“Without civil society, change will just not happen” said Neal Walker, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative at the 6^th Civil Society Development Forum held in Kyiv on November 16-17, 2017.

 'Be the change that you wish to see in the world’, called for by Mahatma Gandhi. And it is active youth that is responsible for making positive changes real in their communities.

How do you implement local initiatives in cooperation with the authorities? Why is it often difficult to implement the decisions of public hearings and general meetings of citizens? How do you organize a successful advocacy campaign?

 The Association for the Promotion of Self-Organization of the Population has launched a new project “Public support for the implementation of the National Strategy for Civil Society Development 2016-2020 at the Regional Level”.

Can a young person with an idea really create social change for democracy and human rights in Ukraine?

Is that possible for human rights and civil society activists raise voices of those, whose rights are oppressed, to the highest level internationally?