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2. National action strategies and programmes must contain sufficient scope
and competencies for local implementation.
National strategic guidelines and programmes are implemented in regions and
municipal areas. Local actors must accommodate concrete problem complexes and
needs on a local level and be able to test and undertake specially tailored methods
for the realisation of national strategies. These actors must be provided with
sufficient scope for the local implementation of national action strategies which can
be flexibly adapted to local needs. Furthermore, national action plans can only be
effective if sufficient potential is available on a local level. Here the competencies
for project application and local project management must be supported and
strengthened.
3. Action strategies and measures must be developed and implemented
transversally.
The development and implementation of strategies and measures for the
improvement of the situation of young persons in disadvantaged neighbourhoods
is – like the general field of child and youth politics – a cross-functional task which
must be approached transversally. All involved and associated departments such as
education, employment, social integration, migration, urban development and
youth affairs must be involved in the compilation and implementation of national
integration strategies.
4. Action strategies and programmes must be developed and implemented in
partnership.
Additionally, the strategic and participative involvement of all social partners and
actors is imperative. This includes not only youth welfare and youth career services
but also NCOs and small local initiatives, the business sector and employees’
representatives and ultimately the young persons themselves with their families.
5. Measures and programmes must take into consideration and involve the
entire personal sphere and wider environment of children and young
persons.
Measures and programmes for the integration of children and young persons must
involve their entire surrounding environment: childcare, school, professional
training and businesses, infrastructure and transport structure, neighbourhood,
leisure facilities and friends, but also the family. Socio-environmental measures can
aid the development of ideally suited projects for problems within the urban district
without the necessity of selecting an initial target group. These measures examine
the entire social environment of children and young persons in a particular area and
are especially suited to comprehensive integration projects. Target-group based
approaches are suitable for measures directed at specific target groups. On a
European level, both socio-environmental and target-group based approaches have
met with success and these two approaches can therefore be recommended. The
combination of both approaches has proved to have been particularly promising.