The National Action Plan for Child and Youth Participation (NAP) was initiated in November 2022 by the then Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, now the Federal Ministry of Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMBFSFJ), in order to further develop the Federal Government’s youth strategy and strengthen the participation of young people under the age of 27 in Germany.

The NAP was designed as an extensive dialogue process that included various formats and events. A total of 13 events took place between 2022 and 2024, in which around 1,350 young people up to the age of 27 and 350 experts took part. The dialogue and participation process thus involved a large number of participants and developed comprehensive and differentiated recommendations for action.

On behalf of the Service Agency Youth Strategy (SPI Foundation), nexus is currently conducting an evaluation of the dialogue process. The evaluation is summative in nature and focuses on recording and analysing the results of the dialogue process with regard to the achievement of its objectives as well as its visibility and impact.

In this respect, the evaluation can measure the results of the process against its own recommendations and also against the ‘Quality Standards for Child and Youth Participation’ developed by the BMBFSFJ and the German Federal Youth Council.

The implementation of the evaluation includes: Creation and coordination of an evaluation concept with a catalogue of indicators, the application of a method-mix evaluation design, a one-day internal evaluation workshop with the actors involved in the organisational implementation and technical support of the NAP by the BMBFSFJ (Division 501) and the Youth Strategy Service Centre (SPI Foundation), an online survey of the more than 1,000 participants and stakeholders of the NAP events and a participatory evaluation workshop in November 2025.

Hier geht’s zur Projekt-Webseite.

Duration: 05/2025 – 01/2026
Client: Servicestelle Jugendstrategie der Stiftung SPI
Team: Tzvetina Arsova Netzelmann (Projektleitung), Ansgar Düben, Lena Frey, Justine Kenzler

Picture: AI Generiert / Pixabay