Moldova: Access of Young Citizens to Public Information, Promovation of Local NGO Thru Blogging Process

Project Goal :Ensuring the promotion of local NGOs and youth in the community with blogs, which will establish relations of cooperation with NGOs in the country and abroad. Objectives: O1. After a year of the project representatives of 10 local NGOs will be able to compile and serve their own blog, which will establish relations of cooperation with NGOs in the country and abroad; O2.After a year of the project 100 young people from the community will have their own blog, which will establish relations of cooperation with young people in the country and abroad; O3.After a year of the proj

Topical focus:

Freedom of Expression

Country:

Moldova

What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?

Calarasi

Describe the specific population with whom you will be working.

Access of young citizens from Calarasi, Republic of Moldova to public information delivery based on the principles of parity, transparency, national cooperation and social orientation that will facilitate the sustainable citizens development and poverty reduction through development of nongovernmental sector, promovation of local NGO thru bogging process , active involvement of citizens in community life, in the decision making process along and together with public authorities.

Who else will be on your team to help implement the project?

Theoreticl Lyceum ‘‘Mihail Sadoveanu ‘‘ , c. Calarasi
http://liceusadoveanu.wordpress.com

Primaria Calarasi
http://calarasi-primaria.md

What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?

Main activities:
Activity 1
2 trainigs with 10 representatives of local NGOs
The work will be led by collaborators of the Community Center (Valeriu Gorincioi, Violeta Balic)
The beneficiaries will be representatives of 10 local NGOs, they will be involved in the development, implementation and evaluation activities as will take account of their wishes.
10 beneficiaries representatives of 10 NGOs will be involved directly in the activity
The beneficiaries will be selected by collaborators of the Community Center under their applications. Participation will be announced – local newspaper ” Calarasii” , http://ciclalarasi.wordpress.com
The activity will take place during August-November 2009. It will take 6 hours training. Will be a single activity can ret

What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?

Blogs

Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established or plan to establish that will contribute to the success of the project.

Theoreticl Lyceum ‘‘Mihail Sadoveanu ‘‘ , c. Calarasi
http://liceusadoveanu.wordpress.com

Primaria Calarasi
http://calarasi-primaria.md

How many participants do you think will be trained in your project?

10 local NGOs will be able to compile and serve their own blog, which will establish relations of cooperation with NGOs in the country and abroad
100 young people from the community will have their own blog, which will establish relations of cooperation with young people in the country and abroad;

Describe which technologies, tools, and media you will focus on when training participants.

The future economic prosperity and development of the Republic of Moldova depends on its rapid integration into an increasingly competitive regional and global economy. Due to the fact that Moldova does not possess natural resources (coal, oil, gas, etc.) – knowledge is recognized as an essential driver of development and information is seen as a valuable resource. Countries that do not embrace the information revolution and strive to build information societies that maximize the potential for applying knowledge and information in all spheres of life – education, economy, society, culture, government – are subject to the risk of being left on the margins of the global knowledge economy. Moldova has started the process of building the Information Society which is a new and much better form

Describe the facilities where you will hold the workshops.

Access of young citizens from Calarasi to public information delivery based on the principles of parity, transparency, national cooperation and social orientation that will facilitate the sustainable citizens development and poverty reduction through development of nongovernmental sector, promovation of local NGO thru bogging process , active involvement of citizens in community life, in the decision making process along and together with public authorities.

What is your current relationship with the community with whom you plan to work? What makes you the most appropriate individual or organization to implement this project?

The Community Center implemented a lot of communitarian projects as:
1. Electoral Education – 3000,00 USD ( IREX ) May 2007 ;
2. Anti-traffic Education – 8000, 00 USD ( IREX ) Aug. 2007;
3. The renovation of the school furniture – 20 000 USD (IREX) Ian.2008
4 Community Internet Center – 13000, 00 USD – SOROS Foundation Moldova, 2005-2009
It was active participant in international programs and projects. It participated in International Programs
“Comenius “– collaboration with schools from Italy, Germany, and Poland.

What specific challenges do you expect to face when planning and implementing your project?

We understand that providing funds to our organization is not only an opportunity to address important issues, but also a risk. To help minimize the risk and to reassure that the project will meet its objectives, it is important to convey the strengths of the project. One of the strength is the social passivity of young people.
Young people through blogs and the local NGOs will be able to promote themself local and international, will be able to contact new friends, new ones, new possibilities of exchange personal experience in various fields, including interests, traditions, debates.
Also it will increase interest of young people to use modern information technologies, which will ensure social efficiency at local and global in the future.
Our experience of collaboration with NGOs

How will you measure and evaluate the project’s impact, specifically: your primary participants, the wider regional community, or the global digital community?

The indicators used for monitoring of the project will be:
The number and quality of applications submitted, blogs will be stored in the Internet and they can be evaluated abroad too.
The number and quality of blogs created,
Impressions of participants in seminars in the initial and final questionnaires to be completed after each training.
Data collection and processing will be done by the monitoring group.

If your project were to be selected as a Rising Voices grantee, what would be the general timeline of project activities in 2014?

August – December 2014

Detail a specific budget of up to $2,500 USD for operating costs.

Personnel :
Project coordonator -Will achieve the overall project management, monitoring and reports
$50,00 mounth x 5 mounths = $ 250,00
Blog expert ( trainer ) 12 trainings x $30,00 =$390,00
accontant -Will make accounting work – $ 50,00 mounth x 5 mounths = $ 250,00
Equipment :
A computer digital projector will be used with maximum efficiency in the presentation of 12 training (Blogging), videos in awarding ceremony- 1 x $ 850,00= $850,00
INTERNET for 5 mounths ( for trainings and free Internet acces ) $ 50,00 mounth x 5 mounth = $250.00

Supplies: Paper, pens, notebooks for 120 x $2,00 = $240,00 , Will be given to participants which will assist in training and public debate, to make notes on those subjects, and desimination.
Other direct costs:
Many activities will take place after the work and studies of the participants, so coffee breaks is a very important
120 x $2,25 = $ 270,00

Besides the microgrant funding, what other support can Rising Voices provide for your project to ensure its success?

Good practices.

Contact name

Gorincioi Valeriu

Organization

Community Center Training and Access to Information

Link to Existing Project

http://cicalarasi.wordpress.com

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