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  Within three consecutive days, on June 14-16, 2012 is going to be held meeting of community moderators and local activists from the Centers for Community Development and Local Clubs for Development on the territory of the municipalities Pavlikeni, Veliko Tarnovo and Gorna Oryahovitsa.  The Centers for Community Development are created by Center Amalipe under ‘Public monitoring on the health services in minority communities’ project funded by the Health Program of Open Society Institute. The meeting will start on June 14 at 2 p.m. and it will end in the...

Amalipe welcomed representatives of the Bulgarian-Swiss Chamber of Commerce during the Chamber's workshop with business representatives from the region of Veliko Tarnovo. On 16 June, Mr Boni Bonev, Chairman of the BSCC, Vasil Radoynovski, head of the BSCC Secretariat and other members of the Chamber visited the Community Development Center for Veliko Turnovo established by Amalipe and equipped with some of the computers donated by the Municipality of Lausanne and the Swiss Embassy within Restart proeject. Teodora Krumova presented in detail the activities of Amalipe, the organization...

  Center for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance “AMALIPE” (Bulgaria), Romani CRISS (Romania), National Roma Centrum (Macedonia), European Roma Information Office (Brussels) in cooperation with European Economic and Social Committee are organizing Hearing on Monitoring and Evaluation of the National Roma Integration Strategies. The hearing will be held in Brussels on June 26, 2012 with the aim of proposing comprehensive mechanisms for monitoring and evaluation of the National Roma Integration Strategies, with an emphasis on the health care chapter, that include:   forms...

  From June 5 to 7 Accountability and Monitoring in Health Initiative (AMHI) at OSF organized Capacity Building Consultation. It took place in Istanbul. More than 20 participants from America, Africa and Europe took part in the consultation. Center Amalipe was represented by its chairman Deyan Kolev. The purpose of the consultation was to contribute for the AMHI strategy development through discussing the following questions: 1.  What are effective or promising strategies and practices for building civil society capacity in monitoring for accountability in health? 2....

  Training on ‘How to coop with media and advocacy’ designed for community moderators from the Centers for Community Development in Bulgaria was held in Pomorie from May 28 to May 30. Over 30 people across the country attended the 3-day meeting whose main purpose was to give knowledge on how to behave in front of media, to give radio and TV-interviews, how to write press releases, and how to build relationships with regional and national media. The meeting was attended by the community moderators from Byala Slatina, Kameno, Etropole, Pavlikeni, Peshtera and...