News from TRIALOG

TRIALOG hopes that you all enjoyed a relaxing and refreshing summer break and that you are back with a lot of renewed energy for upcoming events and activities. We would like to invite you to read the current issue of TIS.

There are few updates from our office. In September our new Policy Officer Monika Matus started in Brussels and replaced Rebecca Steel-Jasińska who is now on maternity leave. Monika’s previous experiences include international capacity building trainings and facilitation especially within the GLEN Europe network, cooperation with the DEEEP project, several development cooperation projects in West and East Africa, awareness campaigns on issues like gender in development or decent work in Southern countries and others. She recently worked with CEE Bankwatch and Friends of the Earth Europe for the campaign challenging the European Investment Bank’s engagement in development. Also in September Elisa Romero started as Office Assistant replacing Brigitte Quehenberger who is on maternity leave. Elisa holds a degree in International Cultural and Business Studies with an emphasis on Latin American cultures from the University of Passau, Germany. Before joining TRIALOG she worked as assistant to the director at TRIALOG’s lead agency HORIZONT3000. Additionally new in our team are two temporary interns, Jess Blijkers in the Vienna Office and Karina Mereuta in Brussels.

We would also like to announce that we have revised TRIALOG’s Capacity Building Guidelines which detail TRIALOG’s capacity building activities, as well as the regulations in place to access TRIALOG´s support for capacity building. Please take a look at them: Capacity Building Guidelines.

The preparations for the Nicaragua conference in November are going on. Please have a look at the updated agenda. In a couple of days you will also find a complete translation of the Reader for the conference available in Spanish on our Website. This translation work was made possible through the UNV Online Volunteering Service (http://www.onlinevolunteering.org/) .

Happy reading!