The Community Resilience Forum will be held on 20 – 21 October 2021, in Belgrade, Serbia, in the form of physical event in line with the required COVID-19 epidemiological measures in the country. Limited Forum sessions will be available on-line. The exact location and link to the on-line sessions will be provided prior the event.
The Forum will be organised on a regional level, to facilitate learning, exchange and discussion among CSOs so they can think together of resilient modes of activism (particularly in challenging circumstances).
The specific objectives of the event are:
- To introduce CSOs from WBT with new approaches and good practice models to activism and community mobilisation;
- To support exchange of CSOs practices and skills in citizens’ activism, participation in decision making and community mobilisation;
- To raise the issue of constituency building and discuss strategies to promote and support activism and community mobilisation in the WBT;
- To increase ability of CSOs to respond to basic freedom violation.
This regional Forum will be implemented in the form of a two-day event involving around 60 participants representing CSOs and CSO networks from WBT region. The Forum will primarily target grassroots, but also other CSOs such as community foundations, CSOs providing grants and capacity building to grassroots, and other interested CSOs including networks, women’s CSOs and EU-funded CSOs.
The event will consist of different types of main and parallel sessions, each focusing on a specific issue. By applying this approach, the high level of participation of the large group of participants will be ensured. Official language of the event is English.
Please, read the full text of the Open Call here.
If you are interested to learn more about content of key topics and Forum sessions, please review the draft Agenda document here.
APPLICATION FORM FOR PARTICIPANTS
APPLICATION FORM FOR CONTRIBUTORS
Deadlines and Submission
All contributions should be submitted until Wednesday, 6 October 2021, 17:00 hrs CET.