WeB4YES

About the project

WeB4YES – Western Balkan Civil Society Organisations for Youth Employment Support is a regional initiative focused on strengthening intersectoral cooperation in order to support unemployed youth in the Western Balkans and come up with innovative solutions for employability and employment. The goal of the initiative is to empower civil society organisations to contribute to addressing unemployment, improving the conditions for youth entrepreneurship through advocating and monitoring at the local, state and regional level.

In order to establish a sustainable platform for a dialogue among civil society organisations, government representatives and the business and academic communities on employment and entrepreneurship policies and to promote an intersectoral approach in these areas, the initiative intends to establish youth employment forums in every participating country. The initiative recognized the most important stakeholders whose work, experience and expertise can help address the challenges currently present in these areas.

The Institute for Youth Development KULT founded a Forum on (self-)employment of youth in BiH, comprising 26 representatives of the academic community, the NGO sector, government and the private sector with experience relevant to youth employment and entrepreneurship. The Forum consists of the following:

Labour and Employment Agency of BiH

Bit Alliance

BIT Business Innovation and Technology PARK

Bolji posao d.o.o.

Faculty of Economy of the University in Tuzla, Department of Management and Administration

Federal Institute for Development Programming

Foundation 787

Foundation INFOHOUSE

Foundation Mozaik

Institute for Youth Development KULT

INTERA Technology Park Mostar

JU Employment Service of Sarajevo Canton

JU Employment Service of the Central Bosnia Canton

JU Employment Service of the Una-Sana Canton

Ministry of Civil Affairs of BiH, Sector for Education – Department for Youth and Mobility

Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth of Tuzla Canton

Youth Communication Centre (OKC)

Youth Council of Republika Srpska

PRONI Centre for Youth Development

Regional Youth Cooperation Office BiH

SPARK Business Park d.o.o.

Association „Kupujmo i koristimo domaće“ (“Buy and Use Domestic Products”)

Association Independent Office for Development

Employers’ Association of FBiH

Association for Entrepreneurship and Business LiNK Mostar

Youth Council of FBiH

The main coordinator of the initiative is the Belgrade Open School (Serbia), and partners of the initiative, in addition to the Institute for Youth Development KULT, are Association for Democratic Prosperity – ZID (Crna Gora), NGO Lens (Kosovo), Association Beyond Barriers (Albania), National Youth Council of Macedonia and the Olof Palme International Center in Sweden.

The WeB4YES initiative will be implemented until the end of 2020 and is supported by the European Commission as a part of the programme “Empowering Civil Society and Media 2016-2017, of the Regional Thematic Network of Civil Society Organisations”.

Contact information of project staff:

Ajka Rovčanin

tel.: + 387 33 778 761

e-mail: ajka.rovcanin@kultbih.org

Ada Hamidović

tel.: +387 33 778 762

e-mail: ada.hamidovic@kultbih.org