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The Azerbaijan Youth Fund is a youth-led grant-making program established by Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF) to provide small grants to fund good ideas that young people believe will benefit their local communities. A testament to the project’s success and sustainability, the Ganja Youth Fund is among the first of Azerbaijan’s youth fund committees to obtain external funding and implement a project independently. As winner of the Open Society Institute-Assistance Foundation’s Youth Initiatives competition, the Ganja Youth Fund will receive a $1,000 small grant to implement its Street Law project in Ganja City. Click here to read more.

Previous Work with the Eurasia Partnership Foundation in Azerbaijan.

YouthBank is currently engaged in fulfilling an eighteen month contract with the Eurasia Foundation to facilitate the establishment of five youthfunds in a range of regions in Azerbaijan.

This work began in March 2006 with the delivery of an intensive training programme in Baku involving 35 prospective young-makers as participants.

Delivered by a team drawn from personnel from the Community Foundation YouthBank office and the New Lodge and Ballymena YouthBanks, this work forms part of a wider aspiration on the part of the Eurasia Foundation to nurture the establishment of indigenous philanthropic foundations at locations across the South Caucuses region.

The efforts to create a young people-led funding programme in Azerbaijan were sparked by Eurasia Foundation personnel seeing the potential benefits of youth-led grant-making programmes after attending a workshop on the subject run by the YouthBank NI Co-ordinator at a conference in Athens convened by the European Foundation Centre.

In Azerbaijan there are now five youthfunds based in Quba, Goychay, Ganja, Leukaren and Shaki.

Further training will take place in Baku in mid october 2006 with a small team of young grant- makers from the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland.

A group of young grant-makers from Azerbaijan visited Northern Ireland in 2007 to share experiences with local YouthBanks.

The Eurasia Foundation Azerbaijan Youth Fund Program

2006 Eurasia Foundation and the United Kingdom Launch Azerbaijan Youth Fund