OSCE organizes summer school for Ukrainian civil society leaders
STRILKI, Ukraine, 8 August 2008 - Twenty-five leaders of Ukrainian regional civil society organizations attended a summer school that ended in the Lviv region today.
Participants focused on management, organizational sustainability, effective communication and negotiation skills, managing personnel and working with volunteers, and on project management and reporting.
"I have experience with civil society organizations However, this summer school helped to systematize my knowledge and identify weak management sides that exist in the work of our organization," said Inga Dudnik from the children's ecological organization Flora.
Sergiy Yermakov of the Kherson Region Charity Fund Zakhist said the OSCE and the civil society development project provided an opportunity to learn about management, exchange ideas and establish close contacts with colleagues in other regions. "We lack such communication on a regional level," he said..
The one-week camp was the second such event this year organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine as part of a project financed by the Danish Foreign Ministry. The first summer school took place in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa in July.