On 10 May, Ms Olga Sedláčková, Expert of “Agora CE” the “Commitment Constructive Dialogue” Project partner conducted training for the group of participants of CSO Incubators of the project on “Public Finance Management: EU Experience in Children and Gender Sensitive Budgeting.”
The CSO incubator groups from Yerevan, Gyumri, Vanadzor, Gavar and Kapan participated in the webinar.
During the training the following issues of European Commission Strategy in the area of Gender Equality were also discussed:
- Promoting equal economic independence for women and men.
- Closing the gender pay gap.
- Advancing gender balance in decision making.
- Ending gender based violence.
- Promoting gender equality beyond the EU.
There was also a reference to the gender equality strategy. It involves the integration of a gender perspective into the preparation, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies, regulatory measures and spending programmes, with a view to promoting equality between women and men, and combating discrimination.
It was noted during the training that there is a need to focus on the existing low level of child-gender sensitive budgeting mechanisms at national and local levels, as well as within CSOs and CSOs coalitions in order to improve these mechanisms, as well as of greater involvement of CSOs/NGOs in monitoring and advocacy activities.
Civil society organisations (CSO) incubators are aimed at promoting CSO capacity building and enhancing efficiency of their activities.
CSO incubators’ mission is to provide professional and technical assistance to Armenian CSOs to develop their capacities in 9 target sectors listed below:
The target areas of the project are:
- Public Finance Management
- Human Rights:
- Justice
- Business
- Education
- Agriculture
- Economy
- Energy
- Social sphere. social inclusion of children with disabilities
CSO incubators will be held in two stages in the following five cities: Yerevan, Gyumri, Vanadzor, Gavar and Kapan. 36 CSOs, which will be selected, from the CSOs that completed the training organised by the American University of Armenia will participate in each phase. Upon completion of the CSO incubators, a total of 33 grants will be provided on a competitive basis. It is planned to provide 16-17 grants in each stage.
