Description
The Spirit program is aimed to improve the Zala and Vas region’s civil sphere’s social base, transparency, and strength of participation to form actively the local community life. A new strategy of our association, a senate of rural development, new website and communication tools, and a plan of a Regional Civil Center will born to be able to empower our target group to achieve their aims on their own strength. We expected that at least 15 settlements’ community will make their own action plan – what means real actions with their active participation. For these aims we plan: community development workshops and mentoring, community survey, village’s open university, pub TV with short interviews with local people, audio-visual training, “Great days of small villages” holidays for get to know each other. Our target group is formal and non formal civil associations from villages of Zala and Vas regions where lives less than 1500 people.
Summary of project results
The Spirit program was aimed to improve the Zala and Vas region’s civil sphere’s social base, transparency, and strength of participation to form actively the local community life. To ensure the aims the project promoter designed two different activity groups. First created a new strategy of the organisation, a new workgroup for rural development, a new website and communication tools, and a plan of a Regional Civil Center. Secondly the project promoter builded a complex development system to empower the target group. The involved NGOs and community groups received continous mentoring. The mentors helped the involved 15 NGOs and groups during they formed their action plans. To the actions more than 500 local inhabitants were involved from villages of Zala and Vas regions.
Summary of bilateral results