“The way to measure excellence in youth participation with adults is the extent to which the young participants feel ownership of the project on which they are working and, equally, the extent to which the adult participants feel satisfied by the contribution made by the young people.”
Welcome to Co-Management – A Practical Guide. This website is a result of a grant from the European Commission to enable five well-known European Youth NGOs explore ‘how to achieve excellence in youth participation at a local level.’ The result of our reflections is that the idea of Co-management developed by the Council of Europe is the best way to achieve that excellence. So, in this website, we set out to answer the following questions
• What is Co-management?
• Why is it important?
• How does it work?
• How do I get started?
• Where can intergenerational co-management operate effectively – and how?
Co-management is the best way for youth and older people to work together to make schools, youth groups, youth projects
and other community events brilliant and appealing to all sectors of society. Everybody talks about ‘youth participation’- as though older people patting youth on the
head, listening nicely to what the youth say and then going off to do exactly what they want – is enough! For most young people, it is not. They want to go further.
Co-management delivers the kind of shared ownership they seek. It is Elders and Young People Becoming Equal Partners. Our hypothesis is that the way to measure excellence
in co-management is the extent to which the young participants feel ownership of the project on which they are working and, equally, the extent to which the older participants
feel satisfied by the contribution made by the young people.
