{"id":2354,"date":"2018-05-16T20:04:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T16:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2018-08-31T09:46:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T05:46:03","slug":"training-for-civil-society-representatives-on-increasing-access-to-justice-for-vulnerable-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/2354.html","title":{"rendered":"Training for Civil Society Representatives on Increasing Access to Justice for Vulnerable Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 16 May, training on \u201cIncreasing Access to Justice for Vulnerable Groups\u201d was organized for the participants of Vanadzor CSO Incubator in the scope of the EU-funded \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d Project.<\/p>\n

12 representatives took attended the training, and about 55 participants from other cities joined the training via the webinar.<\/p>\n

Mr. Marat Atovmyan, Mentors\u2019 Group Coordinator\/Justice and Related Sectors Mentor of the \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d Project shall conduct the training. In the interview with us he told that CSO representatives were interested in conducting monitoring in different state structures.\u00a0“It would be good if monitoring is conducted, for example, on the activities of the Public Defender’s Office.\u00a0The Public Defender’s Office provides free legal aid to certain groups.\u00a0In particular, it carries out consulting, as well as representation and defence in criminal, civil, administrative and constitutional cases,” Marat Atovmyan said.<\/p>\n

He also spoke about the 2017-2022\u00a0Government Program, which highlights the importance of increasing the access to free legal assistance guaranteed by the RA Constitution and the need for new effective mechanisms.<\/p>\n

“According to the program, reform in the sector of juvenile justice will be aimed at creating and developing mechanisms for access to justice for children, defending the rights of offender or victim juvenile witnesses and reflecting the necessary peculiarities in the RA legislation and practice,” Marat Atovmyan said.<\/p>\n

CSO incubators\u2019 mission is to provide professional and technical assistance to Armenian CSOs to develop their capacities in 9 target sectors and 4 thematic areas listed below:<\/p>\n

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  1. Monitoring of Public Budgets and Policies;<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Development of Evidence based policies;<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Creation and\/or Development of Coalition,<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. Constructive participation\/dialogue with the government and local self-governance bodies in public policy development the process.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The 9 target areas of the project are:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Public Finance Management<\/em><\/li>\n
    2. Human Rights:\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n
    3. Justice<\/em><\/li>\n
    4. Business<\/em><\/li>\n
    5. Education<\/em><\/li>\n
    6. Agriculture<\/em><\/li>\n
    7. Economy<\/em><\/li>\n
    8. Energy\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n
    9. Social sphere:\u00a0Social inclusion of children with disabilities\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      On 16 May, training on \u201cIncreasing Access to Justice for Vulnerable Groups\u201d was organized for the participants of Vanadzor CSO Incubator in the scope of the EU-funded \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d Project. 12 representatives took attended the training, and about 55 participants from other cities joined the training via the webinar. Mr. Marat Atovmyan, Mentors\u2019 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,89,94,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cso-incubators","category-news-vanadzor","category-news","category-vanadzor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3154,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions\/3154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}