{"id":62,"date":"2021-04-08T14:37:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T14:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jos.world\/yfj-policy\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2022-10-05T11:22:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T11:22:05","slug":"strong-youth-organisations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/strong-youth-organisations\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Youth Organisations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The European Youth Forum owes its existence, legitimacy, and credibility as the representative voice of young people in Europe to its Member Organisations. The more than a hundred organisations that comprise the European Youth Forum, together, are the backbone of the platform, and through their own activities and advocacy work, they strengthen the Youth Forum\u2019s capacity to have a positive impact on society in Europe and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Youth organisations play a significant role in promoting better societies. By taking part in their activities, young people develop skills, competences, and values. Being themselves of a voluntary and participatory nature, youth organisations help to mainstream a culture of participation. They are also the best positioned to reach out to more diverse young people, and thus promote more peaceful and inclusive societies. Through youth work, non-formal education activities and volunteering, youth organisations play an essential role in the lifelong learning process, where young people can develop critical thinking and become actors of change in building more sustainable societies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They face a variety of challenges and threats however, making it difficult for them to operate and, sometimes, survive. This makes it imperative for the European Youth Forum to focus on ensuring they have the resources and capacity to address these challenges, to continue working and running activities, and to thrive.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Youth Forum owes its existence, legitimacy, and credibility as the representative voice of young people in Europe to its Member Organisations. The more than a hundred organisations that comprise the European Youth Forum, together, are the backbone of the platform, and through their own activities and advocacy work, they strengthen the Youth Forum\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-policy-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,25,27,24,28,29,26],"class_list":["post-62","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-erasmus","category-funding","category-recognition","category-safeguarding-civic-space","category-volunteering","category-youth-policy","category-youth-work"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}