Youth and community empowerment in Europe / Peter Evans and Angelika Krüger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Peter, 1924-

Contributor:

Kruger, Angelika.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community power--Europe.

Community power.

Youth with social disabilities--Services for--Europe.

Youth with social disabilities.

Youth with social disabilities--Services for.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xxv, 196 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Chicago : Policy Press, 2012.

Summary:

The current economic crisis with its gloomy implications for lost generations leaves many disadvantaged young people with ever-diminishing opportunities. The Youth Empowerment Partnership Programme (YEPP) is a fully evaluated on-going international programme focused on disadvantaged areas in eight European countries. It aims to empower young people and the communities in which they live by making them central to new decision-making processes involving partnerships between public, private and independent sectors. This book provides the theoretical context for the programme, gives a full account of the process and outcomes of over 10 years of joint effort in its unique development and research process and reflects on the lessons learnt for future policy. It will appeal to practitioners, researchers, policy-makers and decision-makers in foundations. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: the theoretical context of the YEPP approach 1

The community development approach 1

Empowerment and partnership in YEPP 5

Non-negotiable key features of YEPP 11

2 YEPP I: implementation 13

The YEPP Concept of Change in practice 13

The evaluation design 15

3 YEPP I: key changes in YEPP Local Programme Sites 19

Well-implemented sites 19

Partly implemented sites 46

The newcomer 74

4 YEPP I: meeting the goals 83

The extent to which YEPP's 10 non-negotiable principles were adhered to 85

How far the principal features of YEPP's research structure were implemented 85

A summary of summaries 94

Further discussion of YEPP I 95

The methodology used 97

So does YEPP work - does it cause change? 98

5 YEPP II: learning from YEPP I 101

YEPP11:2007-11 101

Strategies for YEPP II in response to lessons learnt 101

6 YEPP II: portraits and overall programme outcomes 121

The remaining YEPP I sites 121

Expanding YEPP within countries 143

Cooperation across a national frontier 146

Including Roma in Slovakia 149

Interim evaluation 2009 151

7 YEPP I and II: conclusions and policy implications 161

Conclusions 161

Policy implications 171.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781447305910

1447305914

OCLC:

814448322