Activities
The variety of essential and unique services provided by ICVA is aimed at the benefit of national and international NGO community throughout Former Yugoslavia: coordination, information and orientation, national NGO capacity building, key NGO support services, and advocacy. These efforts have so far included such activities as:
· creating and supporting mechanisms for information sharing and joint policy formulation among NGOs, such as the NGO Council in Sarajevo and Belgrade;
· providing assistance and specialised skills training to national NGOs in order to enhance their individual and collective abilities;
· providing financial management training for staff in international NGOs to enhance their individual financial reporting and accounting skills
· providing advocacy and human rights training to local NGOs to raise NGO awareness of advocacy and human rights
· work on promoting the creation of appropriate NGO legislation and governmental regulations which will support, rather than impede, the full development of a vibrant NGO sector in FRY;
· facilitating a coherent interface for NGOs with major institutions such as UNHCR and other UN agencies, host government authorities, and other relevant institutions and organisations;
· strengthening links with ECRE (European Council of Refugees and Exiles) network, particularly those ECRE members in other parts of Central and Eastern Europe, building upon their experience of working with refugees in countries undergoing transition
· maintaining and producing a comprehensive listing of humanitarian organizations active in FR Yugoslavia.
International Council of Voluntary Agencies
Vuka Karadzica 7a, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Phone: (+ 381 11) 635 662, 180 567, 180 604
Faks: (+ 381 11) 180 644
E-mail: icva-bgd@eunet.yu
icvainfo@yubc.net, icvaprog@yubc.net
