On 27 November 2018, the founding assembly of the Inter-Regional Coalition to Deal with Issues of Children with Disabilities took place. The coalition was formed in the scope of the \u201cFor Quality and Accessible Inclusive Education and Social Support\u201d funded by the \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d project financed by the European Union.<\/p>\n
Representatives of 33 coalition member organisations participated.<\/p>\n
The goal of the coalition is to contribute to the establishment of inclusive education in Armenia and advocacy of children with disabilities, increasing CSOs\u2019 influence in the processes of developing and implementing public policies in this field.<\/p>\n
\u201cProtection of rights of children with disabilities and solution of problems related to ensuring inclusive education in Armenia must be implemented through systemic and not just episodic solutions. Each of you carries out field work in this area every day and so you know the existing problems very well. In this sense, it is very important that you reveal a number of problems, turn them into public policies and try to give them solutions, at the same time monitoring the Government\u2019s programmes,\u201d Karen Zadoyan, the President of the Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association and the \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d Project Manager, said.<\/p>\n
Naira Arakelyan, the Executive Director of the \u201cArmavir Development Centre\u201d NGO, stressed that on that day the present civil society organisations united their efforts to solve the many problems existing in the field of protection of the rights of children with disabilities and reach systemic changes for the establishment of inclusive education in Armenia.<\/p>\n
\u201cTogether, we want to contribute to increasing the efficiency of oversight over inclusive education reforms implemented by the government in our country\u00a0 through the coalition, as well as forming and developing cooperation between regional CSOs, the government, and other state agencies, increasing CSOs\u2019 role and participation in the processes of pubic policy development,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Then, Naira Arakelyan presented the coalition\u2019s rules and regulations and memorandum. The board was formed, and the upcoming\u00a0 joint actions were discussed.<\/p>\n
The parties of the coalitions agreed to cooperate in the following directions: implement public oversight projects in\u00a0 centers implementing inclusive education, reveal the existing problems, publicize the results and focus on them the attention of state agencies, develop the CSO-Government cooperation platform for developing and introducing a social inclusion, support and cooperation concept in Armenia, implementing projects aimed at increasing the public\u2019s awareness of inclusive education processes, developing cooperation between coalition member organisations, cooperate with the interested local and international organisations of the sector, etc.<\/p>\n
The founding members of the coalition, the \u201cArmavir Development Centre\u201d NGO, \u201cMartuni Women\u2019s Community Council\u201d NGO, the \u201cHope-98\u201d Vayots Dzor development NGO, and \u201cYoung Journalists\u2019 Association\u201d NGO, are jointly implementing the sub-grant project \u201cFor Quality and Accessible Inclusive Education and Social Support\u201d in the scope of the \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d project funded by the European Union.<\/p>\n
The main goal of the project is to improve the quality and effectiveness of the educational services rendered by the public education institutions offering inclusive education and the social services rendered by community-based support centres in the RA Armavir, Gegharkunik, Kotayk and Vayots Dzor marzes, increasing CSOs\u2019 influence on public policy development and implementation processes in these sectors.<\/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 organizations, 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 Organization, the \u201cSME Cooperation Association\u201d NGO and the Union of Communities of Armenia.<\/p>\n The 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 organizations (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.<\/p>\n In the scope of the project, sub-grants have been\/will be 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On 27 November 2018, the founding assembly of the Inter-Regional Coalition to Deal with Issues of Children with Disabilities took place. The coalition was formed in the scope of the \u201cFor Quality and Accessible Inclusive Education and Social Support\u201d funded by the \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d project financed by the European Union. Representatives of 33 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3266","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\/3266","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=3266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3270,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266\/revisions\/3270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}