LAST UPDATE:

ACTIVITIES IN JULY 2010

During the month of July hCa/ORC Tuzla has worked on regular activities – processing of interesting information for youth activism and distribution of the same towards the youth organizations and members of the mailing list of Youth Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as editing and distribution of Monthly bulletin of Youth Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina and regular update of the web page: www.omladina-bih.net.

FOCUS GROUP IN TUZLA

On 9th of July we have participated in the organization of the Focus Group, whose thematic was: safety, possession of firearms – justified or not, dangers that come with carrying firearms, amount of firearms possessed by citizens and prevention against illegal firearms and violence.

10 citizens from Tuzla participated in the work of the Focus Group, representatives of NGOs, student organizations and Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Focus Group was organized by the Centre for Safety Studies (CSS) Sarajevo.

CHOSEN ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE NETWORK OF RESOURCE CENTRES (MRC) B&H

In the organization of Centre for Promotion of Civil Society (SPCD) Sarajevo, in Sarajevo on 23rd of July was held a consultative workshop of initiatives for the formation of Network of Resource Centers (MRC) B&H. Purpose and goal of the meeting was the establishment of functional resource centers in B&H, as a basis of long-term cooperation and partnership of resource centers and partnership organizations. The meeting was attended by the following NGOs from B&H: UG Don, Prijedor, Topeer, Doboj, CGS Livno, CEM Travnik, CIPP, Zvornik, Plava Sfera, Banja Luka, Kljuc buducnosti, Kljuc, LSG, Travnik, ORC Tuzla.
Main mission of the Network of Resource Centers is to ensure for all of the organizations of civil society in B&H an equal approach to the information and other resources necessary for the effective performance of their role in the community and society.

Main goals of the Network of Resource Centers are:

- To contribute to the further development of civil society in B&H via establishing the network of 5 regional resource centers as an infrastructure organizations for support of the development of the capacity of the organizations of civil society;
- Support for the development of participative democracy via greater participation of citizens in the decision making process and the process of creation of public policies;
- Facilitation and support for the development of dialogue and partnership of government and civil society via development and implementation of agreement about inter-sector cooperation;
- Raising of the prestige of the organization of civil society as a factor of development and positive changes in community and society.

Based on the conclusions from the joint meeting, CPCD has chosen 6 organizations which will be involved in the program of development of regional resource centers:

1. Tolerancijom protiv razlicitosti (Topeer), Doboj
2. Centar za granansku suradnju (CGS), Livno
3. Agencija lokalne demokratije (LDA) Mostar
4. Centar za Edukaciju Mladih (CEM), Travnik
5. Omladinski resursni centar (ORC), Tuzla
6. DON, Prijedor

More information about the Resource Centers and about the network of civil society can be found on the web page: www.civilnodrustvo.ba, on which you can apply for the membership, if you have not done it until now. Also, more information about the regional Resource Centers, as well as plenty information and links about the news in the NGO sector in B&H, news, donors and grants can be found on the web page www.sporazum.ba

Call for the project proposals of the members of Anna Lindh Foundation (www.euromedalex.org) has been because of the technical problems and lack of funds deferred. In the enclosure is a calendar of activities related to applying. We remind you that only members of ALF are eligible for applying.

Related to the call for project proposals, Directors Board of ALF has on the last meeting made the following guidelines:

1. Entire sum of the funds for project proposals of the members is 500 000 €
2. Call for the project proposals will focus on the migration and diversity, and the projects should last for 6 months
3. Entire number of the project proposals which will be approved is 25 to 30.

STEP DATE COMMENTS

PLANNED ACTIVITIES IN THE AUGUST OF 2010

Continuation of work of hCa/ORC Tuzla on the regular distribution of information towards the youth organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the editing and the distribution of the Monthly bulletin of Youth Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina;

Continuation of the coordination of B&H Network, within the Anna Lindh Foundation.

"Regional Youth Action against the Discrimination"
"Social convergence, equal participation of minorities in B&H"

Discrimination of youth and ethnic minorities in field of employment
BRCKO DEBATE

REPORT

At the end of 2009 and in begging of 2010, ORC Tuzla (as part of project "Regional Youth Action against the Discrimination") worked on the development of statistics and analysis of the situation "Social convergence, equal participation of minorities in B&H". One of the main objectives of this project is primarily to raise awareness of citizens of B&H about the importance of combating discrimination in B&H and the region, with special emphasis on youth.

Results of this activity shoved that greatest level of discriminations for youth in Brcko District BiH are in following areas:
1. Employment
2. School system
3. Discrimination by government of Brcko District BiH

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REPORT FROM TRANING FOR TRAINERS

Place: Laktasi, Hotel "SAN"

Date: 25 - 27.02.2010.

Introduction:
During those three days of training participants were teach about basics of training skills and were provided with needed knowledge and gain some practical experience in providing trainings by taking active role as trainer during training duration.

Most of the work was implemented in small groups and interaction during training with practical tasks and group work was assuring group dynamic needed for personal development and raising self esteem at individual participants.

Having in consideration that participants were coming from more that 20 different towns from BiH, training program provided time and space, in free times, for participants to meet and get to knew each other better so that, during working hours, participants were focus on training agenda.

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Place: Brčko, Hotel "Posavina"

Date: 08 - 10.09.2009.

Introduction:
During those three days of training participants were teach about basics of training skills and were provided with needed knowledge and gain some practical experience in providing trainings by taking active role as trainer during training duration.
Most of the work was implemented in small groups and interaction during training with practical tasks and group work was assuring group dynamic needed for personal development and raising self esteem at individual participants.
Having in consideration that participants were coming from more that 20 different towns from BiH, training program provided time and space, in free times, for participants to meet and get to knew each other better so that, during working hours, participants were focus on training agenda.
Participants also showed great interest in topic and motivation to participate sessions was on high level and there were no any critical moments during training.
Great support to training implementation was given by three people from HCA Tuzla office were present whole time of duration of training, supporting trainers and participants with all needed logistics for training.

Achieving the aims of training:
The following aims were set before training:
. Youth acquiring the skills for further pear to peer education,
. Giving possibility to young people of different background (religion and nationality) to understand needs and advantages of joint work in democratic struggle for improvement of life for young people
. Promotion of values of tolerance
. Awareness building about the needs of young people in local communities of the target regions
. Educate youth in democratic instruments for local development
According the evaluation from participants, and trainer evaluation, most of the aims were successfully achieved promising that some of the participants will further move on the process and using experiences from this training start initiatives in their own local community and apply for some future, advanced, training for trainers.
For achieving aims of the training in such high level it is to thanks to the fact that most of the participants had realistic expectations from training and that most of them are active in local NGOs for some time.

Participants:
It was planed that 30 youth participants, 15 form each region, will participate at training but for some objective reasons some participants couldn't join and needed to cancel at last day so total number of participants were 24 participants but all towns cowered by project were represented:
Podrinje region - (Srebrenica, Bratunac, Vlasenica, Sekovići, Zvornik, Milici, Sapna, Zivinice, Bijeljina, Kalesija, Ugljevik, Lopare, Teocak, etc)
North Bosnia region - (Teslic, Brod, Derventa, Doboj, Tesanj, Maglaj, Modrica, Gradacac, Odzak, Brcko, Samac, Orasje, Gracanica, Petrovo etc.)

Trainers:
Both international and local trainers followed the agreed agenda and manage to fulfill all the requirements from program and respond to participants expectations. Trainers as well as whole training methodologies, accommodation, materials used and importance of topic was marked with average mark 4,7 (5 was the highest), based on evaluation questionnaires filled by participants.

Expected results:
Following results were expected from training:
1. to have new group of trainers capable of transferring knowledge to their own local communities and pears
2. newly "produced" trainers will organize similar trainings in their local communities
3. participants will form informal knowledge network and use network as base for further learning and development
4. participants will overcome prejudices regarding people from different ethnic background and start to cooperate amongst each other
5. young people from target areas will increase their participation and visibility in local community and work on promotion of European values

Because some of the expected results are depending on longer term process (3 and 5) we can't talk now about all of the results but for some of them we are quite sure that happened in following results:
1. group of 24 young leaders participated and gain knowledge to transfer that knowledge to their pears
2. 24 new trainers received certificate so they are now ready to implement programs, some possible activities participants have developed on training, and hopefully with support from HCA Tuzla, those activities will be implemented by the end of the year.
5. most visible result was that participants were willing and actively worked with all other participants regardless their ethnicity, at least during training but we believe that this situation will last when participants return home as well

Overall evaluation of training, based on evaluation questionnaires from participants is following:
a) weak -
b) enough -
c) average -
d) good - 21,7%
e) exelent - 78, 3%

Recommendations:
In order to assure that all results are going to be achieved in most significant level it is needed that some follow up actions are implemented:
- give support to certain number of projects of participants and media promotion of project in order to strengthen "newly produced trainers" and increase awareness of local society of their existence
- organize more advanced training for trainer for ones that showed greater interest and shown that have capacities and wiliness to advance and become trainers
- support to development of informal network of participants using mailing list, Facebook or other way of modern communication
- implement evaluation of participants follow up activities in order to measure their involvement in local community and work on promotion of European values

Trainers:
Jasmin Jašarević
Miralem Tursinović
Emir Sejranić