Description
The project addresses the need to set up partnership networks and coalitions of NGOs in the Northeast Region in the field of sustainable development and environment protection in order to multiply the benefits and impact of all NGOs working as partners. First, potential partners will be identified and contacted and 3 groups will be formed: small and medium-sized municipalities, large municipalities with industrial and port areas, NGO groups dealing with sustainable development and environmental protection. Then, the partnership network will be set up. Second, the partners will develop and agree on a strategy for the network operation. Third, a database of the experts in the partner organizations will be created. The experts will be trained in sustainable development and environment protection and action plans will be prepared by the relevant partners from the network. The project will benefit both target groups of local NGOs and communities.
Summary of project results
The implemented project activities made it possible to encourage and train representatives and experts from all target groups via informal education, surveys and discussions. The sustainable benefits include a strategy and action plan developed for the partnership network (PN), action plans developed for the partners, trained experts from the PN to work in the social communities. The published and disseminated printed information materials and the survey held via meetings and discussions about the benefits from the project enabled the dissemination of good practices in the PN. The impact achieved by the project enabled the following changes through the methods of informal education as well as involvement of young people, NGOs, municipal authorities and business representatives: reflect the common concern about the issues of the local and the European community related to sustainable development and environment protection (SDEP), promote tolerance and the sense of European belonging to help people understand their role as part of the present and future Europe The project implementation resulted in the following impact: raised public awareness and creating the spirit of involvement in local initiatives for tolerant solution of SDEP issues. The impact influenced all target groups in the project (NGOs, decision makers, the business, local authorities). The relations between the business, public organizations and NGOs stabilized through the setting up of the stakeholders’ group and the development of long-term measures and activities for tolerant solution of SDEP issues.
Summary of bilateral results