“STAGED! Struggling Against Gender-based Discrimination through Youth Work in EU and Asia” is a Capacity Building project_KA2, designed to answer the needs of empowering women and young girls in Europe and South East Asian countries, identifying and redressing power imbalances and giving them more autonomy to manage their own lives. The project aimed to enhance gender equity and young women empowerment by providing youth workers, peer educators, local organizations and international NGOs, in EU and SEA, with new tools and methods to favour young women participation in projects and international voluntary service activities. In order to achieve it specific objectives were set:•to raise awareness on the need of promoting young women empowerment, equal rights and opportunities for men and women in EU and SEA;•to deepen the different gender role models so to draft and propose new role ones based on equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities;•to exchange good practices in the field of gender equality and women empowerment, among EU and SEA CSOs;•to develop NFE tools and working methods to favour the raising awareness process and the young women participation in EU and SEA;•to provide participants with new competences and know how on project planning and project lifecycle to create an effective set of actions and IVS initiatives in the gender equality framework.The project lasted 20 months and involved: Lunaria–Italy, Concordia–France, Asociatia Universitur–Romania, Charity-Oriented Myanmar–Myanmar, Center For Sustainable Development Studies–Vietnam and Perkumpulan Gerakan Kerelawanan Internasional–Indonesia.The project included a set of different actions conceived to achieve the above mentioned aim, the specific objectives and the needs of local partners detected during the Itinerant Feasibility Visit and the Study Phase. The actions implemented were: Itinerant Feasibility Visit in SEA, ITC course on gender issues and non formal education methods in Vietnam, Youth Meetings in SEA, ITC on project management in Indonesia, Study Phase in SEA, Local actions implementation in SEA, ITC restitution and methods sharing in Italy and Follow up activities in EU and SEA.The consortium designed, developed, tested and assessed a methodological package, including NFE methods, tool kit, short video and graphic facilitation to approach different target groups and to facilitate the gathering, capitalization and transmission of different outcomes.The project involved 1.542 participants, allowed to achieve the following outcomes and results, answering the specific objectives, crossing the horizontal priorities (HP) and the sectorial ones (SP) of the program:•empowerment of youth workers and young people, by developing transversal skills and capacities, complementary to those offered through formal education, including the comprehensive understanding of the gender’s cross-cultural nature in EU and SEA and the development of new working methods (HP 1 – SP 2);•development of the young people and young women skills and competences, particularly for those at risk of early school leaving, by encouraging the validation of NF and its permeability with formal education paths, creating new learning opportunities (HP 5 - SP 1);•enhancement of the young women’s role, as main agents of local development in the gender raising awareness and promotion of human rights (SP 4)•development of new transversal skills and competences for young women in different social spheres, creating new practical entrepreneurial experiences, with a cross-sectorial perspective, in education, training and youth work (HP 2).Deliverables produced: •Hand Book with the description of the NFE methods and activities implemented in the 3 ITCs; •Video presentation, to show the project’s steps and to ensure visibility •Prezi presentation