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Support to the capacity building and networking of Belarusian NGOs and LAs
Monday, 15 June 2009

The EC supported small support measure aimed at capacity building and networking of Belarusian Non Governmental Organizations and Local Authorities was implemented during 2008 and the beginning of 2009. The purpose of the support measure was, beside capacity building events, to promote  EC programs for Belarus in general and in specific  the  thematic program ‘Non State Actors – Local Authorities in development’ (NSA-LA), which first call was launched in January 2008.

Download summary of the final report (pdf, 93,1 Kb)

 
Decentralized cooperation M&E report
Monday, 19 January 2009

With the EU enlargement Belarus became an immediate neighbour of the EU. The main EU objectives towards Belarus were formulated in the Country Strategy Paper for Belarus as follows: “… Belarus to be democratic, stable, reliable and increasingly prosperous partner with which the enlarged EU will share not only common borders, but also a common agenda driven by shared values.

Belarus became eligible for the Decentralised Cooperation Programme as a country of ‘difficult partnership’, where national government is not committed to the principles of decentralisation, good governance and civil society participation in policy development.

In the framework of 2007-2013 budget perspective the DC and the NGO co-financing budget lines have been replaced by the new thematic programme "Non-state actors and local authorities in development" (NSA-LA programme) covered in the Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI). The NSA-LA programme’s overall objective is poverty reduction in the context of sustainable development, including pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and other internationally agreed targets. Therefore, the DC programme is currently operating only in terms of management of ongoing projects and closure of the completed projects.    

In this regard, a mid-term evaluation of DC programme is conducted.

 

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Unknown Belarus. Development of small towns in the XXI Century
Thursday, 13 November 2008
On 1-2 November, a seminar and a conference «The Unknown Belarus. Development of small towns in the XXI century» took place in Belarus. It was one of the phases of the study of small towns in Belarus, which is being conducted by the Humanitarian Technology Agency and the Center for Social Innovation. The idea of this research was developed a year and a half ago. Its meaning and purpose were to research and to understand the life in today's small towns: people’s lifestyles, how they build relationships, how they spend spare time, what are their perceptions and ways of thinking, how they alter the current trends in tangible and intangible world. It all is important to understand in order to be adequate in estimates, plans and actions. Within the framework of this program, a series of research expeditions into the small towns took place that were organized as research operations. It is impossible to understand a town lifestyle not being a part of it or without interaction with it. It is in collaboration with the town as a special entity, a special type of settlement, a special system of mutual organisaiton of residents in the settlement. Such collaboration is better manifested in internal communications and relations, decision-making systems, ways of thinking and action, images of life. Such data on the life of a town and its citizens can not be obtained from statistical reports, opinion polls or other methods of scientific research.
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Freedom of association and the legal status of NGOs in Belarus
Saturday, 03 May 2008


We would like to introduce you here the materials of actual research "Freedom of association and the legal status of NGOs in Belarus, 2007", that was kindly offered for publication at our website by the authors - experts of Assembly of Pro-democratic NGOs in Belarus within the frames of cooperative research with  Foundation For Legal Technologies Development. The text of research is available in Belarusian (pdf, 222 Kb)Russian (pdf, 223 Kb) and English (pdf, 122 Kb) versions.

 
Assessment of Foreign Donors' Policies by Belarusian NGOs
Tuesday, 29 January 2008


Support to Civil Society in Belarus: a view from within. Final report of a survey of Belarusian NGOs "An Assessment of Foreign Donors' Policies by Belarusian NGOs"

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Over the Hedge: Comparing Life in Lithuania and Belarus
Tuesday, 29 January 2008

Eastern Europe Studies Centre (www.eesc.lt) has successfully prepared a comparative socioeconomical study about Life in Lithuania and Belarus. The main objective of the research was to show the pros and cons of living in Lithuania (an EU and NATO member) and in Belarus (CIS member). The EESC experts gathered information about prices of wide variety of goods and services in both countries and compared them in the context of local earnings. The caricatures and visual representation of the statistical data makes this analytical study highly attractive. The study was pulished in three languages: Lithuanian, English and Russian.

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Belarusian-European cooperation: the vision and estimation of the European partners
Tuesday, 27 November 2007

The continuation of the research on the materials of the interview, conducted within the framework of the “Support to the development of the potential and network cooperation of Belarusian NGOs and the local authorities” project in April – September 2007. The interviewed were representing major NGOs of the European countries, which took part in EU and EU member countries’ projects. 

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BELARUS: How serious is official call to phase out foreign clergy?
Wednesday, 10 October 2007

By Geraldine Fagan, Forum 18 News Service www.forum18.org, and Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service www.forum18.org
The Catholic Church is unsure about the implications of remarks by Belarusian Vice-premier Aleksandr Kosinets about foreign clergy. With about 190 foreign priests plus more than 100 nuns, the Catholic Church is by far the religious community in Belarus which relies most heavily on foreign clergy. Kosinets told a 19 September round table with Belarus' religious leaders that the Catholic Church should end the use of foreign clergy over the next few years. However, Forum 18 News Service has been unable to clarify whether this is a recommendation or an order. "The Vice-premier's words arouse questions and perplexities rather than outright concern," a senior Catholic told Forum 18. Religious affairs official Aleksandr Kalinov, who was also present at the round table, refused to tell Forum 18 if action will be taken if the Catholic Church does not end the use of foreign priests, but insisted: "No-one is preparing to expel them." The Catholic Church – like the Orthodox Church – also has a number of foreign-born bishops, while other religious communities – including Jews – have foreign religious leaders.

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Belarus: vegetable crop will exceed 2 million MT
Monday, 01 October 2007

Warsaw - According to the information presented by representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of Belarus for the Interfax Agency, the country plans to harvest more than 2 million MT of vegetables in the present season. “We forecast the vegetable crop to reach 2,08 million MT, which will draw level with the 2006 crop”, announced Belarusian experts. 

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Majority of Ukrainians living in Belarus vote for Party of Regions
Monday, 01 October 2007

The majority of Ukrainian citizens who took part in the Ukrainian parliamentary elections in Belarus, cast their votes in favour of the Party of Regions. 

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