Description
Poverty and exclusion significantly limit children's development and enhance the risk of health and social problems. Therefore, it is continually necessary to develop services and provide financial support for these children. The overall objective of the project is to support the development of civil society and strengthen the NGOs, especially Kuusalu Child Welfare's capability to fulfill its role in influencing society and increasing social well-being on local and national level. This project is focused particulary on the board and the members of Kuusalu Child Welfare in shaping the common perception and aims to improve the understanding their goals, involving active volunteers, local government staff, council members and potential sponsors and businesses. 6 training days will be organised for the NGO members, volunteers and partners that will strengthen the Kuusalu Child Welfare. Professionally based management ensures more opportunities and better position to negotiate with local decision-makersa and the awareness of the NGO’s objectives and activities will clarify the rationale behind the needed cooperation.
Summary of project results
The general objective of the Project was to support development of civil society by improving efficiency of Kuusalu Child Welfare Society (KLS) in performing its role of increasing social welfare. For this the following sub-objectives were set and reached: 1) the management of Kuusalu Child Welfare Society was reorganized; the well-functioning and active organization is now capable to cooperate with different specialists and institutions and knows how to involve volunteers; 2) the KLS has obtained skills of communication and advocacy; 3) organization’s development has been reviewd by using the EQUASS quality system; 4) cooperation has been started with numerous similar organizations; 5) organization's homepage is now more visible and regularly updated. These objectives were reached by organizing trainings on teamwork and round tables. The beneficiaries of the KLS are children and their families for whom new support and advocacy actions were developed.
Summary of bilateral results