On May 13, the Economic Policy Research Center hosted the second batch of the three-day Boot Camp in Tbilisi. The Camp is organized for the representatives of Armenian and Georgian civil society organizations within the framework of the SDC-funded project \u201cACTION – Activating Civil Society Organizations through Training and Inclusive Operational Network\u201d.<\/p>\n
Danielle Meuwly, Regional Director of the Swiss Cooperation Office for the South Caucasus, Embassy of Switzerland in Georgia, and Irina Guruli, Deputy Director at the Economic Policy Research Center, attended the opening ceremony and made the welcoming remarks.<\/p>\n
\u201cEffective networks are\u00a0crucial for\u00a0extending the reach to poor and marginalized groups\u00a0of society, achieving greater influence in policy\u00a0and increasing\u00a0social\u00a0development\u00a0impact.\u00a0The three-day Boot Camp, which is\u00a0part of\u00a0the ACTION project, is designed\u00a0to\u00a0offer the participants an opportunity to activate such a network – the Georgian-Armenian\u00a0Civil Society Network –\u00a0and stimulate\u00a0their engagement for\u00a0the benefit\u00a0of inclusive democratic processes and better development outcomes,\u201d\u00a0Danielle Meuwly noted in her address\u00a0to the participants.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWithin the project ACTION, we have already hosted the very first batch of the participants. The feedback we received, proved that the Civil Society representatives are <\/em>willing <\/em>to <\/em>actively participate <\/em>in the creation <\/em>and maintenance <\/em>of a long-lasting cooperation platform. We hope, that the second batch of the Boot Camp will also motivate participants from Armenia and Georgia, to <\/em>create <\/em>long-lasting cooperation<\/em>, <\/em>which will serve as the basis for the sustainable development in the region<\/em>\u201d, – said Irina Guruli, Deputy Director at the Economic Policy Research Center.<\/em><\/p>\n After concluding the three-day Boot Camp, the participants from the Georgian non-governmental organizations will host project participants from Armenia in their organizations.<\/p>\n The project ACTION aims at strengthening civil society representatives from the South Caucasus countries on the issues of media communication and democracy, through establishing a platform of exchange between Georgian-Azerbaijani and Georgian-Armenian civil society actors for long-term collaboration and information exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11349,"template":"","websites":[19],"news_categories":[257],"class_list":["post-11350","news_p_type","type-news_p_type","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","websites-eprc","news_categories-siakhle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n