Civil Society Institute, Armenia organized a three-day training workshop on the topic “Strategic Planning of Organization” on July 17-20, 2014 in Tbilisi, Georgia in the framework of the project “Assisting in development of sound civil society through strategic planning and implementation” funded by the Embassy of the Czech Republic.

Eighteen representatives of NGOs and civic initiatives from Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan participated in the training.

The training addressed the following issues: analysis of the capacity of the organization in question, defining the organization’s needs, goals and objectives, strategy planning, financial planning and evaluation of the organization activities, design of a competitive project and budget, as well as skills in the field of work and cooperation with media outlets and journalists for advocacy and presentation of the organization in social networks.

Within the upcoming month the participants by applying knowledge gained at the training will develop their NGOs’ or initiatives’ Strategic Plan and trainers will assist and support them by providing on-line consultations.

The project “Assisting in development of sound civil society through strategic planning and implementation” is implemented by Civil Society Institute NGO in Armenia in partnership with NESENHUTI Brno, Czech Republic, Abkhazientercon Fund in Georgia, and Democracy Monitor in Azerbaijan with financial support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.