{"id":9173,"date":"2024-10-25T17:16:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T13:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/?p=9173"},"modified":"2024-10-25T17:16:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T13:16:22","slug":"admission-launch-of-the-2nd-stream-of-budget-training-program-for-young-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/9173.html","title":{"rendered":"Admission: Launch of the 2nd Stream of Budget Training Program for Young Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\" style=\"text-align: justify\">Are you interested in the budgetary process and want to become a budget expert? Hurry to participate in the training program aimed at transferring budgetary knowledge to young professionals, implemented within the framework of the &#8220;Budgets for Citizens&#8221; project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Who can apply:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"-mt-1 list-disc space-y-2 pl-8\" style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">Students from Finance Faculties<\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">Students from Economics Faculties<\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">Students from Management Faculties<\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">Students from Related Fields<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>What you will receive:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"-mt-1 list-disc space-y-2 pl-8\" style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">In-depth knowledge about budgetary processes<\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">Practical skills in public finance analysis<\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">Employment with 12-month work contracts in budget analysis and advocacy programs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Program details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"-mt-1 list-disc space-y-2 pl-8\" style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">Start: December 2024<\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">Duration: 4-5 months<\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">Participation is FREE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The program will be implemented in the following three phases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>ONLINE LEARNING PHASE:\u00a0<\/strong>During this phase the young professionals will participate in online courses, which will consist of the following 4 modules:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>State budgets, budget analysis and monitoring.<\/li>\n<li>Advocacy implementation.<\/li>\n<li>Need-based related skills.<\/li>\n<li>Similar experience of Czech Republic<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The training will be carried out through video classes and interactive materials of the Budget Knowledge Learning Platform (e-learning), developed by the Project experts. At the end of each topic, the participants must complete the knowledge test questionnaires.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>ADVANCED AND PRACTICAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT PHASE:\u00a0<\/strong>15 students with the best results in the online training phase will participate in the 5-day course, during which they will attend the lectures (master classes) on the topics of the state budget, budget analysis, participation, monitoring, implementation and advocacy, as well as perform group and individual analytical work. During this phase, the participants will also have the opportunity to visit relevant bodies (such as, RA Government, Ministry of Finance, National Assembly, etc.), private, international and local civil society organizations representing the field and get acquainted with the practical work carried out in the field.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>PUBLIC AWARENESS PHASE.\u00a0<\/strong>During this phase, each participant shall hold a public awareness workshop on at least one topic aimed to generate interest among young people, share knowledge on budget analysis and monitoring, and ensure participation and advocacy in the field of public budgets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At the end of all\u00a0<strong>3 phases<\/strong>, the 6 young professionals with the best results, will be provided an opportunity on a competitive basis and based on the 12 months\u2019 employment contracts, to be involved and work as young professionals in \u2018CSO budget analysis and advocacy programs\u2019 within the framework of sub-grants to be provided to these CSOs on a competitive basis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Young people who want to participate in the training program should fill out the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1S4jDOP9SFwgqif0oaZWoV912lUjD332Q01Me6810w_A\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">application form<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by 30 March, 2024 inclusive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>SELECTION CRITERIA OF YOUNG PROFESSIONALS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Young professionals are interested in working in at least one of the Project\u2019s target areas (1).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Young professionals should have little or moderate capacity building experience in the project\u2019s thematic areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In case of high competition, preference will be given to applicants who have not previously participated in a similar training program. (1)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The project target areas include: justice, education, social security and agriculture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">For additional information, you can call the following phone number:\u00a0<strong>\u00a0010 54-01-99 or visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.budgets.am\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/budgets.am\/en<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<strong>the Budget Knowledge Sharing Platform.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>The \u201cBudgets 4 Citizens\u201d (B4C)\u00a0action (8 December, 2022 \u2013 7 December, 2026) is being implemented with the financial support of the\u00a0European Union\u00a0by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association<\/a>, in cooperation with partners\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edrc.am\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cEconomic Development and Research Center\u201d (EDRC) NGO<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.agorace.cz\/en\/domu-en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cAgora Central Europe\u201d NGO<\/a>\u00a0(Czech Republic).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you interested in the budgetary process and want to become a budget expert? Hurry to participate in the training program aimed at transferring budgetary knowledge to young professionals, implemented within the framework of the &#8220;Budgets for Citizens&#8221; project. Who can apply: Students from Finance Faculties Students from Economics Faculties Students from Management Faculties Students &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements-announcements","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9175,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173\/revisions\/9175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}