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  Advanced Fellowship Programme 2001
 

 

It is an enormous challenge to manage a viable non-profit organisation in a country experiencing a process of transition. In present times, when many CEE countries are preparing for accession to the European Union, the viability of such organisations also depends on the economic and social changes arising within society.

Therefore, a basic understanding of external and internal components are crucially important in order to achieve a financially sustainable organisation; one that is able to provide proper services and communicate effectively to community members and local and national authorities.

Any organisation follows a life cycle similar to a human organism: birth, growth, development, teen turbulence, and latter stages of growth and development. If leadership fails to intervene properly, an organisation can fail to function properly and begin to die.

The training programme examines the internal and external components of a viable organisation, especially in the context of EU accession. Dealing with different life stages of the organisation provides an opportunity for Advanced Fellows to map out management areas as possible interventions and tools to help the organisation.

The proposed agenda of the training programme is as follows:

  • External and internal factor
  • Organisational frameworks: what does a coherent organisation look like?
  • Organisational life cycles;
  • Types of changes;
  • Management-change theory and practice; and
  • Non-profit management and leadership as a tool-kit for making organisations effective and viable.

As part of the external factors influencingan organisation, the Fellowship will provide participants with information related to EU accession through:

  • meetings with EC officials;
  • introduction to the EU website;
  • obtaining information about available EU funding;
  • presenting ongoing REC projects related to EU accession;
  • meetings with national governments representatives or NGOs who can describe their experiences regarding the accession process.

By the end of the training course, Advanced Fellows will have a deeper understanding of a non-profit organisation as a living organism, and have the skills and knowledge to promote organisation effectiveness, as well as to carry out organisational development projects as change facilitators in an enlarged European Union.

The fellows eligible to apply must come from the following countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.

For more information contact:

Adriana Craciun 
Project Manager 
Capacity Building Programme
The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe
Ady Endre ut 9-11 
2000 Szentendre 
Hungary
Tel. (36-26) 504-000 
Fax (36-26) 311 294 
E-mail: ACraciun@rec.org

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This project was funded by Phare.

PHARE

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