Citizens Participation Week 20-26 September 2010

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After our successful and very enjoyable Citizens Participation University an even bigger task is coming for the fall of 2010. The Citizens Participation Week ranked as the highest priority in our Network activities. toto

This year we have a new opportunity, what the “CODE OF GOOD PRACTICE FOR CIVIL PARTICIPATION IN THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS” offered us. CEE CN made some important efforts to help the Council of Europe (through the conference of INGOs) to bring this document to the surface, as we all felt important to give birth to the first very official material, which helps the promotion and enforcement of citizens participation in all European levels.
That is now a really good tool to campaign with, to campaign for…

http://www.coe.int/t/ngo/Source/Code_good_practice_en.pdf

CEE CN will try to lead this document to the public consciousness, and probably the CPW is the most appropriate event to do this. That of course needs some further technical and creative work, like translation, distribution, promotion, link with CPW activities, but can help to make some larger steps with our common issues.

Apart from the code, there can be several other points where we could harmonize our CPW activities, framework, promotion, survey, e-technologies etc. A number of these were mentioned at the CPU as well, that is why we kindly ask you to share your ideas, thoughts and expectations on the CPW planning wiki site, what is very simple to use, you will see that: http://cpw-arh.wikispaces.com/CPW+2010

We also ask our regional coordinators to help to involve all countries to the planning process, as well as the creation of local/national activity plans for the CPW.

Do take a part, it depends on US!

PRESS INFO:

cpw-press-2010.doc