Norway's Fredskorpset Youth Program : Study of selected exchange projects
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Working Paper, NUPI nr 670. NUPI, 2004Sammendrag
The Fredskorpset Youth program is a North-South exchange program
facilitating the exchange of young people between partner organizations or institutions of
Norway and countries of the South. The present study was commissioned in order to
assess the degree to which stated goals of the exchanges were realized. Four exchanges were
selected to be studied: between a Norwegian and Kenyan student organization (AIESEC);
between a Norwegian missionary organization (NMS) and its counterpart church in
Madagascar (FLM); between local Red Cross organizations in Norway and Uganda; and
between a Norwegian (VUC) and two Malawian teacher training institutions (CC, LTTC).
Objectives of the programs included acquiring new knowledge, attitudes and commitment
at the level of individual participants, organizational strengthening and development of
international contacts at the institutional level, and dissemination of information. As goals
were mostly quite loosely formulated, it was difficult to assess the degree to which they
were realized with any precision. Findings varied between the exchanges, but in general
individual objectives were reached to some extent, while results might have been even
stronger with more systematic attention to them. Institutional goals were achieved in most
of the cases. In terms of information dissemination, this could be strengthened in most of
the exchange programs.
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