“Strengthening Capacities of Young Leaders and Youth Organisations for Meaningful Community Participation” is a 17-month long-term Civil Society Fellowship capacity building project aimed at developing leadership competences of young people and support establishing and capacity building of local youth organisations to participate in community policy-making in rural areas of Armenia, Moldova, Ukraine and Portugal.The project implementation directly tackles specific two rural areas in each country where youth participation will be enhanced on a long-term through 3 main structural components: individual empowerment of young leaders, capacity building of local youth organisations and youth policy interventions. The project includes intensive Fellowship to Portugal aimed at learning the best practises of youth engagement into the community decision-making. After return to their home communities, the Fellows will mobilize young people and other actors and build capacity of local youth organisations through awareness campaign, local training course and policy interventions, which will result in sustainable cooperation between triangle Young people – Youth CSOs – Local municipalities and better addressing the youth needs.It also includes Training course for multiplier of participation and Youth exchange for young people with fewer opportunities, alongside with local capacity-building activities: awareness campaigns, trainings, policy interventions and dissemination conference. In total 44 participants with fewer opportunities will participate in the project mobility activities. Youthpass wiil be used to reflect, recognise and validate the learning outcomes of the participants.The project main outputs include (1) web site collecting information about its objectives, activities and results; (2) brochures on how to run a youth organisation tailored to the national realities of 4 participating countries; (3) handbook on youth participation, fence-mending with local authorities and policy development published in Armenian, Moldavian, Ukrainian, Portuguese and English languages.As a result of the project, young people from 8 rural areas of 4 countries will significantly raise awareness on the involvement in policy process, what will result in better accountability and performance of local governments. The project local capacity building activities will be implemented in deep cooperation with municipalities, civil society organisations, school administrations, public bodies. The Consortium will support institutionalisation of youth participation models into national youth policies agenda in each country through the cooperation with relevant Ministries and other state public bodies responsible for youth policy implementation. The project success in selected rural areas will set a precedent for scaling project practices in other communities.