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‘Donating Their Cars, Providing Free Treatment, Giving Jobs’: How Peaceful Belarusian Protests Change Human Lives

by Valeria Volkogonova, Local Correspondent from Belarus and Alexandra Savinich (Office for European Expertise and Communications). On 1 September 2020 the UN human rights experts* called on Belarus to stop detained persons’ tortures and to hold accountable the police personnel who are reported to have humiliated and beaten with impunity the demonstrators at their detention

Georgia

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / Covid19 and the System of Education

by George Chanturia, Local Correspondent from Georgia. As it is widely known, due to COVID19, schools and kindergartens stopped working since March 2020 in many parts of the world. In Georgia, all 1,621 preschool and 2,300 general education institutions were closed. Around 164,605 preschool age children and 592,000 school students of all ages stayed at home for an

Ukraine

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / How a Ukrainian CSOs use G4NP opportunities: the case of PROVIDNYK project

by Maksym Mazypchuk, Local Correspondent from Ukraine. In June 2020, Google launched Google for Nonprofits (G4NP) in Ukraine. CSOs now have access at no charge to Google’s technology and services. Under this program, an organization can use the following services: G Suite for nonprofit organizations (business applications package, such as Gmail, Documents, Calendar, Drive, Google

Moldova

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / Online EaP Civil Society Hackathon

by Stas Ghiletchi, Local Correspondent from Moldova Roman Sandu: “The Hackathon was the most significant event of 2020” The Eastern Partnership Civil Society Facility has been organising yearly Hackathons since 2017. The goal of the activity is to bring various people together in order to create digital tools that would enable civil society to better serve

Ukraine

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / No bread to waste: e-platform idea for fighting food waste

by Maksym Mazypchuk, Local Correspondent from Ukraine. Nowadays, many bakery products are thrown in the trash. Food charity OzHarvest states that a third of all food produced globally is wasted. For Marianna Marshalenko, this is something personal. She has six years of experience in the Hospitality industry, where she implemented various projects related to Planet

Azerbaijan

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / Promoting cycling in Azerbaijan

by Ismayil Fataliyev, Local Correspondent from Azerbaijan. The number of cyclists, especially in the capital, has gone up for last years.But it is still risky to bike to work and other places. Statistically, there are 1.4 mln. cars for the population of 10 mln. Three out of four cars are driven in the capital, Baku. Naturally,

Moldova

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / The long road toward the new NGO Law in the Republic of Moldova

by Stas Ghiletchi, Local Correspondent from Moldova The cooperation with civil society as a result of the implementation of the Association Agreement has yielded mixed results over the years. The public discourse was focused more on division and conflict, than on a constructive dialogue aimed at strengthening cooperation between civil society and the public sector. This

Belarus

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / “Being in charge for more than 4 years is a way to stagnation” – How a Belarusian youth organisation has now been in existence for 25 years by changing its leaders every year

by Valeria Volkogonova, Local Correspondent from Belarus and Alexandra Savinich (Office for European Expertise and Communications). Non-formal education is something not spoken about at Belarusian schools; however, there are some NGOs, which are busy building young boys and girls’ personal capacities and promoting their participation. The Youth Education Centre Fialta NGO became one of them

Georgia

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / Labor Reform In Progress

by George Chanturia, Local Correspondent from Georgia. It is the year 2006, a cold day of December 26th. The president of Georgia, Mr. Mikheil Saakashvili signs the degree N767 which says that the minimum wage in the country should be GEL40 (Euro 11.5). (Not) surprisingly, not much has changed since then and that statement is still there is