Shirak Regional Branch programs

Implemented projects

• Observation and monitoring activities at Presidential, NA and self-governing bodies’ elections, since 1996;
• “Lessons without Borders” /1998/;
• “STAR” Community development project /1998/;
• “Nosce Te Ipsum” (Be Self-Aware) /1999/;
• “STAR-2” Community Support Multifunctional Center /1999-2000/;
• “Think Globally, Act Locally” /2000/;
• “House Purchase Certificate” project /2000-2001/;
• “Native among Natives: equal opportunities” /2001/;
• “Monitoring of Working Conditions at the First Instance Court” /2001/;
• “Legal and juridical support to the refugees’ naturalization process” /2000-2003/;
• “Strengthening of asylum, reduction of statelessness and local integration of refugees in Shirak,
• Aragatsotn and Lori Marzes”/2003-2004/;
• “Civil Society School” /2002-2004/;
• “Civil Society Initiatives – 2004-2006”.
• “Civil Society Initiatives – 2007-2008” (Advanced Training).

• “Civil Society Initiatives” Interim Project 2007-2008

Advanced Training 

    1.  NGO sector in information society

• Information society and its challenges;

• Culture of working with information;

• Application of information technologies in the NGO activities;

• Issues of informational security;

• Internet resources for the NGO activities.

2. Office management

• Business writing; Management logistics;

• Presentation skills; personal action plan;

• Organizational structure and coordination, time management;

• Task management, Team dynamics, leadership;

• Style, event management, information management.

3. Monitoring and Participatory processes

• Community mobilization and strengthening;

• Social partnership;

• Networking and collaboration;

• Monitoring and long-term observation.

4. Advocacy; Lobbying

• What is Advocacy: issues, goals and objectives;

• Target Audiences: Identifying; support and opposition;

• Messages: Informing, persuading and moving to action;

• Fundraising: Mobilizing resources.

• Implementation

• Monitoring and Evaluation

• Lobbying

“Civil Society Initiatives” Interim Project 2007-2008

Thematic Plan of the Training for Trainers  

1. General Training Background

• Conception of the non-formal education, development history and current developments.
• The role of the training institute in the present society
• Different training schools and their typology
• Training Cycle
• Training Needs Assessment
• Training Objectives
• Adult Learning Objectives
• Training Design
• Training Methods
• Team Work,
• Leadership,
• Session Design

2. Facilitation Skills

• Questioning
• Active Listening and Paraphrasing
• Brainstorming and Mind Mapping
• The instruments used during a training
• Feedback
• Group Dynamics
• Transformation of conflicts,
• Facilitation Skills,
• Personal Action Plan 

3 . Intercultural training and preparing multipliers.

• What a culture is. Conception of the intercultural training.
• Youth and intercultural training: challenges and opportunities.
• Models of intercultural training.
• Methods of intercultural training.
• Opportunities to multiplying. Teaching of multipliers and dispersion.

4. Practical work: Community development practical activities

Participatory rapid assessment of community needs; materialised and immaterialised sub-structural mapping of the community, non-formal centers for community support, models and strategies of community development: placemaking, youth bank, dialogue and social partnership with the local authorities.

In total 160 hours