Enhanced Transparency Initiative and Ensuring Public Participation in Municipality Decision-making process

By September 24, 2007, the action plan and training materials had been arranged and all the organizational issues of the training series that were supposed to be held in Northeast, Northwest and Southeast to be resolved. Likewise, all the necessary contact had been established with CHF regional offices.

One day in advance of each training in each region, orientation sessions were provided by ERC experts and trainers in association with the CHF Deputy Director for the regional office staff and responsibilities were assigned.

During trainings, attendees were introduced to the project goals, activities, and implementation stages and made familiar with the successful cases under the same previous projects.

So as to increase the effectiveness, the training participants were split into two groups and each was trained separately for two days. The training program topics were interactively delivered and practical issues raised and discussed with the following questions being relevantly answered and interpreted in accordance with the legislation and workgroups were set up to discuss practical issues.

The handouts were disseminated to the participants to sustain the follow-up effect of the training, and electronic copies were provided to CHF regional branches and contacts of relevant experts and trainers were given to the trainees. To enhance the effectiveness of the held presentations, and find out the quality of presentation contents and professionalism of trainers, evaluation sheets were distributed to participants at the end of each training. (Annex 2)

On September 18, 2007 meetings and follow-up discussions of ERC Project experts and trainers took place with the CHF regional office members.