On 4 July, training on education issues for CSOs participants of Gavar CSO incubator was held within the framework of the EU-funded \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d Project, (Education is one of the 9 target sectors of the project).<\/p>\n
There was great interest in this sector.\u00a0All CSO representatives mentioned the importance and development of the sector.\u00a0Mr. Vigen Shirvanyan, Expert of the \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d Project partner \u201cArmenian Centre for Democratic Education-CIVITAS\u201d NGO,\u00a0presented a number of peculiarities related to education with respect to secondary vocational education.<\/p>\n
On the same day, another training for the group was held in Gavar CSO incubators.\u00a0Mr. Marat Atovmyan, Mentors\u2019 Group Coordinator\/Justice and Related Sectors Mentor of the \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d Project,\u00a0facilitated the training. Mr. Atovmyan talked about the issues of modernization of secondary vocational education and training; he also referred to the experience of the Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association on public oversight, public policy development, development of constructive dialogue with the government and coalition building.\u00a0CSO representatives asked a number of questions and presented examples of best practices.<\/p>\n
9 CSO representatives participated in the trainings.<\/p>\n
Upon completion of the training,\u00a0Marat Atovmyan and Project Lawyer Ms Liana Makvetsyan provided individual counseling to CSO representatives based on the specificities that the CSOs had chosen.\u00a0An agreement was reached to send CSO representatives a copy of documents that they could use during their day-to-day activities.<\/p>\n
The \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d action<\/em>\u00a0is implemented with the financial support of the European Union by a Consortium of civil society organizations, which are \u201cArmenian Lawyers\u2019 Association\u201d, 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 The overall objective of the project is to enhance the influence of CSOs on the public policy process, and the specific objectives are to strengthen the ability of CSOs to build coalitions and focus on constructive and strategic policy engagement with local and central government partners. This will enable organizations (which already work in targeted coalitions) to acquire new resources, to join and encourage the civil society experts to engage in and encourage their participation in the formation of the local and national policies agenda; to identify common issues and priorities; and to address the government with constructive and strategic policy initiatives.<\/p>\n The project has a sub-granting component, under which grants will be provided to CSOs and CSOs Coalitions, which will be directed to the development of public policies and will have tangible results in 9 target areas, including justice, education and business.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On 4 July, training on education issues for CSOs participants of Gavar CSO incubator was held within the framework of the EU-funded \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d Project, (Education is one of the 9 target sectors of the project). There was great interest in this sector.\u00a0All CSO representatives mentioned the importance and development of the sector.\u00a0Mr. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}