The exercises and presentations presented by the trainers within the “Participatory monitoring and good governance evaluation” training.
Presentations Governance in V4 countries Petr Witz
Presentations good governence 1 Petr Witz
Presentations good governence 2 Petr Witz
Good governance training presentations Daniel Bartha
Protection of Right without Borders NGO organized a training on “How to detect breakdowns of the rule of law? Citizen’s court watch
program” on April 28-29, 2016 in Sevan.
The training was conducted by Poland’s judicial supervision foundation experts Stanislaw Burdziej and Bartosz pilitowski.
Participants from Armenia, as well as from Georgia participated in the training.
Participants represented the following organizations
Article 42 of the Constitution NGO, Campus lions club Tbilisi, NGO Women centre, Ijevan CYC, Women’s Community Council NGO, Youth movement Davittiunni at Georgian Patriarchate,WRCA women resurs center, Helsinki committee of Armenia, Spitak Helsinki Group Human Rights NGO, World Vision Armenia, Rights information center NGO,
The trainers shared Poland’s best experience on civic oversight over courts, as well as the court oversight methodology elaborated by them.
The experts highlighted, that unlike the trail monitoring which aims at implementing a court’s case in other court from the beginning of the case to its termination, the judicial monitoring is a larger concept and aims not to track the termination of a concrete court’s case, but the court’s functioning in general.
According to the experts, one of the aims of the foundation is to conduct a monitoring with citizens, during which individuals, in accordance with their language ability, obtain sufficient information on right components, court structures of fair trial.
The acquired knowledge will enable the training participants to ensure the accountability of judicial system.
The judicial monitoring is aimed to verify the main criteria for the maintenance of the right to fair trail, particularly right to access the court, equality before the court, conducting fair and transparent/public judicial hearings by the impartial court within the deadlines set by the law. The latter enables to verify the compliance of building conditions with the needs of society all members, as well as court facilities, office and other departments’ work.
“How to detect rule of law gaps” handbook (in Armenian, English, Georgian languages) elaborated by the experts was presented to the training participants. (https://v4.prwb.am/?page_id=128&lang=en_US, https://v4.prwb.am/?page_id=128&lang=hy)
During the training, the training participants were involved in practical team works by presenting the court structures, number of court cases, court’s overload of their own countries, as well as the best practice of judicial monitoring so far implemented. Base on SWOT methodology used in the handbook, the teams also assessed their strong and weak points taking into consideration the country characteristics.
The code of conducts, sampling method, monitoring and their experiments tools, data presentation and management, online data submission, system tailored, final report elaboration, data submission and analysis of experts were presented to the training participants.
Within the period of June 1 to August 31, the training representatives from Armenia and Georgia will be engaged in judicial monitoring procedures conducting in their own countries, the outcomes of which will be presented by the reports elaborated in Armenian and Georgian, the long term aim of which is to support the implementation of the positive changes in Armenian and Georgian justice system.
The training was conducted within the “Building evidence-based advocacy for the rule of law and good governance in EaP countries” project in partnership with Visegard international foundation.
Since 1 September 2015 the local NGO “Protection of Rights without borders” is implementing the project “Building evidence-based advocacy for the rule of law and good governance” with the support of Visegrad Fund.
Within the project two-day training will be held in Sevan on the topic “Citizen Court Watch: Monitoring of rule of law” on 28-29 April. Experts from Poland will present the experience of Poland in regards to citizens’ court watch monitoring.
Participants both from Armenia and Georgia will take participation in the training.
After the training courses the participants will take participation in court monitoring. The results of the monitoring will serve for a report drafting in Armenian and Georgian.
ANNOUNCEMENT
“PROTECTION OF RIGHTS WITHOUT BORDERS” NGO calls for applications to participate in the following trainings to be held in April-May 2016.
The Application is open for the civil society representatives from the Republic of Armenia and from the Republic of Georgia.
Trainings
During the trainings the established experience in the area of rule of law, especially Citizen Court Monitoring from Poland, and other good governance programs from EU/OECD region, including the CONCORD model for evidence based advocacy will be presented to the participants.
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Who can participate in trainings |
The representatives of civil society organizations from the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Georgia, as well as activists.
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| The same applicant | Can participate only in one selected training |
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The opening of the applications is
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12 March, 2016
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| The deadline for the applications is |
10 April, 2016 |
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After the training |
From 1 June until 31 August the training participants will be engaged in the work of the organization in the respective area of the trainings and after the work must prepare the report for the relevant areas. |
For each training 25 participants will be selected from the Republic of Armenia and from the Republic of Georgia.
The organization will cover the trancportation costs and accommodation.
The applications are available:
The trainings are organized within the project “Building evidence based advocacy for the rule of law and good governance in EaP” with the financial support of the VISEGRAD FUND and in cooperation with partners from Visegrad 4 countries.
