National youth program
particularly favourable in the development of youth
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Croatia 2009 National Youth Program
particularly favourable in the development of youth. The ‘‘Public Attitudes towards Non-governmental Organizations’’’ survey (AED, 2005) indicates that young respondees (84.7%) more often report that associations are very or partly useful, unlike the respondees in two older age groups, of which approximately 75% consider that associations are very or partly useful. Young respondees (61.3%) also most frequently consider that associations today are more efficient in their work than five years ago, while middle-aged respondees (55.6%) consider this more rarely, and the oldest respondees (40.8%) most rarely. In addition, young people (61.3%) give most importance to the role the associations have in emphasizing and solving social problems, while middle aged respondees (55.7%) and older (48.4%) consider their role to be somewhat less important. Although the previous citations show that young people express the most positive attitude towards associations, they are less often members of associations (5.7%) than middle-aged respondees (11.5%), and equally often as older respondees (5.5%). What is also visible is that young respondees (41.1%) were more inclined to become involved in the work of an association than the middle-aged (34.0%) and older respondees (25.4%). Regarding the question what would motivate young persons to become involved in the work of a non- 192 governmental organization, the result was that they would be mostly motivated by their own values (M=3.09, on the 1 to 4 scale) and the possibility of acquiring knowledge (M=3.03). They would be somewhat less motivated by the opportunity for self-promotion (M=2.81), and even less by the opportunity to improve their careers (M=2.27) or relations with others (M=2.17). Motivation due to self-protection (e.g. for the feeling of guilt because they are better off than others) would motivate them at least (M=1.90). In citing these results we must bear in mind that these were the responses of population aged between 18 and 30, i.e. that based on these findings we may not conclude about the attitudes of juveniles. In the ‘‘Public Attitudes towards Volunteering’’ survey (Ledić, 2006), 23.1% respondees with volunteering experience are persons under the age of 20, and 41.7% persons at the age from 21 to 35. In Croatia, the Law on Volunteering was adopted, according to which the system of issuing confirmation on volunteering and the state reward for volunteering were established. However, young people are not sufficiently informed about places for volunteering and sometimes they report insufficiency of established mechanisms for appreciating voluntary work, so the space for better informing young people and making them familiar with voluntary work is still open. In order to avoid the excuse ‘‘I can’t influence everything, so I won’t influence anything’’, it is important to motivate young persons to find an area attractive and interesting to them and to make their contribution in this area (Albernaz, 2005). Both children and adults become more inclined to help based on their earlier help and therefore, in order to stimulate youth volunteering, programs are suggested that at the beginning offer short-term, but also enable long-term volunteering activities and offer various areas in order for young people with different preferences to find their areas. Therefore, it is important to establish and promote associations of various profiles, some of which primarily engage in problems young people perceive important. Speaking of European practice of active youth participation, Youth Councils, Youth Advisory Boards and Youth Parliaments represent various structured forms of active youth participation in society, which may be established through election, appointments within youth associations and/or on a voluntary basis. Their mutual goals are: to ensure for young persons free expression of interests and propositions to local and regional self-administrations, to enable authority structures for the counselling with youth on certain issues, to ensure implementation, assessment and monitoring of youth projects and to facilitate the participation of youth in various advisory bodies of local and regional self-administration (Policy and Structures for Youth in the Council of Europe, 2003). Download 0.9 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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