Gonzalo Serrano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMr. Gonzalo Serrano<\/strong>, Head of Cooperation Section, of the Delegation of the European Union to Armenia said that the purpose of this forum is to find out what they could do in the region.\u00a0“<\/p>\n\u201cThe EU in Armenia is mobilizing important resources for new programmes and investments on i.e. agriculture, tourism, small & medium SME enterprise development and mostly focused on the three northern regions. In the framework of the Eastern Partnership principles and specific public administration reforms in Armenia, the EU also contributes to and relies on the capacities of local\u00a0& regional authorities as local CSOs to deliver more and better for the Armenian people and businesses.”<\/p>\n
Members of the Conference of Regional and Local Authorities for the Eastern Partnership, representatives of CORLEAP and community leaders participated in the conference.<\/p>\n
Mr. Andris\u00a0Jaunsleinis,Member\u00a0of\u00a0Ventspils\u00a0Municipal\u00a0Council, Member of the European Committee of the Regions; Mr. Pavel Branda, a member of the CoR and deputy mayor of R\u00e1dlo; Mr. Sergey Chernov, Chairman of Kharkiv Regional Council and President of the Ukrainian Association of Local and Regional Authorities, CORLEAP Rapporteur; Mr. Anar Ibrahimov, Chairman of the Committee of Human Rights and International Relation of the Ali Majlis of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (Azerbaijan) CORLEAP Bureau Member; Mr. Thomas Anderson, Member of the Regional Council of J\u00e4mtland and H\u00e4rledalen, Sweden, Representative of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe; and Mr. Sandro Sordia, Member of Zugdidi Municipality, Georgia, had arrived in Armenia to participate in the conference and the Bureau session<\/p>\n
Notably, representatives of 9 CSO Colaitions established within the framework of the “Commitment to Constructive Dialogue” project presented their work and activities and experience at the international conference.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0\u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0project is implemented with the financial support of the European Union by a consortium of civil society organisations, which are the \u201cArmenian Lawyers\u2019 Association\u201d NGO, Agora Central Europe o.p.s (an NGO from the Czech Republic), the \u201cArmenian Center for Democratic Education-CIVITAS\u201d NGO, the \u201cInternational Center for Human Development\u201d Public Organisation, the \u201cSME Cooperation Association\u201d NGO and the Union of Communities of Armenia.<\/em><\/p>\nThe overall objective of the project is to enhance the influence of CSOs and their coalitions (networks) on the public policy process. This will enable the organisations (that already work in target coalitions) to gain new resources, unite civil society experts and encourage them to participate in the formation of local and national policy agenda, identify the common problems and priorities and to apply to the government with constructive and strategic policy initiatives.<\/em><\/p>\nIn the scope of the project, sub-grants have been provided to CSOs and CSO coalitions, aiming at public policy development and achieving tangible results in the\u00a09 target sectors:<\/strong>\u00a0justice, human rights, public finance management, business, education, social sector: social inclusion of children with disabilities, agriculture, economy, energy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An international conference “Local Authorities and Civil Society Organisations” was held on March 28 within the framework of the EU-funded “Commitment to Constructive Dialogue” project. During the conference, discussions on “Creating an open, enabling environment for citizen participation and civil society and LRAs’ actions,” and \u00a0“Strengthening the ability to interact, generate synergies, and produce concrete …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-coalitions","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753","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=4753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4831,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions\/4831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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