On 30 October 2018, a seminar entitled “Public Budget and Policy Monitoring, Development of Evidence-Based Public Policies, Coalition Building, CSO-Government Dialogue” was held at the Gavar CSO incubator operated in the scope of the “Commitment to Constructive Dialogue” project funded by the European Union.
9 representatives of 7 civil society organisations attended the training.
The training was conducted by project mentors’ group coordinator/justice sector mentor Marat Atovmyan. He presented and discussed with the participants a number of issues related to development of evidence-based public policies, including work with local government aimed at effective dialogue and making the issues raised a subject for discussion and receive solutions.
In addition, Carl Ulbricht, the International Expert of the Project, gave personal advice to Gyumri Incubator CSOs on the preparation of grant proposals.
Incubators of civil society organisations (CSO) are aimed at contributing to CSO capacity building and increasing the efficiency of their activities.
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.
