Balkan Children&Youth Foundation is announcing a new deadline for the Balkan Youth Partnership Program and additional information. The Balkan Youth Partnership Program provides opportunities for representatives from child- and youth-serving NGOs in different Balkan countries to visit organizations and institutions in order to improve the activity of their organization, increase their efficiency and create better conditions for youth and children.

The key programmatic areas for information exchange and learning covered by the Partnership Program are: employment, technology, non-formal education, health, civic education and democracy building.

The areas of community service, culture, and the environment are also eligible. In addition, technical areas such as fundraising, sustainability, grantmaking, monitoring and evaluation, and project planning are eligible areas for exchange.

The Partnership Program is open to applicants from child- and youth-serving NGOs in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia.

Applicants should be aged 18 or over.

They should possess a certain level of experience in program development and be in a position to influence programming in their own organization based on what they learn during the exchange.

The applicant organization should send no more than two participants.

If you are interested go to www.balkanyouth.org and you will find guidelines and application form.

Download Application Form (Word format - return this completed form as an email attachment)

The deadline is January 26h, 2003.