{"id":4242,"date":"2019-02-25T23:26:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T19:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2019-03-01T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T12:50:10","slug":"by-the-order-of-the-src-chairman-a-working-group-has-been-created-to-discuss-the-issues-related-to-transparency-and-accountability-of-ngos-and-foundations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/4242.html","title":{"rendered":"By the Order of the SRC Chairman, a Working Group Has Been Created to Discuss the Issues Related to Transparency and Accountability of NGOs and Foundations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">On 13 November 2018 the &#8220;Armenian Lawyers&#8217; Association&#8221; NGO, together with 103 partner non-governmental organisations and foundations, sent a statement-standpoint to the SRC (State Revenue Committee) Chairman about the <strong>Drafts on Making Changes and Additions in the Law on Non-Governmental Organisations and the Law on Foundations Developed by the SRC\u00a0<\/strong>in the scope of the &#8220;Commitment to Constructive Dialogue&#8221; funded by the European Union. After that, on 23 November, the SRC initiated a meeting with non-governmental organisations to discuss the above-mentioned draft laws with representatives of non-governmental organisations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">During the meeting, Karen Zadoyan, the President of the Armenian Lawyers&#8217; Association and the &#8220;Commitment to Constructive Dialogue&#8221; Project Manager, suggested creating a CSO-SRC working group to discuss issues related to the transparency and accountability of NGOs and Foundations, as well as to find the legal solutions to a number of issues existing in the draft laws. It had a positive response and all agreed to do that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">On 14 February 2019, the above-mentioned working group was created by N\u00a093-\u0531\u00a0order of the SRC Chairman and its composition was approved. Syuzanna Soghomonyan, a lawyer and the CSO-Government Dialogue Coordinator of the &#8220;Commitment to Constructive Dialogue&#8221; project, and lawyer-expert Artyom Mesropyan, as well as a representative from each of the four partner NGOs that had signed the statement-standpoint, were included in the working group. Representatives from other CSOs and relevant state agencies were also included in the group.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 November 2018 the &#8220;Armenian Lawyers&#8217; Association&#8221; NGO, together with 103 partner non-governmental organisations and foundations, sent a statement-standpoint to the SRC (State Revenue Committee) Chairman about the Drafts on Making Changes and Additions in the Law on Non-Governmental Organisations and the Law on Foundations Developed by the SRC\u00a0in the scope of the &#8220;Commitment &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4242","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\/4242","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4242"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4256,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions\/4256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}