth Bank committee’s portfolio of projects in one region
• $5,000 will fund two Youth Bank committee’s portfolio of projects
• $15,000 will fund the operation of one rural Youth Bank committee, including
supplies, training on awarding and monitoring grants, travel to networking
meetings among Youth Bank participants, and other associated costs
• $25,000 will fund the operation of 10 rural Youth Bank committees, including
grants to small-scale youth-led community initiatives. Around 5 projects can be
funded in each of the 10 regions.
• $75,000 will fund a one-years full operations of the Youth Bank project, according
to a renewed strategy, 3-4 capacity building workshops for youth, including
administrative expenses and community grants fund.

23. Contacts in Armenia
Eurasia Partnership Foundation Armenia
Zarobyan 56, Yerevan
+ 374-10- 58-60-95
www.epfound.am, www.youthbank.am
E-mail: gmkrtchyan@epfound.am