Interactive trainings for the leaders of ethnic NGOs, police and authorities representatives from different RF regions

In 2019 there were chosen the regions where exist the good practice of cooperation between ethnic NGOs, Police and authorities i.e. Yaroslavl, Samara and Yekaterinburg. In that cities there were implemented three-day interactive trainings. At every event there took part the representatives of ethnic NGOs from 10-15 RF regions. The first day of the activity was devoted to introduction of the participants and best practices experience interexchange. The second day – there were meetings and discussion with the authorities and police representative of the city where the activity took place. The third day - the activity results discussion among the ethnic NGOs reps. It is important to highlight that in the above – mentioned cities the authorities provided great support in implementation of the activities. In particular in Yaroslavl the meeting with the authorities and Police reps. took place in the city hall. In Yekaterinburg the same meeting took place in the Ministry of Education; in Samara all there days we worked in the House of Friendship – state institution. At the end of the project year there took place a final conference in Moscow with participants of more than 60 people. The conference was attended by the employees of the Attorney General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Moscow government. In 2019 there also took place regional seminars in 15 RF regions. This project showed that interregional activities are much more effective and successful than regional ones, so in 2020 we implemented 7 inter-regional trainings in Kaliningrad, Yaroslavl, Izhevsk, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan, Sochi and Vladimir. The plan of the training was the same as during the previous years. In 2020 we paid a particular accent on modern digital methods for communication to improve the opportunities for the dialogue with police and authorities. For the activities in Sochi and Izhevsk there were also invited youth activists of ethnic NGOs. At every project activity there was a special session aimed at evaluation during which the participants evaluated the up-to-date and relevance of the gained information and experience. At the end of 2020 there was implemented an external independent project monitoring. The project was realized under the volunteer support of the CIIC partners across Russia. The main support was provide by Institute for Foreign Relations.