It aims to empower the youth work community of practice with knowledge, strategies and tools for effective advocacy, to promote the value of youth work and support its long-term development. The A-Kit is built upon European policy frameworks and standards.

The A-Kit is designed to support users in identifying an issue in relation to youth work that they would like to address, to assess whether advocacy is a suitable method and if the answer is yes, to offer practical know-how and tools to support their advocacy efforts.
 

The Advocacy Kit aims to support users by offering:

• a practical advocacy toolbox to the youth work community of practice. It provides a set of offline and online tools for youth workers, organisations and policy makers to support youth work development and recognition in their respective countries. It helps to ensure that youth work is recognised, supported, and made widely available;
• a resource for competence development on advocacy and communicating about youth work. It provides advocacy planning templates, and guidelines, as well as inspirational case studies and useful evidence-based arguments for youth work;
• an adaptable-to-context approach to advocacy for youth work development and recognition. It includes adaptable tools that can be tailored to national contexts, contributing to youth work advocacy in countries with a range of emerging to established youth work structures;
• a support to youth work visibility and collaboration between youth work practice, policy and research, as well as cross-sectoral. It refers to related policy instruments of the European institutions and to the Youth Partnership’s existing tools.
   

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