Taking into consideration the recent legislative amendments, namely, the adoption of the new law on “Non-Governmental Organizations” (the law is available at https://www.arlis.am/documentview.aspx?docid=110802), which resulted in necessity to harmonize the NGO Statutes with the requirements of the new law, the “Commitment to Constructive Dialogue” Project currently implements training for CSOs on legal changes in the field of non-governmental organizations. The training in particular will focus on the institutes of social entrepreneurship and volunteerism, which are provided in the new law.
After completing the training, CSOs will have the opportunity to receive free legal advice on the new NGO law, particularly on the legal regulations of social entrepreneurship and the volunteers’ institute directly from the trainer, as well as to register for harmonization of their statutes and other legal documents with the existing law.
The “Commitment to Constructive Dialogue” action is implemented with the financial support of the European Union by a Consortium of civil society organizations, which are “Armenian Lawyers’ Association”, Agora Central Europe o.p.s (an NGO from the Czech Republic), Armenian Center for Democratic Education-CIVITAS, “International Center for Human Development” Public Organization, SME Cooperation Association and Union of Communities of Armenia.
The overall objective of the project is to enhance the influence of CSOs on the public policy process, and the specific objectives are to strengthen the ability of CSOs to build coalitions and focus on constructive and strategic policy engagement with local and central government partners. The project has a sub-granting component, under which grants will be provided to CSOs and CSO coalitions. The project has 9 target areas, including justice, education and business.
The training will take place on 27 November, 2017 at 11:00 in Yerevan City (address: 7 Nalbandyan str., Suite 2, Yerevan)
Considering the limited number of places, from 15 to 20 organizations that would register first, will have opportunity to participate in the mentioned training courses. Mr. Karen Zadoyan, President of the Armenian Lawyers’ Association and Mr. Hakob Avagyan, Executive Director of SME Cooperation Association will conduct the training.
For participation, please send the following information to the e-mail address [email protected] indicating “Training on NGO Law – 27.11.2017” in the subject line:
- NGO name, address, phone number, web site,
- Name of the NGO Head, phone number and e-mail address:
- Name of the NGO representative participating in the training, phone number and e-mail.
Deadline for application: 25 November, 17:00.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, FREE LEGAL AID, AND INFORMATION ON THE TRAINING COURSE PLEASE APPLY ON BUSINESS DAYS FROM 09.00 to 13.00 and 14.00 to 18.00, TO THE FOLLOWING ADDRESSES:
Yerevan, 7 Nalbandyan str., Suite 2, Yerevan, Zip Code: 0010
Hot Line: 080001110
Telephone: (+374 10) 54 01 99
E.mail: [email protected]
