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Stimulation of civil participation in the process of preparation of the Civil Society Forum of the Eastern Partnership
Leonid 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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