Summing up the results of the Second Organizational Development Fair
09.11.2013 |Society| EuroBelarus Information Service,
On November 1 Second Organizational NGO Development Fair “On the way of development” took place in Minsk – with more participants and more opportunities.
- One of the indicators, which demonstrated interest to the Organizational Development Fair, was the number of participants, which approached 250 participants, including organizational development advisors and representatives of non-commercial organizations and initiatives from all regions of Belarus, -orgconsulting.by notes.
Organizational Development Fair introduced its participants to the practices and innovation 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.
In the first panel discussion at the Fair organizational development programs for Belarusan NGOs were presented.
The recordings of the programs and workshops will be soon available at orgconsulting.by - an online platform designed for non-commercial organizations in Belarus.
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