The round table in Bratislava, organised by the Slovak NGDO Platform MVRO, was part of a project led by Polish CASE (Centre for Social and Economic Research) and British ODI (Overseas Development Institute) with the participation of the NGDO platforms fr
om the Visegrad group (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia).The primary topics of the Bratislava round table were climate change and its impacts on developing countries. The inputs were presented by different experts: Milan Lapin from Slovak Comenius University, Jan Szczycinski from UNDP and Jiri Jerabek from Czech Centre for Transport and Energy. The provided information and arguments around climate changes and its impacts enabled participants from NGOs to develop further ideas how to strengthen their advocacy work before and after the UN conference on climate change which will take place in Copenhagen in December 2009. The second part of the round table was led by Nick Scott from ODI and focused on using online communication tools (emails, websites, blogs, etc.) in order to improve the capacities of NGOs in the area of public campaigning.
The Bratislava round table was the fourth one in a series of round tables (in Warsaw, Prague and Budapest) in the scope of the project ‘Fostering Global Responsibility: Building a Development Policy Knowledge Network to Enhance NGO Public Outreach Initiatives in EU New Member States’. The main objective of the project is to promote a greater understanding of development challenges, to facilitate greater public support in New Member States for poverty reduction efforts and to contribute to a more strategic and evidence-informed policy dialogue and engagement for international development issues.
More information and presentations can be found at: http://www.development-network.eu/
Foto: Discussion with Milan Lapin from Comenius University
Information provided by Daniela Balážová, MVRO
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