"Advocacy Training Workshop"
REPORT
Yerevan, September 14, 2004
In the period of July 1 – September 15, 2004 Armenian Young Lawyers
Association implemented the sub-project “Training of Trainers on Advocacy
for NGOs” in the bounds of a larger project "The Armenia - Public
Sector Reform Programme", which was carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers
Inc. on the financial support of Great Britain’s Department for International
Development (DFID). The sub-project was aimed at organizing “Advocacy
Trainings” for the representatives of Armenian NGOs.
12 people, 10 representatives from 10 Armenian non-governmental organizations
of Yerevan and 2 representatives of AYLA Regional branches (Shirak and Lori)
were trained in the fifth one-day Advocacy Training Workshop, which took place
in Yerevan on September 14, 2004. AYLA provided a free of charge the training-room
for organization of the workshop. Karen Zadoyan, local expert conducted the
seminar. David Abgaryan, a local expert and Lyudvig Davtyan, assistant to the
trainer of the workshop also made reports. The workshop was conducted using
interactive methods. The participants listened to the reports, held discussions
and carried out group-works and exercises. Karen Zadoyan, AYLA President, held
a speech at the beginning of the workshop.
At first the NGO representatives introduced their organizations explained the
orientation of their organizations as well as their role and importance. They
also spoke about their expectations from the workshop. Then Karen Zadoyan took
the floor with the report on introduction to advocacy. After Mr. Zadoyan’s
report the participants introduced their key social policy problems. In the
result of the discussions of the problems, which took place, the participants
defined 3 main problems. The participants were split into 3 groups. Each group
started elaborating a strategic plan on advocacy aimed at solving its target
problem. After that Karen Zadoyan spoke about advocacy activities and introduced
the reports on the first 3 cycles of Advocacy. David Abgaryan spoke on the
next two cycles of Advocacy. Lyudvig Davtyan reported on “The Structure
of Legislative and Executive Bodies and the Legislative Processes in the Republic
of Armenia.” The reports were followed with stormy and productive discussions.
At the end, each of the 3 work-groups summarized the carried out activities,
which were based on the day’s results and introduced the elaborated strategic
plan on Advocacy. The participants summarized the results of the workshop and
made conclusions. They filled in the evaluation papers of the workshop. All
the participants received certificates.
