Eight years ago, the Youth Hub for Western Balkans and Türkiye Network (YHWBT Network) developed the Youth Participation Index (YPI) to summarize data on barriers to youth participation and provide a concrete data-driven tool for policymakers and youth organizations to improve it.
This Index aims to provide a comprehensive overview of opportunities for youth through the lens of 25 political, economic, and social participation indicators. The data in this Index does not refer to the outcome – how frequently and in which ways young people participate, but to inputs – political, economic, and social contexts that shape youth opportunities to do so.
The eighth edition of this Index includes, for the first time, data from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, thus providing comprehensive information on youth participation in the region.