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Stimulation of civil participation in the process of preparation of the Civil Society Forum of the Eastern Partnership
m6Leonid Kalitenya
Belarus
Implementation period of your project
2009

Short description of your project

The project on stimulation of civil participation was aimed at solving the following main problems:

1. To expand civil participation and to increase the role of civil society organizations in Belarus;

2. To involve Belarus’ civil society organizations in a wide public discussion concerning the aims and tasks of civil society in the Eastern Partnership initiative in Belarus;

3. To work out and coordinate thematic and procedural proposals for the Civil Society Forum of the Eastern Partnership;

4. To distribute the Active Citizenship Charter in Belarus and to involve a broad number of civil society organizations in the Eastern Partnership initiative as a practice of the implementation of the Charter’s articles. 

The project’s activities included

  1. The implementation of a PR campaign to inform wide layers of representatives of civil society about the Active Citizenship Charter with the help of the Internet.
  2. A round table in Homiel on 31 October 2009  “Participation of civil society in the initiative of the Eastern Partnership at a regional level”, with a discussion of the Active Citizenship Charter concerning pressing questions of participation of Belarus’ civil society in the initiative of the Eastern Partnership
  3. The implementation on 2 November 2009 of the conference “The Civil Society Forum of the Eastern Partnership: the agenda for Belarus”, during which a discussion of the Active Citizenship Charter and the role of civil participation in the actual situation of preparation of the Civil Society Forum of the Eastern Partnership was started.

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Public Union Education Center “POST” Print

Citizens' participation in organizing and holding local community holiday - "Day of Micro-region"

Duration of the case: 2 months (August, September 2005)

Prepared by: Ulad Vialichka and Alia Dziarhaim6
Public Union Education Center "POST", Republic of Belarus
April 2006

Abstract

This case is a description of successful joint implementation of big community event - "Day of micro-region" - that took place in Minsk, Belarus in autumn 2005. This case was chosen by the authors with the aim to show importance, opportunities and consequences of self-organizing citizens for joint activities at local level.

In this case the authors try to describe possible ways of changing mentality of local inhabitants, who have no tradition of self-responsibility and common actions within community and fully rely on the efforts of local authorities in solving all community problems. There is an example of creating and cultivating another approach to building relations, cooperation and sharing responsibilities between various community players and citizens at local level.

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Centre for Social Innovations Print

Course on Rural Development in Belarus
Duration of the case: 9 months (March - November 2004)
Prepared by: Leonid Kalitenja and Viatcheslav Tcherniavskiz2
Centre for Social Innovations, Republic of Belarus
January 2005

Abstract

Development of rural regions represents an urgent issue both for Europe and for Belarus. Under the rural development we consider a directed, intentional process of sustainable economic, social and political changes, as well as environmental changes, aimed at improvement of the quality of life of population, living in rural areas.

The necessity of an integrated approach to rural development is recognized both in developing countries and in advanced ones. What is the integrated approach? The integrated approach means such organization of activities aimed at development, when:

  • the key points are the society, economics, environment;
  • the development proceeds both "up", and "down": it is necessary to include politics, financing and support of the government on all levels, as well as other resources and citizens' contribution;
  • all sectors are engaged: state, private, public;
  • the basis of interrelation are partnership and cooperation.

Rural development has to be based on the interests and involvement of the community of a certain territory. It is also necessary to note, that the more a community is active and viable, the more likely it is to attract new people into this territory and prevent departure of local population.

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