Benefits & Advantages of Membership in the BNCYTP

  By becoming a member of BNCYTP, you are stating that you recognize that only by joining together will we achieve our vision of making Bulgarian region a place in which all children and young people are loved, valued and able to fulfill their potential.

 Membership of the BNCYTP demonstrates your commitment to helping us make a difference in the struggle with one of the most powerful modern criminal industries: trafficking of human beings.

 Concrete advantages of membership include: 

v      Networking Opportunities. An important part of the NGO Network Initiative will be an annual conference that will provide a forum for member organizations to present projects, discuss developments and new trends in their focus areas and explore areas for collaboration. BNCYTP will facilitate relationships between members of our NGO Alliance and our Experts network as appropriate.  

v      Potential funding opportunities. BNCYTP members administers a variety of training and capacity building programs, funded by the European Commission, International development agencies such as USAID, the IFC and the World Bank. We anticipate that there will be opportunities for institutional partnerships based on such projects. We believe that BNCYTP members would be an invaluable resource in crafting proposals and effectively carrying out programs.  

v      Training Opportunities. Our donors offer a limited number of scholarships to attend different highly rated Educational Programs held in various locations in Europe and Mediterranean. Active BNCYTP members would be given priority for these scholarships.  

v      Professional growth in the BNCYTP Working Groups. Take part in an BNCYTP WG, working with problems of your field of expertise and share information with professionals and experts from those fields.  

v      Information-sharing. One of BNCYTP 's key functions is to share timely and accurate information on educational events, campaigns and trainings, humanitarian affairs with, and among, its members to better enable them to take informed decisions with regards to their operations and/or advocacy. BNCYTP 's information tools are well-known: a website www.youth-trafficking.net/bncytp/  or www.stop-trafficking.net with members' only section; an electronic newsletter, YTP NET; meeting reports; and regular notes for the file or updates. On the website's members-only section, which is accessible through a username and password, documents can be found which require members' input or feedback or discussion and that are not (yet) available in the public domain. The website also contains a calendar, which lists trainings and seminars, humanitarian meetings, many of which are organised by BNCYTP or have BNCYTP participation, and that take place in Europe and elsewhere. The "what's hot" page features the latest information on human trafficking issues. A username and password is available for each staff member of every member. NGOs that are interested in joining BNCYTP can receive a temporary guest user name and password.  

v      Access to member-only database. BNCYTP maintains a dynamic database with a number of research papers and presentations, related to trafficking prevention. It also builds a pool of established scholars and experts on Bulgarian partnership for youth, gender and trafficking prevention that members can contact, consult and invite for their training events, international seminars, research projects. 

v      Access and NGO representation to forums where NGO participation is limited. Various governmental and inter-governmental forums and decisions-making bodies are often not entirely open to NGOs, or there are limits imposed on NGO participation. In fact, some humanitarian bodies, such as the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) or UNHCR's Executive Committee, require that NGOs consolidate their input and use BNCYTP as a vehicle or channel for NGO views. 

v      Advocacy. With the adoption of BNCYTP 's mission in 2006 at the BNCYTP General Assembly, the membership decided to give BNCYTP a particular role in the field of human trafficking prevention advocacy. Earlier, in 2005, the Executive Committee adopted a policy, which formulates the criteria for BNCYTP 's advocacy activities. These include: BNCYTP 's involvement will add value in the sense that no one single agency can individually achieve similar results; BNCYTP 's involvement will lead to synergetic interaction with and among member organizations; expected outcomes of BNCYTP 's involvement can be defined; the Secretariat receives, or has access to, unique information, in particular field-based information and perspectives. 

We all know the power of one. But to effect real, lasting, fundamental change, you need others. By joining with young people equally committed to progressive social change, BNCYTP leverages power, giving, and influence.

Draw from and contribute to our collective well of wisdom, support and inspiration. Together we can combine our skills and resources and gain strength as peers, while we share the lessons, challenges and rewards of our work. 

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