Experiences youth workers know how they can contribute to the development of their organisation and to making policies / programmes work better for young people. During the years the competence comes to the youth worker, so he/she can find the way to make this contribution. How we see it:

 COMPETENCE 7.1 Actively involve young people in shaping their organisation’s policies and programmes

This involves:

• Knowledge: organisational management and development, policies and programmes of the organisation
• Skills: needs analysis, democratic leadership, active listening, participatory decision-making
• Attitudes and values: transparency, personal initiative

 COMPETENCE 7.2 Co-operate with others to shape youth policies

This involves:

• Knowledge: youth policy concepts, actors and mechanisms at different levels (local through European)
• Skills: communication, networking, co-operation, partnership building, democratic leadership, advocacy, public speaking, presentation
• Attitudes and values: willingness to partner with other actors, curiosity, open-mindedness, patience, tolerance of ambiguity, personal initiative