Description
The project aims to transfer HCLU’s 20 year experience in legal aid, advocacy, communication and organizational experience to12 chosen NGOs for whom the relevant legal approaches will prove useful in their work and in their field of activity, particularly in strategic litigation and advocacy working order to enforce human and civil rights. In the recent political atmosphere, the restructuring of HCLU and strengthening some of its programs (Political Freedoms, Roma Program) is necessary. In order to strengthen and make HCLU sustainable, the development and implementation of organizational and fundraising strategy is planned. HCLU plans to hold training programs and launches a joint online platform with the selected organizations. HCLU is dedicated to passing its knowledge in human rights and civil liberties, strategic litigation strategies and communication tools, which the NGOs will later utilize themselves or even pass along to other NGOs.
Summary of project results
The aim of the project was to transfer the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union’s (HCLU) experience in legal aid, advocacy, communication and fundraising to10 Hungarian CSOs to strengthen civil society and human rights. The objective was to raise the level of local human rights protection and advocacy activities through training, counsel and organizational development. Representatives of the CSOs actively participated in the project’s programs and as a result, they started to advocate their own cases, used HCLU’s legal toolkit and reached higher organizational levels. In the other phase of the project HCLU maintained its own organizational development project. As a result of intense strategic, legal and human resources development activities the organization became capable to address new challenges with different tools in the changing political and social environment. HCLU also developed its fundraising strategies in order to preserve its independent position as right protection NGO.
Summary of bilateral results