On 6 July, Mr. Vigen Shirvanyan, Expert of the “Commitment to Constructive Dialogue” Project partner “Armenian Centre for Democratic Education-CIVITAS” NGO, delivered a lecture on “Education: The need to improve, monitor and advocate a career counseling system at schools.” He presented the theme and discussed the sectoral issues.

Further Mr. Vigen Shirvanyan and Coordinator/Lawyer of the ALA Vanadzor branch Mr. Artur Sukiasyan provided individual consultations to CSOs of Vanadzor Incubator, who are engaged in education, social, justice, human rights, public finance and also other issues that are beyond the scope of the 9 project target sectors

Civil society organisations (CSO) incubators are aimed at promoting CSO capacity building and enhancing productivity.

The “Commitment to Constructive Dialogue” Project is implemented with the financial support of the European Union by a Consortium of civil society organizations, which are “Armenian Lawyers’ Association”, Agora Central Europe o.p.s (an NGO from the Czech Republic), Armenian Center for Democratic Education-CIVITAS, “International Center for Human Development” Public Organization, SME Cooperation Association and Union of Communities of Armenia.

The overall objective of the project is to enhance the influence of CSOs on the public policy process, and the specific objectives are to strengthen the ability of CSOs to build coalitions and focus on constructive and strategic policy engagement with local and central government partners. This will enable organizations (which already work in targeted coalitions) to acquire new resources, to join and encourage the civil society experts to engage in and encourage their participation in the formation of the local and national policies agenda; to identify common issues and priorities; and to address the government with constructive and strategic policy initiatives.

The project has a sub-granting component, under which grants will be provided to CSOs and CSOs Coalitions, which will be directed to the development of public policies and will have tangible results in 9 target areas, including justice, education and business.