6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa
6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa
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Table 18: <strong>Youth</strong> work <strong>in</strong> Norway<br />
64<br />
Data base Instituti<strong>on</strong>s Activities Funds <strong>Youth</strong> workers Volunteers Participants<br />
Norway Survey<br />
Young <strong>in</strong><br />
Norway<br />
(2002)<br />
(N=11298)<br />
Norwegian<br />
Associati<strong>on</strong><br />
of <strong>Youth</strong><br />
Clubs survey<br />
(2003)<br />
Frif<strong>on</strong>d<br />
The<br />
Distributi<strong>on</strong><br />
Committee<br />
Statistics<br />
Norway<br />
450 youth clubs<br />
442 child<br />
welfare services<br />
19 youth<br />
<strong>in</strong>formati<strong>on</strong><br />
centres<br />
116 nati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
child and youth<br />
organisati<strong>on</strong>s<br />
with 13,000 local<br />
branches and<br />
2,750<br />
<strong>in</strong>dependent<br />
organisati<strong>on</strong>s<br />
49 sports<br />
organisati<strong>on</strong>s<br />
receiv<strong>in</strong>g funds<br />
for child and<br />
youth work with<br />
16801 local<br />
branches<br />
No<br />
representativ<br />
e data about<br />
all youth<br />
work<br />
activities<br />
31,900<br />
traceable<br />
activities of<br />
youth work<br />
<strong>in</strong> 2005.<br />
Am<strong>on</strong>g them<br />
15%<br />
activities of<br />
cultural<br />
youth work<br />
34% youth<br />
associati<strong>on</strong>s<br />
and groups<br />
50% youth<br />
sports<br />
€ 22,000,000 <strong>in</strong> 2007 for<br />
youth sports<br />
€ 26,000,000 <strong>in</strong> 2006 for<br />
child and youth<br />
organisati<strong>on</strong>s<br />
Total public spend<strong>in</strong>g for<br />
child welfare services €<br />
540,000,000<br />
Child and youth<br />
organisati<strong>on</strong>s (<strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g<br />
sports) receive around<br />
0.05% of the state budget.<br />
Little data<br />
available,<br />
especially for<br />
youth workers<br />
<strong>in</strong> public<br />
organisati<strong>on</strong>s.<br />
In 70% of the<br />
youth clubs<br />
the sum of<br />
part-time and<br />
full-time<br />
employees<br />
adds up to two<br />
or less fulltime<br />
positi<strong>on</strong>s.<br />
700,000<br />
volunteers <strong>in</strong><br />
sports<br />
organisati<strong>on</strong>s.<br />
Their<br />
c<strong>on</strong>tributi<strong>on</strong><br />
adds up to<br />
about 24,000<br />
full-time jobs.<br />
61% of all 13- to 19year-olds<br />
participate<br />
at least <strong>in</strong> <strong>on</strong>e<br />
voluntary<br />
organisati<strong>on</strong> (64%<br />
males, 58% of<br />
females).<br />
14% participate <strong>in</strong><br />
cultural youth work<br />
(17% of females,<br />
11% of males).<br />
14% participate <strong>in</strong><br />
recreati<strong>on</strong>al youth<br />
work (22% of<br />
males, 10% of<br />
females).<br />
9% participate <strong>in</strong><br />
youth clubs.<br />
7% participate <strong>in</strong><br />
political,<br />
humanitarian and<br />
envir<strong>on</strong>ment<br />
protecti<strong>on</strong><br />
organisati<strong>on</strong>s (8%<br />
of males and<br />
females).<br />
50% of 13-year-olds<br />
participate <strong>in</strong> sports<br />
(55% male, 45%<br />
female).<br />
The number<br />
decl<strong>in</strong>es as children<br />
get older: for 19year-olds<br />
it is 26%<br />
(32% of males and<br />
21% of females).<br />
In Romania there are 455 youth associati<strong>on</strong>s operat<strong>in</strong>g and 43 county youth departments.<br />
The departments are resp<strong>on</strong>sible for the implementati<strong>on</strong> of the Nati<strong>on</strong>al Authority for <strong>Youth</strong><br />
policy. They distribute the f<strong>in</strong>ancial resources at local level. They also operate 65 summer<br />
camps and 26 youth hostels. In 2007 an amount of € 2,630,500 was allocated to f<strong>in</strong>ance<br />
youth clubs and <strong>in</strong>dividual programmes. Approximately 40% of the budget was used to fund<br />
youth clubs. 97,823 participants were <strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong> the projects f<strong>in</strong>anced with this budget.<br />
There is no analytical data about the type of youth work provided with the whole budget but<br />
<strong>in</strong> 2007 we can trace that emphasis is given to cultural youth educati<strong>on</strong>, courses and tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g<br />
and to youth <strong>in</strong>formati<strong>on</strong>. Accord<strong>in</strong>g to a study d<strong>on</strong>e <strong>in</strong> 2002, there were 160 youth workers<br />
operat<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> Romania. 96 of them were paid youth workers, and there were 64 volunteers, so<br />
that the ratio between paid youth workers and volunteers is 1.5:1. 36% of them were<br />
employed <strong>in</strong> the public sector, 59% <strong>in</strong> the n<strong>on</strong>-governmental sector, and 11% <strong>in</strong> students<br />
organisati<strong>on</strong>s. 70% of the staff of youth associati<strong>on</strong>s are volunteers. Accord<strong>in</strong>g to a study<br />
d<strong>on</strong>e <strong>in</strong> 2005, 9% of Romanian young people are members <strong>in</strong> associati<strong>on</strong>s, particularly <strong>in</strong><br />
sports, political and professi<strong>on</strong>al (students) organisati<strong>on</strong>s.