Grants

In the frames of the project "Towards the peaceful and tolerant Crimean society through the monitoring current laws of Ukraine on indigenous peoples and minority groups, their implementation and the involvement of these groups in decision making process" supported by International Renaissance foundation Regional Resource Agency Crimea-Perspective and Crimean Tatar Lawyers League "Initium" have conducted training for members of monitoring group. The training took place in Simferopol on September, 9, September, 17-18, 2004. The monitoring group consists of representatives from each Crimean region - 22 persons. This group will meet every 3 months for discussing of results.

Seminar topics:

September 9, 2004 "Legislative base of Europe and Ukraine as a Ground for Human Rights Monitoring in the Crimea"

Trainer: Belitzer Natalia, expert, Pylyp Orlyc Institute

Main topics:

- Main international institutes, NGOs protecting human rights and indigenous peoples
- Minority rights and civil society
- National legal acts protecting minorities rights in Ukraine
- Main international and European instruments minorities rights defense
- Modern regional tendencies of minorities human rights defense in the context of European Union enlargement

September 17-18 ,2004 Human Rights Defense: Approaches, Methods, Practice

Trainer: Pidluska Inna, Foundation "Europe XXI"

Main topics:

- What is monitoring? Examples of monitoring projects.
- Who makes monitoring and what for? Principles, tools and techniques of monitoring. Base research: what it is needed for and how to make it? How to elaborate good indicators?
- Methods of data collection. Interview. Questionnaires. Focus-groups. - Documents analysis.
- What is situational analysis and policy analysis.
- "Play ground", "players" and their roles. Monitoring and Mass Media content analysis. Standard formats and vocabulary of reports and monitoring. Elaboration of human rights system of monitoring.

Other Projects:

- Resource Center Project ( the Eurasia Foundation) 1999 - complex support of Crimean NGOs;

- Project activity of NGOs - complex educative program for NGO leaders-2000;

- Information partner of the International Renaissance Foundation in the Crimea 2001 - 2003;

- Organization of the teaching program "Peace building and conflict resolution" together with the Institute of Civil Initiatives and Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiations - October, 1999;

-Participation in the project "Volyn-Crimea". The project was implemented together with the Integration and Development Center and directed on study of Volyn NGOs positive experience of fundraising and applying this experience in the Crimea -2000;

- Participation in the Crimean Dialogue project (Search for Common Ground) as the consultative body; the project was directed on focusing efforts on establishment of neighbourhood relations among representatives of different nationalities - 2000-2001;

- The program of Local initiatives Development (together with a number of Crimean NGOs) -2000;

- The Role of NGOs in the Development of Local Communities" International Conference. Together with the Center for Ethno-social Studies, Integration and Development Center (2000);

- Organization and conduct of International Fundraising Workshop, Crimea (Together with Center for Philanthropy (Kiev), Resource Center League of Ukraine (June 5-9, 2001);

- Organization and conduct of the Second International Fundraising Workshop (June, 2002);

- Organization and conduct of International workshop "Organizational management", together with the Center of Humanitarian technologies" AHALAR" (June, 2003);

Organization of a number of presentations for different Foundations: UCAN (Ukraine Citizen Action Network), PAUCI (Polish-American-Ukrainian Cooperation Initiative) - 2003

Project "Towards the peaceful and tolerant Crimean society through the monitoring current laws of Ukraine on indigenous peoples and minority groups, their implementation and the involvement of these groups in decision making process". The aims of the project includes:

- improve organizational professionalism of human rights NGOs and local leaders in conducting monitoring activities in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea;

- to develop the monitoring network of discrimination and intolerance towards ethnic groups in Crimea;

- to spread different mechanisms of influencing decision making of public institutions (Involvement of representatives of ethnic communities in decision making process on local and regional levels).