Organization: Lviv City NGO “Information Consulting Center” (79010, Lviv, Sevastopolska St., 5/5, tel. (0322) 35-68-48) Project Manager: Volodymyr Bryhilevych Project Description: Ensuring the participation of specialists from Tajikistan in the international seminar for representatives of condominium associations and NGOs, bodies of local self-government and municipal housing utility companies (Lviv, April 15-16, 2010). Setting up a training program for managers of condominiums, utility companies and municipal housing administrations, accompanied by the publication of corresponding brochures. Applying the experience of Lithuania and Poland in the reform of municipal utility companies in cities, stimulating the forming of a market of quality municipal housing services provided by the central government and local self-government. Comparing the practical aspects of the functioning of associations of homeowners in Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and Tajikistan and organizing cooperation with the providers of services. Partners: Krakow Association of real Estate Managers (Poland), NGO “European Integration Studies Centre” (Lithuania). Grant: UAH 16,210 Organization: Luhansk Oblast Yuri Yenenko Charitable Foundation (91003, Luhansk, Shevchenko Quarter, 36/28, tel. (0642) 63 70 10) Project Manager: Olena Yenenko Project Description: Ensuring the participation of experts from Kyrgyzstan in seminars on issues of legal aid and inter-institutional cooperation in the palliative sphere, the philosophy of hospices and psychological counseling of the ailing and their close relatives (Luhansk, March 28-April 1, 2010). Exchange of experience between Ukrainian, Czech and Kyrgyzstan specialists on improving the health care system and social protection in the sphere of palliative care. Creating favorable conditions for the formation of a system of public monitoring of the activity of the government in implementation of systems of palliative care in the Luhansk oblast. Publication of conclusions and recommendations as to the application of the best foreign practices based on the results of the project. Partner: “Homecoming Non-Profit Hospice Organization” (Czech Republic). Grant: UAH 17,487
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Organization: Youth NGO “Institute of Sustainable Development” (61031, Kharkiv, Romashkina St., 8а, Office 2, tel. (057) 77-55-672) Project Manager: Stanislav Ignatiev Project Description: International conference on the issue of public monitoring of the energy sector (Kyiv, November 5-6, 2010). Engaging civil society in the management and distribution of revenues from activity in the sphere of transportation of energy resources for economic and social development and guaranteeing energy security in the regions. Presentation of the state of affairs of Ukraine and Georgia joining the EITI. Partners: Revenue Watch Institute (Azerbaijan), Open Society Georgia Foundation (Georgia), Public Finance Monitoring Program (Azerbaijan), Soros Foundation Kazakhstan, Q-Club (Ukraine). Grant: UAH 71,793 Organization: Donetsk Oblast Charitable Foundation “Help for Disabled Children” (83087, Donetsk, Kalinina St., 42, Office 5, tel. (062) 389-17-61, (062) 387-71-01) Project Manager: Bohdan Shepelyuk Project Description: Conducting the International Academy (Donetsk, November 26-December 2, 2010) with the aim of disseminating the best practices of the policy of inclusion of children with special needs. Fostering the implementation of the inclusion policy and the system of early intervention in schools and kindergartens and reviewing the psychological aspects of assistance to families that are raising children with special needs. Partners: Latvian Portage Association (LaPA), Georgian Portage Association (GPA). Grant: UAH 125,328
IRF • 2010 Annual Report • East East: Partnership Beyond Borders Program