PASOS members work to strengthen the policymaking environment through making policy recommendations and engaging with other stakeholders with a view to seeking continuous improvement of public policy in a range of areas. This section highlights public policy initiatives and contributions to the wider debate on public policy concepts.
Policy Paper 4/2008, Association for International Affairs (AMO), Czech Republic
(in English and in Czech)
About 81 percent of respondents interviewed pointed to ineffective use of oil revenues and lack of transparency concerning revenues
An analytical paper from the Institute for Public Policy, Romania, after a six months' project monitoring ca 45 localities in Romania
A policy brief from the International Centre for Human Development in Armenia.
(In English and Armenian)
PASOS Policy Brief No. 2, 2008
by Jacek Kucharczyk, Research Director, Institute of Public Affairs, Poland, and Jeff Lovitt, Executive Director, Policy Association for an Open Society (PASOS)
A CASE Network E-Brief by Mateusz Walewski, June 2008
AMO Research Paper 2/2008
by Michal Roškanin
by Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse
Analyses & Opinion, No. 3, April/May 2008, Institute of Public Affairs, Poland
Analizy i Opinie, Nr 84, kwiecień/maj 2008, Instytut Spraw Publicznych, Polska
(in English and Polish)
A Report by PASOS (Policy Association for an Open Society) for the European Parliament Committee on Development
Authors: Jeff Lovitt and Eva Rybková, PASOS Secretariat, together with eight PASOS members and two other research partners
Policy Brief No.3, Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development
(in English and in Georgian)
A research study by the Economic Research Center, Azerbaijan
A policy brief of the International Centre for Human Development in Armenia.
(In English and Armenian)
A policy brief from the International Center for Human Development, Armenia
Policy Paper No. 15, Center for Research and Policy Making, Macedonia
After 1989 social policy, has, to a great extent, played the role of a “safety valve” for economic reforms in Poland, focusing on protective activities. After more than a decade of transformation the country has found itself at a turning point. It is no longer possible to apply traditional social solutions. It is now necessary to re-focus on programmes that will require support beneficiaries to be more active.
Research report of the Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw
Policy Paper 4/2008, Association for International Affairs (AMO), Czech Republic
(in English and in Czech)
Discussion Paper No.2, January-July 2008
by Dumitru Minzarari
(in English and in Romanian)
by Agnieszka K. Cianciara
Analyses & Opinions, No. 4, June 2008, Institute of Public Affairs, Poland
A policy brief from the International Centre for Human Development.
(In English and Armenian)
A policy brief of the International Centre for Human Development in Armenia
(In English and Armenian)
Integracja uchodzców w Polsce - Rekomendacje i dobre praktyki
a policy paper of the Institute of Public Affairs, Poland
(only in Polish)
A policy brief by the International Center for Human Development (ICHD), Armenia
A policy brief by the International Center for Human Development (ICHD), Armenia
A policy brief of the International Center for Human Development, Armenia
by Lena Kolarska-Bobinska and Magdalena Mughrabi
Based on more than 30 interviews with government officials, experts, journalists and development workers in Poland, Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Jordan, this report is a study of Poland’s policy, as a new EU member state (2004-2008), towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It looks at the role Poland plays or could potentially play in the Middle East Peace Process, while investigating whether a need exists for a greater involvement of new EU member states in the context of the re-launch of negotiations with the Annapolis conference. Additionally, it examines Palestinian and Israeli perceptions of Poland in respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A survey conducted by Institute for Public Policy, Bucharest, Romania
The topic of think tanks’ self-sustainability is less a theoretical seminars’ issue than a serious, concerning matter of development for many NGOs in this region. The decrease of several American foundations' support and even its withdrawal in some regions, especially in recent EU member states (2004/2007 waves), raised a number of questions about the future developments of think-tanks in general. The more critical an NGO's approach to the Government has been, the more difficult it has become for it to engage partnership with governmentally managed resources. Still, the future of think-tanks is an important element for democracy's development from now on, and therefore the study on how overhead costs are raised and on the use of overheads for strengthening the internal capacity of the organisation, proves as a useful indicator for the sector’s sustainability in the new political and economic environment.