On 22 August, a training at the Yerevan CSO incubator took place in the scope of the “Commitment to Constructive Dialogue” project funded by the European Union. The topic was “Human Rights: The Necessity of Monitoring Threats against Human Rights Defenders.”
The training was conducted by Carl Ulbricht, the International Expert of the Project. He spoke about human rights defenders’ role and activities, discussed with the participants cases of threats against human rights defenders. The participating CSO representatives further asked questions on the topic discussed.
6 CSO representatives participated.
The project CSO incubators are aimed at contributing to CSO capacity development and increasing their productivity.
The “Commitment to Constructive Dialogue” project is implemented with the financial support of the European Union by a Consortium of civil society organisations, which are the Armenian Lawyers’ Association (lead organisation), Agora Central Europe (NGO based in the Czech Republic), the Armenian Centre for Democratic Education-CIVITAS, the International Centre for Human Development, the SME Cooperation Association and the Union of Communities of Armenia.
The project aims to enhance the influence of civil society organisations (CSOs) and CSO coalitions/networks on public policies in Armenia. This will allow organisations that are already working in sectoral coalitions to access additional resources, new groups of civil society experts to come together and encourage place their causes on the local and national policy agenda, to identify common concerns and priorities and approach government bodies with constructive and strategic policy engagement initiatives.
The project will provide sub-grants to CSOs and CSO coalitions for developing public policies and bringing significant changes in the 9 target sectors selected within the project, including those of justice, human rights, public finance management, business, education, and the social sector: social inclusion of children with disabilities, agriculture, economy, and energy.
