{"id":398,"date":"2017-03-22T22:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T22:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/?p=398"},"modified":"2019-09-03T14:13:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T10:13:57","slug":"ngos-should-participate-in-the-development-process-of-public-policies-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/398.html","title":{"rendered":"NGOs should participate in Public Policy-Making Processes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The NGO representatives believe that the Non-Governmental Organizations should participate in the entire process of the development of public policies<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">They are sure that civil society organizations should be provided opportunity to be involved in decision-making processes just from the very beginning. Otherwise, the government decisions and solutions will not have results in our country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The regular focus group meeting with the representatives of the \u201cMaternal and Child health Armenian Alliance\u201d was organized in the scope of \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d Project\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mr. Aleksander Shagafyan, Aleksnader Shagafyan, President of the \u201cArmenian CIVITAS\u201d NGO facilitated the meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He represented the project and said that 3 areas: justice, education and business sectors had been selected as target areas in the scope or the project. He also added that 6 target areas should be selected as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cWe shall raise the urgent problems that exist in these sectors and take them to the decision making bodies, and in cooperation with the civil society and the state and try to find and suggest solutions,\u201d Mr. Shagafyan said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Details about the project and the ideas of CSO representatives in the video.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d Project is implemented with the financial support of the European Union by the \u201cArmenian Lawyers\u2019 Association\u201d NGO in cooperation with its partners; Agora Central Europe o.p.s (an NGO from the Czech Republic), Armenian Center for Democratic Education-CIVITAS, \u201cInternational Center for Human Development\u201d Public Organization, SME Cooperation Association and Union of Communities of Armenia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NGO representatives believe that the Non-Governmental Organizations should participate in the entire process of the development of public policies They are sure that civil society organizations should be provided opportunity to be involved in decision-making processes just from the very beginning. Otherwise, the government decisions and solutions will not have results in our country. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5855,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/5855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}