{"id":16898,"date":"2025-10-09T09:26:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/?page_id=16898"},"modified":"2026-08-25T10:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:19:38","slug":"power2uams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/power2uams\/","title":{"rendered":"[:el]Power2UAMS[:en]Power2UAMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Power2UAMs: Ensuring Equal Access, Participation, and Voice at the Local Level\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Power2UAMs project is committed to ensuring that unaccompanied minors (UAMs) have equal access to quality public services at the local level. By addressing gaps and strengthening collaboration, it seeks to build sustainable and inclusive systems of support. The project focuses on selected localities in Belgium (Brussels, Ghent and Li\u00e8ge), France (Calais), and Greece (Athens, Piraeus), while also engaging at the EU level.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Key activities include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Data collection:<\/strong>Gathering comparable qualitative and quantitative data on the needs of UAMs and their access to local services.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Reinforcing coordination:<\/strong>Bringing together local stakeholders through working groups and regular meetings.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Empowering young voices:<\/strong> Establishing child participation platforms in each selected locality to ensure UAMs are heard and included.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Developing local strategies:<\/strong> Designing tailored responses to address the specific needs of UAMs in each community.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Advocating for change:<\/strong> Driving sustainable improvements through advocacy at local and national levels, including legal action when necessary.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Sharing practical tools:<\/strong>\u00a0Producing a Toolkit to guide local stakeholders in guaranteeing equal access to services for UAMs.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Partners:<\/strong> Greek Council of Refugees, Bridge EU, Network of Afghan Diaspora Organisations in Europe (NADOE), Caritas International Belgium, SolidarityNow, ECPAT France\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Project Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridge-eu.org\/power2uams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.bridge-eu.org\/power2uams<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power2UAMs: Ensuring Equal Access, Participation, and Voice at the Local Level\u00a0 The Power2UAMs project is committed to ensuring that unaccompanied minors (UAMs) have equal access to quality public services at the local level. By addressing gaps and strengthening collaboration, it seeks to build sustainable and inclusive systems of support. The project focuses on selected localities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16898","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18362,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16898\/revisions\/18362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}