Youth Participation Project: project structure

In order for you to understand the following entries I just want to make a brief outline of our project. I’ll do so in a dry, non-humoristic, but all the more informative way:
YFP as an organization based in Phnom Penh that organizes workshops and village dialogues all over the country. The Battambang branch of the organization called “Youth Participation Project” (YPP) is something of an anomaly in this context. It was established with the explicitly for the cooperation with the DED and the German volunteers arriving via that partner.
Last year seven German volunteers and an equal number of counterparts manned the project. However, there were reportedly some problems with overlapping competences and failing communications. Therefore, the project was reduced in size and the competences were clearly divided among three Teams, each of which was to consist of a Khmer and a German volunteer. The teams are as follows:

• Communication and Publication Team (CPT)
o Collecting information about all YFP activities as well as activities of other NGOs in Battambang.
o Publishing regular newsletter, advertisements and web-entries.
o Contacting other NGOs in order to cooperate with them, profit from their activities and offer them to profit from YPP’s.

• Training Team (TT)
o Organizing and providing Trainings to youths in the target area about subjects such as Good Governance, Human Rights, Environment, Domestic Violence etc.
o Facilitating trainings by guest speakers and inviting the guests.
o Organizing a mobile library to visit the villages.

• Advocacy Team (AdT)
o Creating and maintaining a youth network in the target area.
o Furthering participation of youths in the workings of the commune council.
o Organizing Forums in which youths have opportunity to meet with and ask questions to a local authority.
o Organizing field trips about different subjects and organizing actions on special occasions such as the Human Rights Day (10th of December).

The administrative work and the coordination of the Teams is the responsibility of Piseth, our project official. Every second week a Team meeting will be held to coordinate and synchronize activities.