Professional Sector: Training/Youth Work, Youth Policy, Youth Research

Firtst Name: Yael

Last Name: Ohana

Nationality: Irish

Languages:

• English - mother tongue
• French - fluent
• German - fluent
• Russian - good
• Slovak - good
• Hebrew - good
• Hungarian - basic
• Irish - basic

Postal Address: Schlueterstrasse 35, 10629 Berlin

Country: Germany

Email: yael@frankly-speaking.org

Website(s): www.nonformality.org and www.frankly-speaking.org

Organisation: Frankly speaking - training, research and development

A few words about myself: Yael has been working in non-formal education and capacity building in the civil sector, especially with youth related organisations, since 1995. Initially in the role of activist and later as a professional, Yael has been instrumental in the preparation and organisation of several European campaigns and large scale youth events including the 1995 European Youth Train Event, one of the highlight events of the “All Different – All Equal Campaign” against Racism, anti-Semitism, Xenophobia and Intolerance. From 2000 to 2005 she was employed by the Directorate of Youth and Sport of the Council of Europe as an educational advisor at the European Youth Centre Strasbourg, in which capacity her main responsibilities included the management of priority work programmes, the facilitation of the work of statutory organs and the assessment of grant and other applications for support, evaluation of programmes, the planning and implementation of large scale events such as symposia, conferences, campaigns, youth events, implementation of research projects and publication activities, assisting non-governmental organisations to plan and implement educational training programmes, the development and implementation of pilot training and course models for NGO capacity building (regionally targeted provision [Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Caucasus, South East Europe] and for specific target groups [minority groups]). Since October 2005, she has worked as a consultant with Frankly Speaking. Her main thematic fields of interest and specialisation are human rights education, citizenship, minorities, peace, conflict transformation, globalisation, racism, youth participation in local and regional life, democracy, culture and change, youth policy. Her recent projects have been in the areas of research and policy development, publishing, project development and management and the facilitation of the strategic development of organisations and programmes. Her clients include European and international institutions, international foundations and NGOs, youth specific organisations and a network of universities from 21 European countries. Yael is a graduate of the Central European University, Budapest (M.Phil. in Political Science), the College of Europe at Bruges (MA in European Studies and Human Resources Development) and Trinity College Dublin (BA (hons) in French and Russian Studies). She speaks several European languages including English, French, German, Russian and Slovak and has lived in Belgium, France, Hungary, Israel, Israel, Slovakia and Ukraine at different moments of her academic and professional life. Yael was born in Haifa in Israel in 1973 and raised in Dublin in Ireland. She lives in Berlin with her husband.