AP: Activity Plan 2026-27 

The activity plan is designed to cover the period from April 2026 to April 2027.

We will Empower progressive changemakers by:

Annual Work Plan: Green youth for diversity of life –
Exploring the interplay of climate crisis, biodiversity, and
human rights

The Work Plan (WP) aims to to explore the interplay between biodiversity,
climate crisis, and human rights with green youth organisations in Eastern
Europe and equip them with knowledge, tools, and skills in the areas of
education, policymaking, and advocacy related to protection of biodiversity and
human rights.

The WP will incorporate two phases and will consist of an international
Biodiversity Summer Camp, followed by Local Actions (LAs).

The first activity of the WP, the Biodiversity Summer Camp, will be a 6-day
International Activity hosted by Frontline Youth Network (TBC). With this
activity we aim to equip 35 representatives of green youth organisations from EE
with knowledge related to biodiversity loss and destruction, its connection to
climate crisis and human rights, and equip them with the tools for education,
policy making, and advocating for biodiversity protection and restoration.

After the Summer Camp, we will support 7 organisations through Local Actions
that allow young green activists to take the lessons learned and skills gained
from the previous stage and bring them to local and regional levels. In this
phase, individuals that participated in the earlier phase and young people in
the EE green network will be able to transfer the knowledge and skills gathered
at the first event to their peers within their organisations, as well as to the
wider circle of their activist allies. In addition, they will be supported to
organise activities with aims of education, policymaking and advocacy related to
biodiversity protection and restoration. Therefore, this activity aims to enable
green youth activists and organisations to increase their capacities in
education, policymaking, and advocacy related to biodiversity and human rights
protection in different contexts in Eastern Europe.

Work Plan 2027

The Annual Work Plan 2027 (application to be submitted in March/April 2026) will
be focused on the social inclusion. It will aim to increase youth activists'
understanding of inclusion, minority protection, inequalities and strenthen
their capacity to create more inclusive environment for people from diverse
minority groups, with a specific focus on migrants, people with different ethnic
and religious backgrounds. The exact objectives and shape of activities will be
decided by the Executive Committee responsible and Project Coordinator in the
application period.

Training programme Taste the Change: Capacity Building for
Sustainable Food Systems in Eastern Europe.

The project aims to strengthen the organisational and advocacy capacity of
youth-led and civil society organisations in Eastern Europe to engage in
advancing sustainable and more plant-forward food systems in their
municipalities, regions and countries.

Through a series of three in-person activities and an online course, the
participants of the project will learn about food systems and just transition,
and organisations they are coming from will experience increased capacities in
advocacy, policy writing and engaging the society through participatory
democracy. The project duration will be June 2026-April 2027, and include
following activities:

CDN will employ additional person (3/4 time, remote) for the project managing
during the direction of the project. With regards to IRPs, the person will be
selected by EC for the first three months of the project (June-August 2026), and
then can prolong this person or issue an open call for the further phases. The
host cities will be selected in the project.

Regional Meeting: Towards political autonomy of youth wings
II

This year Regional Meeting will be another time merged with Summer Camp. It will
be continuation on the main topic of the 2025-27 cooperation with Green Forum,
i.e. political autonomy of youth wings. Build upon the work made in 2025, i. e.
the definition of political autonomy and its shapes, we will create region-
specific roadmaps to achieve it in the coming years that can be firstly
evaluated during the Regional Meeting in 2027.

International activity: „Climate Migration Academy“ (TBC)

The 3-days event on the topic of Climate Migration will gather 15 young people
to discuss the intersection of climate change, migration, and human rights in
the region and beyond. The participants will explore the theoretical basis of
migration, the specific realities of climate migrants and host communities, and
critically look at the political narratives shaping the public debate on
migration.

The financing of the project is secured, but its implementation depends of the
capacities of the Office and EC in Q3-Q4.

Training for Trainers

Following the success of 2025 Training of Trainers and securing the funding we
will continue organisation of smaller-scale events focused on building the
crucial skills and knowledge in project-specific areas.

The two-day activity will take place in Q4-2026 in Serbia, and the skill focus
of the programme will be decided after the results of MO Survey by 2026-27
Executive Committee.

AMAZ Project

We become the partner in the AMAZ project with our activists, focusing on co-
existing and cross-border cooperation between young people from Armenia and
Azerbaijan. It aims to strengthen their cooperation through jointly creating
aimed pieces, focused on queer community.

CDN's role will be co-ordinating this cooperation and bringing the international
and regional aspect.

We will Strengthen the Network by:

General Assembly

The General Assembly (GA) the highest decision-making body of our network that
will take place in 28-29th March in Riga, Latvia. The GA will elect the new
Executive Committee (EC) and Secretary General, hear and adopt reports and
plans, adopt resolutions and amendments to the documents, approve/reject
candidate members of the Network. In 2026, it will also vote on the new Internal
Rules of Procedure. The General Assembly will include public conference on the
intersection of topics of arts&culture and feminism.

2027 General Assembly will be a smaller event, due to the rising costs related
to increased number of MOs and inflation. As for plan, it will consist of only 1
delegate per Member Organisation. The new Executive Committee will have a right
to decide on moving the event to the online/hybrid form, or (if funding allows)
increase the scope of the event to normal in-person form. Due to the new IRPs,
the GA since 2027 should be more effective and less beaurocratic.

Tentative dates for 2027 General Assembly are end of March/Early April. Its
programme will be shaped by the 2026/27 Executive Committee based on the new
IRPs and sustainability needs.

Effective Internal Governance

In 2026, CDN will continue to put emphasis on its internal governance,
strengthening the work and position of EC and Office. This will be done by
following:

Effective and Productive Executive Committee Meetings

We will continue increasing productivity and effectiveness of live EC Meetings.
We will keep improving the transfer period, so that newly elected EC can start
their work immediately after the GA as it happened in 2025.

Refined internal documents

In 2026, the office transfer documents will be adopted, and the
guidelines/handboook for prep-teams created.

Diversifying Funding Sources

This year, CDN will put more focus on structural fundraising. We will put more
emphasis on the fundraising campaigns and new grant applications. Especially
small-scale fundraising will be prioritised to stabilise the finances of CDN and
make it more sustainable before applying for large-scale projects.

Enhanced Communication with Member Organisations

The Executive Committee regional responsibles will continue good practice to
organise regional calls with MOs, in all the regions. We will adapt the handbook
for the Regional Responsible EC Members and increase the budget for visit of EC
Members on the MO’s events. Moreover, the increase presence of dissemination of
MO’s actions in our newsletter, website and social media is strategical priority
for 2026-28.

Internship programme

CDN evaluate the internship programme as success and will strive for its
continuation, if funding allows. CDN EC 2026/27 will decide on the exact form
and timeline of the internship, as well as for fundraising or making savings
allowing the next edition of the programme. The recommendation includes that
Office define that the intership is focused either on the communication, or the
projects, not merging it, to make task division and supervision more clear for
the Office.

Action Teams

The Feminist Action Team (FemAT) will continue its work. New EC together with
FemAT will define action points for 2026 and 2027.

The Arts&Culture Action Team will continue to exist as a group, potentially to
be engaged in any activities or campaign related to the topics of art and
culture.

We will Bring Eastern European Perspective by:

Enhanced External Communication

In 2026, we will continue the focus on enhance the CDN external communication,
both in terms of substantive content, as of methods and channels. The
strategical priorities in external communication will be to increase the number
of opinion pieces and authors published on our social media and website, and to
increase the engagement in the newsletter.

The campaigns planned for 2026 will include: one campaign addressing the
monopolies in Eastern European economy, and one on femicide laws in the region.
We will have also a campaign for International Mine Awareness Day, the follow-up
phase of the International Activity „Environmental Consequences of War:
Overcoming and Monitoring“.

We will also focus on digital activities by creating engaging, whole-year
activities as reading clubs etc.

Networking with Green European Movement and Beyond

As in 2025, we will continue good practices on cooperation with other green
organisations in Europe from last year, especially regarding the contacts and
common activities with Federation of Young European Greens. We will also
continue to attend the events of European Green Party, Green European Foundation
and other organisations, try to build partnership with other Green foundations
(as HBS offices in the region) as well as increase our advocacy among them. We
will also strive to develop closer relations with our observer organisations and
other Green youth organisations in Europe.

We will continue networking and start new cooperations with other youth
organisations in Europe. We will also strive to become an observer in European
Youth Forum.