lecture

Participatory Governance – through this lecture participants increased their knowledge on participatory policy-making and decision-making tools and mechanisms.  

1st Academy’s lecture on “Civil Society Sector Development Trends and NPO Legal framework”: participants have the opportunity to learn on Albanian CSOs legal frame, CSOs organization, functioning and its legal forms; trend of development of the sector, decision making structures and responsibilities within organization internal rules and financial management etc.

The milestones of EU integration process of the country; the main challenges of Albania in this process; EU funding programmes for aspiring countries; role of CSOs in the EU integration process etc, were some of the issues addressed with the Academy participants.

3rd Academy’s lecture on “Organizational Development & Management”: focus on CSOs governance structures, roles, responsibilities, organizational policies and procedures, and organizational management challenges.

4th Academy’s lecture on “Financial Management-Budgeting and accounting and reporting to state authorities”: focus on financial management and its principles, budgeting and accounting in non-profit organizations, financial statements, analysis and reporting as well as liabilities and reporting in the state.

5th Academy’s lecture on “Proposal writing and EU project management”: focus on EU funding application format such as the format that requires specific knowledge to complete it and will familiarize with the specifics of the project management cycle by analyzing the challenges and making recommendations to overcome these difficulties.

6th Academy’s lecture on Strategic planning – the lecture serves as a guide to participants to further understand the role and importance of strategic planning for the organization; get to know the benefits this process brings to the organization and become familiar with the process of developing a strategic plan including steps of plan development and staff […]

7th Academy’s lecture on “Mobilization of constituency, networking and coalition building”: on the network and coalition concepts, its advantages and models, organizing and functioning models, role and members’ responsibilities’, communications among members, ethics and conflict management between partners and members etc

8th Academy’s lecture on Ensuring public support and working with the private sector -Fundraising and philanthropy – through this lecture participants increased their knowledge on the concepts and importance of fundraising as a financial sustainability tool. They were introduced to fundraising opportunities and sources of financing from different donors such as public institutions, private sector, EU funding […]

9th Academy’s lecture on Advocacy and Lobbying – through this lecture participants increased their knowledge on how to use advocacy as a tool to influence decision makers on the issues that they want to address in the community where they work and/or live.

10th Academy’s lecture on Participatory Governance – through this lecture participants increased their knowledge on participatory policy-making and decision-making tools and mechanisms.

11th Academy’s lecture on Strategic communication for NPOs – through this lecture participants increased their knowledge on effective communication, engaging audiences aiming at providing and increasing the number of supporters for their programs. The session focused on providing practical models of using public, private, social media, and knowledge of effective communicating techniques.