Advocacy and Strategic Planning
Civil protests in 2013 highlighted the presence of an acute shortfall, related to the practical exclusion of the interests of citizens from the process of decision-making.
The current project aims to contribute to more efficient citizen participation in this process and more broadly - to develop sustainable forms of dialogue between citizens and public officials.
The objective will be achieved by increasing the skills of NGOs (as most effective vehicles for engaging civil interests in the democratic process) in strategic planning and advocacy in three cities with active citizenship - Pleven, Burgas and Stara Zagora. Project results include the increased experience of NGOs through the implementation of three pilot advocacy campaigns on current local issues, the creation of strategic frameworks addressing specific problems in the three cities, as well as models for sustainable interaction between NGOs and local authorities. Among the the primary target groups of the project are NGOs, youth activists, local authorities and the media.
The project is financed within The Support of the Bulgarian NGO′s Programme through finance mechanism of the European Economic Area for the period of 2009 - 2014.
You can learn more about the program here.
The main goal of the project was to support IRIS’s institutional development and its capacity to participate, on the basis of its experience and expertise, in the formulation of new civic strategies for organisation, participation and raising accountability in decision-making – strategies reflecting the powerful and profound transformative processes in society that are in play over the last year or so.
This project aims to support participation via capacity-building for strategic planning and advocacy in NGOs in three Bulgarian cities where protesters in 2013 were especially active: Varna, Veliko Tarnovo and Blagoevgrad. Its outcome was a raised know-how and capability of NGOs to conduct advocacy campaigns and thus participate in a more organised and efficient manner in decision-making.
Институтът за Регионални и Международни Изследвания (ИРМИ), със съдействието на Тръста за гражданско общество в централна и източна Европа, проведоха през 2009 г. проект на тема: „Тренинг и социализация на млади ромски активисти в позиции на политическо и гражданско лидерство в българската държава и общество“ с продължителност една година.
The project is aimed at improving the participation of civil society in Bulgaria in public policy formation through the ‛budget advocacy‛ approach.
The primary goal of the project was to strengthen democracy by facilitating effective representation of civil interests.
The aim of this project was to frame a perspective strategy for the policy development of the NGO sector in Bulgaria.