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#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / Grassroots Matter: Success Stories of Community Projects

by Stas Ghiletchi, Local Correspondent from Moldova May 15th was the deadline to for the second call launched within the project “Civil Society Development in the Republic of Moldova”. The budget of the second call will be around EUR 1 million and will finance various activities that promote and encourage good governance such as: community mobilization

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / Salaam Cinema: Creative Community Space in Baku

by Ismayil Fataliyev, Local Correspondent from Azerbaijan. For ages Baku has been a multinational, multicultural, multilingual city i.e. a city of contrasts. This refers not only to people’s background or origin but also to the different ways of self-expression. The youth and the ideas they put forward have always played a specific and driving role in

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / How CSOs React and Adapt to Challenges of COVID 19: the Case of Anti-Crisis Fund IF

by Maksym Mazypchuk, Local Correspondent from Ukraine. Civil society organizations in many countries are facing pandemic challenges. Civic activists have shifted their work from their usual and planned activity to emergency relief. New initiatives emerging at the local level appear to be more collaborative in nature. In Ivano-Frankivsk, civil society organizations have established a partnership

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / New School – New Opportunities

by Ismayil Fataliyev, Local Correspondent from Azerbaijan. “I thought it would be a great chance, a door to the future. So many opportunities. You study abroad and get a scholarship,” says Ayla Akhmedova, 17 years old Azerbaijani teenager. “Along with studying for free in a foreign country, you are surrounded with so many people from different

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / Rethinking urban planning and city transport

by Stas Ghiletchi, Local Correspondent from Moldova The good news is that more and more countries are starting to lift restrictions on social and economic life imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But even better news is the fact that governments are aiming to rethink and rebuild their economies in a different way. A way that

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / When a State of Emergency Unites People and the Government

by Mari Chakryan, Local Correspondent from Armenia The first case of coronavirus in Armenia was registered on March 1, 2020. Until that day, most citizens, and even some members of the government, believed that the coronavirus infection was no threat to Armenia, and even joked that Armenian cornel vodka or mulberry vodka and garlic were

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / The Response of Ukraine Civil Society to Covid-19

by Maksym Mazypchuk, Local Correspondent from Ukraine. People have to keep social distancing in the midst of a global health crisis. In this time, solidarity and social compassion play an important role. COVID 19 has changed the work of Ukrainian CSOs, which are facing unprecedented difficulties while working during “lockdown”. Many organizations are adapting to

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / Children learning during COVID-19

by Stas Ghiletchi, Local Correspondent from Moldova COVID-19 has shut the world’s schools. Since the start of the pandemic, over 100 countries had taken a decision to close the classrooms. The Republic of Moldova followed the example of other countries and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research suspended the education process in early March. Initially,

#LocalCorrespondent Opinion / How COVID-19 changed life in Belarus

How COVID-19 changed life in Belarus: restaurants send food to hospitals, teachers sew face masks, and volunteers deliver them by Valeria Volkogonova, Local Correspondent from Belarus and Alexandra Savinich (Office for European Expertise and Communications) Many civic activists, NGO leaders, and managers work from home for almost two months. Self-isolation is voluntary in Belarus, and