On 29 October 2018, a seminar on the topic of “Public Budget and Policy Monitoring, Evidence-Based Public Policy Development, Coalition Building, CSO-Government Dialogue” was held in the Yerevan CSO incubator operated in the scope of the “Commitment to Constructive Dialogue” project funded by the European Union.
This was the last training for the participants of the Yerevan CSO incubator.
The training was conducted by project mentors’ group coordinator/justice sector mentor Marat Atovmyan. He presented and discussed with participants a number of issues related to development of evidence-based public policies, including work with local government aimed at efficient dialogue, so that the issues raised would become subject of discussion and solutions were found.
Afterwards, Project International Expert Carl Ulbricht gave advice to the CSOs of the Yerevan Incubator on the preparation of their grant proposals.
The civil society organisations (CSO) incubators are aimed at promoting CSO capacity building and enhancing productivity.
The “Commitment to Constructive Dialogue” project is implemented with the financial support of the European Union by a consortium of civil society organizations, which are the “Armenian Lawyers’ Association” NGO, Agora Central Europe o.p.s (an NGO from the Czech Republic), the “Armenian Center for Democratic Education-CIVITAS” NGO, the “International Center for Human Development” Public Organization, the “SME Cooperation Association” NGO and the Union of Communities of Armenia.
The overall objective of the project is to enhance the influence of CSOs and their coalitions (networks) on the public policy process. This will enable the organizations (that already work in target coalitions) to gain new resources, unite civil society experts and encourage them to participate in the formation of local and national policy agenda, identify the common problems and priorities and to apply to the government with constructive and strategic policy initiatives.
In the scope of the project, sub-grants will be allocated to CSOs and CSO coalitions, aiming at public policy development and achieving tangible results in the 9 target sectors: justice, human rights, public finance management, business, education, social sector: social inclusion of children with disabilities, agriculture, economy, energy.
