On March 13-14, the National Youth Forum was held under the title “Successful Youth and Sustainable Civil Society Organizations: Key to Successful and Sustainable Development”.
The main goal of the Forum is to disseminate and demonstrate the results of the ProYouth project in order to create conditions for the sustainability of its results, discuss the approach and methodology used, best practices, lessons learned, a multilateral platform for youth involvement, and to present the developed mechanisms for implementing the strategy of youth policy.
During the Forum were held panel discussions, where the report was made by Jürgen Burks, team leader of the project “Entrepreneurship and Startup Promotion”, PEM Consult.
During his speech, Juergen Burks presented how Integrated Rural Development Project/TRIGGER supports startups in Tajikistan and shared practical experience of entrepreneurial startup support.
The forum was organized by a project team led by Hilfswerk International of Austria in cooperation with the Committee on Youth and Sports, the Union of Professional Advisors of Tajikistan (SPKT) and the Public Organization “MIR – Markazi Imkonyat Bahri Rushd” and funded by the European Union and the Austrian Development Agency.