Second Organizational Development Fair demonstrates dynamics

The Fair, which took place on November 1 in Minsk, has presented organizational development services market, gathering more than 200 participants - NGOs and advisors - from all Belarusan regions.

Organizational Development Fair introduced its participants to the practices and innovational services in the sphere of organizational development, as well as provided them with a place for discussing tendencies and challenges Belarusan civil society organizations experience.

The participants gained an opportunity to negotiate the provision of advisory services to the organizations, as well as get information and advisory service concerning their work.

Ulad Vialichka, the participant of the event and a member of an organizational development Exchange Supervisory Council, shared his impressions from the work of the Second Organizational Development Fair with the EuroBelarus Information Service.

“It has now become an annual event, which unites both the advisory organizations working with NGOs and non-governmental organizations –  clients for such kind of service. The format of the Fair, on the one hand, presupposes a presentation of the services in this sphere available in the Belarusan market. On the other hand, it is an opportunity to discuss a number of questions topical for consulting sphere in Belarus, especially those relative to nonprofit organizations, - he noted. – As this sphere in Belarus has more than a twenty-year history, which means that the challenges, level of development, ranges of services and demand have changed. The aim of the Fair is to record such changes, to discuss them and draw conclusions”.

“It is evident that the number of advisers, - more than a hundred of them - which are connected to the exchange, has grown significantly in comparison with the first Fair. On the other hand, to hold an event for the second time is always more difficult. The challenge that the second Fair faced was to make it not worse than the first event and demonstrate the dynamics in this sphere. We had to maintain the standard we reached during the first Fair”, - emphasized Ulad Vialichka.

ORGCONSULTING .BY Exchange, the organizer of the Fair, is an online platform designed for non-commercial organizations in Belarus. Its serves for the search and provision of services in the sphere of organizational development based on market mechanisms.

A number of Belarusan non-commercial organizations, which representatives form the Exchange Supervisory Council, are the initiators of the Exchange creation:

The Association of Life-Long Learning and Enlightenment

Public organization “Educational Center POST”

Public Association “Center for social innovations”/ Humanitarian Technologies Agency

Belarusian Association of Journalists

Association “Green Network”

International Consortium EuroBelarus

Republican association of wheelchair-bound disabled