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Conference on Citizen Participation Held in Azerbaijan
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24/11/2008
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 On November 24, ECNL in cooperation with its local implementing partner National NGO Forum of Azerbaijan (NNF), ICNL and Counterpart International held a conference on participation under the title: "Citizen Participation in Public Policies: Why does it matter?"
The main objective of this conference was to attract public attention to the issues of participation and importance of including citizens and CSOs into decision-making processes, sharing international best practices for citizen participation and identifying country-specific effective mechanisms for participation. Issues of public participation on local and national level were discussed in depth during the Conference with participation of local and international experts.
Dragan Golubovic, ECNL's Senior Legal Advisor, made a presentation on benefits of citizen participation in policy-making, some effective mechanisms that ensure participation in Central and Eastern Europe and also lessons learnt during applying these mechanisms. For more details, see attached the presentation in English.
The Conference was held within the framework of the EIDHR project “Strengthening the Legal Framework for Citizen Action through Freedom of Association” with the financial support of the European Commission and USAID Civil Society Project.
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