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Increasing civil society involvement in our work

The Conference “Partnership for Good Governance: enhancing the co-operation with civil society” will take place on 2 June 2017 in Room G6 of Agora building, Council of Europe.

The scope of the conference is to look for mechanisms for significantly increasing the involvement of NGOs and civil society at large in the Partnership for Good Governance (PGG) projects. This will be pursued through:

  • Examining the successful and unsuccessful attempts of project teams to involve civil society
  • Making use of the conclusions reached by the PGG regional civil society project and the draft CoE guidelines for promoting civil participation in decision-making
  • Making use of the expertise of the INGO Conference and its thematic committees in the respective thematic areas and projects
  • Identifying contact persons and/or members of INGOs who could be involved in the CoE projects during the second PGG stage

The new study "Civil Participation in Decision Making in the Eastern Partnership Countries Part II: Practice and Implementation" has just been published and will be launched during the conference, at 15:30. It contains 24 case studies from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus, and includes a set of recommendations for each country, lessons learned for the Eastern Partnership region and a regional strategy.

 Conference programme
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Strasbourg 31 May 2017
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Specific objective 1: support the alignment of human rights policies and practice by ensuring compliance of legislative and regulatory frameworks with European standards and capacity-building for legal professionals and National Human Rights Institutions, including the reinforcement of Ombudsmen Offices

Indicators:

  • relevant national legislation is in place and/or amended in line with European human rights standards (criminal justice, social rights, non-discrimination, data protection, social rights).
  • institutional mechanisms and structures are in place and/or operational (e.g. Human Rights Centres, Focal Points and mechanisms as required by conventions, institutionalised consultation procedures).
  • relevant professional groups have knowledge about human rights standards and are able to apply them in their work.
  • relevant national training organisations have strengthened capacity to continuously and sustainably train their target groups on human rights standards.
  • interaction between civil society and authorities in the democratic decision-making process is reinforced.
  • national parliaments have increased awareness of the necessity to revise national legislation and bring it in line with the European Social Charter (revised) as ratified by their country.

 

Specific objective 2: support the full execution of the European Court of Human Rights judgments through reinforcement of parliamentary involvement

Indicators:

  • increased awareness of members of parliaments in the EaP countries’ on the existing parliamentary mechanisms to ensure execution of European Court of Human Rights judgments.
  • increased compliance of the national legal framework with the European Convention of Human Rights and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights.
  • parliamentary committees’ staffs have better capability to assist MPs in ensuring compatibility of national legislation with the ECHR and compliance with European Court of Human Rights case-law.