PASOS is committed to supporting the professional development of independent think-tanks and in 2006, in conjunction with Eóin Young and Lisa Quinn, trainers of the
Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (LGI) of the Open Society Institute, conducted a series of trainings in Writing Effective Policy Papers to Influence Decision-Making.
Two training sessions took place in 2006.
21-22 September, Warsaw -Writing Effective Policy Papers to Influence Decision-Making (English language) for participants from independent policy centres in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Macedonia,
Poland, and Romania. The training was hosted by the PASOS member, the
Institute of Public Affairs, Poland.
The training took place as part of a ToT (Training of Trainers) exercise conducted by the LGI trainers, as a result of which the LGI training team now includes four new accredited trainers:
Lucian Ciolan, a Senior Lecturer in Educational Policy and Educational Research at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest, Romania;
Ashot Khurshudyan, Head of the Training and Education Unit at the PASOS member, the International Center for Human Development in Yerevan, Armenia;
Elena Klitsounova, Programme Director at the Center for International and Regional Policy (CIRP), St.Petersburg, Russia;
Katarina Staronova, lecturer at the Institute of Public Policy, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Two of the trainers, Ashot Khurshudyan and Elena Klitsounova, work as Russian-language trainers, and conducted the following training session:
22-23 October, Istanbul - Writing Effective Policy Papers to Influence Decision-Making (Russian language) for participants from policy centres in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Uzbekistan.