- Introduction
General presentation and scope of the kit
(It is designed to serve both LYMEC and MO’s in their organizational development; contains important information and tools for new youth political organizations, but also there a methods and new creative ideas for organizations that strive to improve their impact on young people.)
- Organization, structure and statutes
- basic facts about the political youth organizations
- different options of how to organize a political youth organization
- structures have to fit with the local environment: there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution
- recommendable principles of efficient organization and transparent structures
- Programmatic work and decision making process
- fundamental values and principles of Liberalism and their concrete meaning for the political work
- examples and applications of these principles based on the work experiences of fellow MO’s
- different ways of formation of opinions and the decision making processes within an organization
- the importance of a democratic decision making process
- Campaigning
- targeting the right audience
- different thematic and electoral campaigning methods and techniques
- delivering and spreading a political message
- door to door campaign
- Recruitment and motivation of membership
- discover the similar problems of rising interest and attention of the youth for political questions and activities in many countries
- experiences and new ideas on how to motivate new activists, new members and re-motivate passive members of the organization
- Relation towards mother party /mother organization
- different models and approaches on how to form a relationship with a mother party / organization
- the close or loose relations and the advantages and disadvantages of these different concepts
- Funding and finances
- the importance of an independent budget for the work of their organization
- different options of raising funds for the political work and new ideas and approaches to generate income
- experiences in how to organize the financial affairs of a political youth organization
- Legal framework
- different legal constraints, government restrictions and similar problems in the political work
- strategies on how to deal with and how to overcome such difficulties
- Strategic planning
- fundamentals of strategic thinking and the importance of a strategic approach in organization’s work
- basics of the strategic planning and overview of different planning techniques
- implementation and application of planning tools in a practical context
- Political education and training
- liberal academies, institutes, foundations and political training centers
- Other instruments and experiences from MO’s
- different other materials and topics that not fall into above categories
- international (e.g. IFLRY) and regional (e.g. LYMEC, YLDA, …) liberal political youth organizations/networks existing and how to benefit from these organizations
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Every folder of the Tool kit will include a note with useful links to manuals, brochures, books, articles, videos, movies, presentations, etc. on that specific topic.
