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YEREVAN, JULY 28, ARMENPRESS: “Community Youth Policy” project will be conducted in the town of Sevan the main goal of which is to promote the participation of young people on community levels. The project has been approved still a year ago by the Council of Elders of Sevan and will soon launch.
CEO of the “Powerful Society” Foundation, member of the prime minister-affiliated national youth policy council Ashot Hakobyan told Armenpress that one of the prior steps of the program is to gather the active young people of the community – creating a youth initiative team and an affiliated program of actions.
“In our country and particularly in provinces, unfortunately, the young people are more passive and see the country’s governance processes outside of them. In this direction serious steps are being undertaken by the Armenian government,” Ashot Hakobyan said. As a result of the program the community has a youth policy adopted by the Council of Elders and a program of actions – as a part of the strategic program of the community. The project is being implemented not only in Sevan, but in Hrazdan where it has been worked out recently and sent to the approval of the Council of Elders.
“Young people are voicing community issues which need to be solved and then in a project present the solutions to the issues,” the CEO of the foundation said, adding that the project presented by the young people is being put to public discussion at a forum with the participation of the Council of Elders of the community, community office, different enterprises, civic society and mass media representatives. After implementing the suggestions received at the forum, the document is being finalized and presented for the approval of the Council of Elders as a part of the strategic program of development of the community.-