Description
Project aims to strengthen Latvian civil society and the LSQ's operation by expanding the LSQ from local to the national level organization, establishing regional support centers, as well as strengthening institutional and human resource capacity of LSQ and North Kurzeme NGO Support Centre for regular and long-term participation in policy-making and decision-making process. During the project the LSQ will participate in a working group of the Ministry of Economy, events organized by Latvian and foreign NGOs, it will organize informative events for society, trainings for members and volunteers, experience exchange visits and publicity activities. It will elaborate LSQ mid-term strategy, form a management system and develop basic activity process maps, create Latvian NGO cooperation network and involve volunteers.
Summary of project results
During the implementation of the project the Latvian Society for Quality (KVALB) has successfully carried out its objectives – popularise the principles of good management and transparency, as well as the principles of democracy and participatory democracy, initiate the KVALB activity transition to a national level organization by creating two regional support centres in cooperation with Kurzeme NGO Support Centre (KNVOAC) and Zemgale NGO Centre (ZNVOC). The target group of Project was 2 NGO, 95 NGO members (both members and volunteers). The results of the project: To encourage the participation of the civic society in the policy making process, members of the KVALB have taken part in 8 work groups and organizations (e.g. work on the Cabinet of Ministers Memorandum council, a work group created on KVALB initiative (in cooperation with the Ministries of Welfare, and Education and Science) to make corrections to the Profession classificator of the Republic of Latvia, activity on the council of the Latvian National Accreditation Bureau,as well as the standardization technical commission, volunteer participation in the Latvian national standardization body’s Latvian Standard organized translation of the new ISO standards editions, discussion group at the State Chancellery). A successful cooperation with the State Chancellery has been formed. Altogether four 4 trainings were organized for participants of NGO (both members and volunteers) During the implementation of the project there have also been several experience exchange events and trips to other NGOs (1 international experience exchange visit, 7 Latvian NGOs exchange visits) The KVALB medium-term strategic document has been developed, as well as the principal activity process map. During the implementation of the project several interest groups operated and their activity is planned to continue after the end of the project. Work on KVALB regional support/ competence centre development was begun and successfully continued in cooperation with KNVOAC, thus creating a Latvian NGO cooperation network. Currently KVALB has two regional support centres – in Kurzeme region and in Zemgale region. A nationwide conference on good management principles was successfully organized (100participants
Summary of bilateral results