Event Title
Civil Society Development in the EU Eastern Partnership Countries
Description
EU has gradually become proactive actor in democracy promotion in the Eastern neighborhood, while several external events (Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, Rose revolution in Georgia) played a role in this transformation.
In the lecture we discuss this EU “external democracy-promotion” via various funding programs (EU Neighborhood policy instrument, others), creation of Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum ; but also related problems such as possible loss of independence of NGOs as their priorities become externally driven. I will also bring some practical examples of my own experience, working with development cooperation projects with NGOs in EaP Countries.
About the Lecturer:
Margit Säre is a short term Cross-Border Research fellow, investigating transboundary civic environmentalism in the Salish Sea -Cascadia border region. For last fifteen years she has been involved in Estonian environmental NGO and working with transboundary water management, cross border environmental networks etc. in Estonian-Russian border area as well in various Eastern European countries.
Document Type
Event
Start Date
28-11-2018 12:00 PM
End Date
28-11-2018 1:20 PM
Location
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Resource Type
Moving image
Duration
1:10:09
Title of Series
World Issues Forum
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Democratization--Europe, Eastern; Eastern Partnership--Foreign relations; European Union countries--Foreign relations--Europe, Eastern
Subjects – Names (LCNAF)
European Neighbourhood Policy (Program); European Union; Eastern Partnership
Geographic Coverage
Europe, Eastern
Type
Moving Image
Keywords
EU, Democracy promotion, EU Neighborhood policy instrument
Rights
This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws.
Language
English
Format
video/mp4
Civil Society Development in the EU Eastern Partnership Countries
Fairhaven College Auditorium
EU has gradually become proactive actor in democracy promotion in the Eastern neighborhood, while several external events (Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, Rose revolution in Georgia) played a role in this transformation.
In the lecture we discuss this EU “external democracy-promotion” via various funding programs (EU Neighborhood policy instrument, others), creation of Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum ; but also related problems such as possible loss of independence of NGOs as their priorities become externally driven. I will also bring some practical examples of my own experience, working with development cooperation projects with NGOs in EaP Countries.
About the Lecturer:
Margit Säre is a short term Cross-Border Research fellow, investigating transboundary civic environmentalism in the Salish Sea -Cascadia border region. For last fifteen years she has been involved in Estonian environmental NGO and working with transboundary water management, cross border environmental networks etc. in Estonian-Russian border area as well in various Eastern European countries.
