{"id":4345,"date":"2018-04-11T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/?p=4345"},"modified":"2019-03-14T17:18:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T13:18:59","slug":"launch-of-the-first-stage-of-cso-incubators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/4345.html","title":{"rendered":"Launch of the First Stage of CSO Incubators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The launch of the first stage of the Civil Society Organizations\u2019 (CSO) incubators in the framework of the EU-funded &#8220;Commitment to Constructive Dialogue&#8221; Project will be held simultaneously on\u00a0April 11 in Yerevan <span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>(11:00)<\/em><\/span>, Vanadzor\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>(12:00)<\/em><\/span>, Gavar <span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>(12:00)<\/em><\/span>, Gyumri\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>(12:00)<\/em><\/span> and Kapan\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>(12:00)<\/em><\/span> cities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Civil society organizations&#8217; (CSO) incubators are aimed at promoting the capacity building of CSOs and enhancing their effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Here you can find the most important documentation on CSO incubators activities <a href=\"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/Guidelines-to-Activities-of-Incubators-Eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guidelines<\/a>, CSO incubator <a href=\"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/Strategy-for-CSO-Incubators-revised-Eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strategy<\/a>, CSO incubator action plan and schedule.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The mission of CSO incubators is to provide professional and technical support to Armenian CSOs so as to develop them in the 9 target sectors of the project, as well as in terms of the below mentioned 4 thematic capacities:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><i>1. Public budget and policy monitoring,\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><i>2. Evidence based policy development,\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><i>3. Coalition building and\/or development,\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><i>4. Constructive participation\/dialogue with the Government and local government in the process of public policy development.<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>The 9 project target sectors are:\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<div><i>1. Public finance management,\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>2. Human rights,\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>3. Justice,<br \/>\n<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>4. Business,\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>5. Education,\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>6. Agriculture,<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>7. Economy,\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>8. Energy,\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>9. Social sector: social inclusion of children with disabilities.\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">CSO incubators will be implemented in two stages in the following five cities: Yerevan, Gyumri, Vanadzor, Gavar and Kapan. In total, 36 CSOs will participate in each stage. These CSOs are selected among those that have completed the training organised at the American University of Armenia. After they complete CSO incubators, in total, 33 micro-grants will be allocated through competition, 16-17 grants at each stage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">CSOs from the Tavush Region will have an opportunity to make use of the incubator located in Vanadzor, CSOs from the Aragatsotn Region will be able to benefit from the incubators located in Yerevan, Gyumri and Vanadzor, in accordance with the CSOs\u2019 territorial location, and the CSOs located in Vayots Dzor will benefit from the incubators located in Kapan and in Yerevan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of the first stage of the Civil Society Organizations\u2019 (CSO) incubators in the framework of the EU-funded &#8220;Commitment to Constructive Dialogue&#8221; Project will be held simultaneously on\u00a0April 11 in Yerevan (11:00), Vanadzor\u00a0(12:00), Gavar (12:00), Gyumri\u00a0(12:00) and Kapan\u00a0(12:00) cities. Civil society organizations&#8217; (CSO) incubators are aimed at promoting the capacity building of CSOs and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345","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=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4349,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions\/4349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}