On June 4, the American University of Armenia launched a certification program for CSOs capacity building organised within the EU-funded \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue” project.<\/p>\n
At the opening of the five-day training course, Syuzanna Soghomonyan, CSO-Government Dialogue Coordinator of the Project, Lawyer of the Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association mentioned in her speech that, based on the analysis of the results of similar trainings conducted in five stages, CSOs have developed skills such as the development of evidence-based public policies, conducting monitoring, including monitoring of the budgets, coalitions creation skills, finding supporters, and achieving success, through constructive dialogue with the government and local authorities.<\/p>\n
“Representatives of civil society organizations who have won the grant competition and have signed a grant agreement with are participating in this training.\u00a0No matter what the program of each one is, and in which sector, the two most important results must be achieved through each program.\u00a0The first, it is the formation of coalitions when there will be problems, everyone will know that there is one important, strong network that they can apply for support, and it can serve as a platform for discussing the issues raised.\u00a0The other important outcome is the developed public policy.\u00a0We have talked with everyone separately and reached the agreement,\u00a0that it is not essential to have a well-developed public policy.\u00a0 The main outcome of this program for us should be the implementation of such public policies, creation of concepts and incorporation of them in special programs,” Susanna Soghomonyan said.<\/p>\n
Avetik Mnatsakanyan, representative of \u201cFoundation to Save Energy\u201d NGO, told during a conversation with us that public administration courses are very important in Armenia, and NGOs are now making serious progress.\u00a0“The objective is to become more informed, more productive in policymaking, as well as to acquire new links and to share new ideas with experts in the sector,” Avetik Mnatsakanyan said.<\/p>\n
The \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d project is implemented with the financial support of the European Union by a Consortium of civil society organizations, which are the Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association (lead organization), 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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