Local Correspondents – Page 4 – EASTERN PARTNERSHIP

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / Mingachevir, the City of the Youth, and Civic Activism

by Ismayil Fataliyev, Local Correspondent from Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan is the country with one of the highest percentages of the millennials’ generation in Europe. State and civil-society organizations try to actively involve the youth in the life of society. The first ones prefer to focus on ensuring the physical, spiritual and psychological development of the new generation,

Armenia

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / Life in a Small Town or How a Ukrainian Town Motivates the Development of Small Towns in Armenia

by Mari Chakryan, Local Correspondent from Armenia Modern trends in urbanization indicate that people are striving mostly for big cities, where life is in full swing, and opportunities are in abundance. But life can be full and happy in small towns too. For example, people here are more friendly than in big cities, time is

Belarus

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / Disposable does not mean sterile. Is the pandemic to save our planet or will nothing change?

by Valeria Volkogonova, Local Correspondent from Belarus and Alexandra Savinich (Office for European Expertise and Communications). COVID-19 has served to transform our attitudes towards many other things beyond disease, death, healthcare or pharmacology. We have all witnessed “the sky and the air clearing out,” when plants and factories in China (and not only) grounded to

Armenia

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / COVID-19 and Public Participation in Decision-making

by Mari Chakryan, Local Correspondent from Armenia Most governments responding to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have declared a state of emergency and adopted a number of measures to combat the spread of the virus, which have often included restrictions on the freedoms of assembly and movement. Meetings and gatherings have been cancelled, certain activities of

Moldova

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / Grassroots Matter: Success Stories of Community Projects

by Stas Ghiletchi, Local Correspondent from Moldova May 15th was the deadline to for the second call launched within the project “Civil Society Development in the Republic of Moldova”. The budget of the second call will be around EUR 1 million and will finance various activities that promote and encourage good governance such as: community mobilization

Azerbaijan

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / Salaam Cinema: Creative Community Space in Baku

by Ismayil Fataliyev, Local Correspondent from Azerbaijan. For ages Baku has been a multinational, multicultural, multilingual city i.e. a city of contrasts. This refers not only to people’s background or origin but also to the different ways of self-expression. The youth and the ideas they put forward have always played a specific and driving role in

Ukraine

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / How CSOs React and Adapt to Challenges of COVID 19: the Case of Anti-Crisis Fund IF

by Maksym Mazypchuk, Local Correspondent from Ukraine. Civil society organizations in many countries are facing pandemic challenges. Civic activists have shifted their work from their usual and planned activity to emergency relief. New initiatives emerging at the local level appear to be more collaborative in nature. In Ivano-Frankivsk, civil society organizations have established a partnership

Azerbaijan

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / New School – New Opportunities

by Ismayil Fataliyev, Local Correspondent from Azerbaijan. “I thought it would be a great chance, a door to the future. So many opportunities. You study abroad and get a scholarship,” says Ayla Akhmedova, 17 years old Azerbaijani teenager. “Along with studying for free in a foreign country, you are surrounded with so many people from different

Moldova

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / Rethinking urban planning and city transport

by Stas Ghiletchi, Local Correspondent from Moldova The good news is that more and more countries are starting to lift restrictions on social and economic life imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But even better news is the fact that governments are aiming to rethink and rebuild their economies in a different way. A way that