Interregional seminar "Facilitating Social Partnership in North Caucasus"

The fourth and the last seminar in the series of interregional seminars under the common title "Facilitating Social Partnership in North Caucasus" took place at the Djeyrakh sanatorium in the Republic of Ingushetia on December 18-20, 2003. The seminar was organized by the Saint Petersburg Center "Strategy" and the Moscow Helsinki Group with the participation of the Ingush President's staff.

The series is aimed at grounding leaders of North Caucasian NGOs in the foundations of NGO management, in methods and technologies of social partnership and cooperation with representatives of local and regional authorities. The second aim of the project is to determine scope for application of the experience in social partnership accumulated in the other regions of Russia, with national and cultural features of the North Caucasian republics being taken into consideration.

Earlier two seminars in Pyatigorsk (November 2002 and April 2003) and one seminar in Makhachkala (May 2003) were arranged within the series. Representative of regional and local executive authorities, commissioners for human rights, NGO leaders, scientists and teachers from Ingushetia, North Osetia - Alania, Chechnya, Stavropol Territory, Moscow and Saint Petersburg were invited to take part in the seminar in Djeyrakh. Altogether 30 people participated in the it.

Presentations on the themes of social partnership and NGO management, round table discussions, as well as the gaming "Preparation to a Civil Forum in a Mountainous Republic" were parts of the seminar.