EU4Youth IV: youth engagement and empowerment Contract related to: EU4Youth IV: youth engagement and empowerment - SummaryBuilding on progress achieved under previous phases, the present action constitutes phase IV of the EU4Youth initiative in the Eastern Partnership. This new phase will contribute to achieving the objectives relating to youth under the March 2020 Joint Communication ¿Eastern Partnership policy beyond 2020: Reinforcing Resilience ¿ an Eastern Partnership that delivers for all¿[1] and the July 2021 Joint Staff Working Document ¿Recovery, resilience and reform: post 2020 Eastern Partnership priorities¿[2], which retain, with its New Deal for Youth, support to youth employment and entrepreneurship as well as youth participation and leadership in the focus of Eastern Partnership (EaP) cooperation.The proposed action focuses specifically on promoting greater youth participation in policy making. Besides substantial capacity building support to key stakeholders of the youth sector in the six EaP countries, the action will promote more networking, exchange and mutual learning between key state and non-state actors of the Eastern partner countries and from the European Union.In short, the proposed action aims to contribute (overall objective) to increase the influence young people in the EaP region have in determining policy outcomes. The proposed action plans to do so with the following two specific objectives: Increase the capacity of youth organisations and public institutions to jointly implement more participatory and structured policy dialogue in the context of the EaP architecture as well as at local, regional and national levels;Improve the quality and outreach of youth work for mobilising and engaging more young people from remote/less advantaged areas in the EaP region.