Sexualised violence and protection concepts in international youth work

Aims & objectives

The safety and protection of young people is also central to the measures and services offered by international youth work. As part of the project “Prevention of sexualized violence in international youth work”, IJAB is hosting an international workshop in Cologne on 30 November to discuss methods and further develop tools to ensure this protection.
The workshop aims to build on existing protection concepts and develop them further together with young people and international partners in order to strengthen the protection of young people. In joint discussions, visions for the future will be developed on how cross-border cooperation can contribute to the participatory development of protection concepts in international youth work. Around 50 national and international experts will take part.

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

Team: of the University Kassel (Elisabeth Tuider, Thomas Fixemer & Lisa Brauner) and IJAB (Christoph Bruners ) – Fachstelle
für internationale Jugendarbeit der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

The 50 participants were representatives or members of the following organisations:
- Bundesvereinigung Kulturelle Kinder- und Jugendbildung e.V.
• German Youth Hostel Association / National Association for Youth Hiking and Youth Hostels e.V.
• German Sports Youth with in the German Olympic Sports Confederation
• German Youth for Understanding Committee (YFU)
• City of Hanover, Youth and Family Department
• transfer e. V.
• djo - German Youth in Europe Federal Association
• TANDEM - Czech - German Youth Exchange Coordination Centre
• Lambda e. V. youth network
• The Senator for Social Affairs, Youth, Integration and Sport, Department 22, Child and Youth Promotion, Bremen
• Open Door International
• Socio Movens
• Association of German Educational Organizations (AdB)
• German - Turkish Youth Bridge
• QueerExchange
• International Youth Community Services (ijgd)
• German Federal Youth Council
• Franco - German Youth Office (FGYO)
• AJA ( Working group for non - profit youth exchange)
• Fachverband Jugendarbeit/Jugendsozialarbeit Brandenburg e. V.
• Aktion Suehnezeichen Friedensdienste (ASF)
• Service Civil International (SCI) Germany
• BSJ Marburg
• European School "Heinrich- Heine - School"
• IJAB – International Youth Service of the Federal Republic of Germany
• JUGEND für Europa
• ConAct – Coordination Center for German- Israeli Youth Exchange
• German Association of the Holy Land
• Deutsche Chorjugend
(German Choral Youth Association)
• ASC Göttingen of 1846
• IG InitiativGruppe
- Intercultural Encounter and Education
• EIS coaching, educational work
• Georg - Buch - Haus ( youth centre,
Wiesbaden)
• CULTURE GOES EUROPE (CGE)- Sociocultural Initiative Erfurt
• Tafel Deutschland
• Brandenburgische Sportjugend (BSJ, Sports Youth Brandenburg)
• Servicestelle Jugendbeteiligung e.V.
• IHS e.V.
• Working Group Open Doors NRW e.V.
• Sportjugend NRW (Sports Youth NRW)
• Stadtjugendring Stuttgart (Stuttgart City Youth Council)
• IBG Workcamps
• THW Youth (Youth of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief)

Training methods used & main activities

Facilitation of different sessions connected to the event

Moderation of Day 1:
- welcoming words, introduction of the programme and speakers, of the team,
- support for the world café on the topic of "Collaborating on protection and risk in International Youth Work"
- presentation of the 3 sessions on "Risks in different International Youth Work settings"
- conclusion of day 1 and presentation of evening programme and options

Moderation of Day 2:
- welcoming words and presentation of the workshops of day 2
- introduction to the hybrid key note session on “Sexuality- violence - and protection debates in Latin America”
- moderation of the plenary plenum on Developing future perspectives and staying networked.
- conclusion of the event

Outcomes of the activity

Here are more information about the whole project "SchutzJu" and the international workshop integrated in a longer process of reflection from different organisations around the protection against sexual violence in international youth work:
https://ijab.de/en/projects/schutzju-developing-protection-concepts

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

I was moderating and facilitating the whole international conference of 2 days.

I worked on this training for 2 days as a full time trainer.