Building the Western Saharan Civil Society of Tomorrow Länsi-Saharan tulevaisuuden tekijät - hajaannuksesta kohti kansalaisyhteiskuntaa The project will continue the activities started in 2014 aimed at strengthening the Western Saharan civil society and processes of democratic and peaceful conflict resolution. The target group is Sahrawi youth that live dispersed in different areas: occupi
ed territories under Moroccan rule refugee camps in Algeria and diaspora mostly in Algeria and Europe. This dispersed group lacks the connections necessary to build a united civil society movement.The first objective of the project is to increase the youth
 participants? knowledge about democracy and political participation and increase their capacity in advocacy and networking. The project also strengthens networks between the Sahrawi youth and the youths? connections to civil society actors. The third obje
ctive is to increase partner's capacity to continue organising  the activities after the project. The last objective is to establish relationships of international solidarity and to support peer-to-peer-exchange between Sahrawi and Finnish youth. The activ
ities of the continuation project are divided into four main activity types. In the first activity type  facilitators? training for youth leading the workshops as well as training for the project partner in participatory methods will be carried out as a pa
rt of the capacity-building of the partner.  The second will comprise of the five workshops organised around the themes of democracy rule of law human rights and the building of civil society activities. The third will involve peer-to-peer models aimed at 
distributing the learned results and therefore broadening and deepening discussion on workshop themes. This part will also include monitoring of peer-to-peer activities through communications fora created by participants and Finnish project volunteers. Fin
ally the fourth activity type will involve the strengthening of networking within Western Saharan civil society by bringing together Sahrawi and external civil society and organisation actors present in the camps during a final seminar that will close each
 workshop.The training and workshop activities will take place at the refugee camps in Tindouf. Peer-to-peer distribution activities will happen in all different locations where the youth live and in addition between the Sahrawi youth and Finns. The project will continue the activities started in 2014 that strengthen the Western Saharan (Sahrawi) civil society and processes of democratic and peaceful conflict resolution. The target group is Sahrawi youth that live dispersed in different areas: occ
upied territories under Moroccan rule refugee camps in Algeria and diaspora mostly in Algeria and Europe. Project partner is Western Saharan student umbrella organisation UESARIO. Together we will organise workshops for Western Saharan youth in the camps o
ccupied territories and diaspora.The first objective of the project is to increase the youth participants? knowledge about democracy political participation rule of law and gender equality and increase their capacity in advocacy and networking. Project str
engthens beneficiaries commitment to peaceful solution of Western Saharan conflict. The project builds networks between the Sahrawi youth and improves their connections to other civil society actors. The third objective is to increase partner's capacity to
 continue organising the activities after the project. The last objective is to establish relationships of international solidarity and to peer-to-peer-exchange between Sahrawi and Finnish youth. The activities of the continuation project are divided into 
four main activity types. Firstly  facilitators? training for youth leading the workshops will be carried out as a part of the capacity-building of the partner. The second activity consists of six workshops. The third will involve peer-to-peer models aimed
 at distributing the results and broadening and deepening discussion on workshop themes. This part will also include monitoring of peer-to-peer activities through communications fora created by participants and Finnish project volunteers. Finally the fourt
h activity type will involve the strengthening of networks within Western Saharan civil society by bringing together both Sahrawi and international civil society organisations present in the camps.The training and workshop activities will take place at the
 refugee camps in Tindouf.