Call for Application – Regional Social Academy “Agile Organisational and Project Management”

Call for Application – Regional Social Academy “Agile Organisational and Project Management”

After two successful Regional Social Academy of IRIS Network, held in Belgrade and Tirana we are announcing the Call for participants of the Regional Social Academy, which will be held online from 26th to 28th October 2020.

The Academy offers participants further support in organizational development – changing the paradigm: moving from a traditional organization working as a “machine” to the new organisation working as “organism”. This year Academy will focus on new knowledge and skills of CSOs management and senior staff in agile organizational and project management – impact strategy design and management, agile project management, budgeting, agile leadership, and team management, leading the agile organisation, impact measurement, and management methodologies and practices.

Participants will attend 3-day tailor-made training consisted of online lectures and workshops. The Academy program will enable further improvements and optimization to the needs, interests, and constraints of the target groups and their institutional and organizational environments.

All information and application procedure you can find here.

The deadline for the application is 14th October 2020 at 17 p.m.

The final participant list will be announced on the IRIS Network website (www.iris-see.eu) no later than on 16th October.

Successful participants will obtain certificates, and enter Academy Alumni. Upon the training, each of the participants will have the opportunity to participate in a Follow-up check-point session which will be held on the 9th of November 2020, online.

Regional Social Academy is part of the regular IRIS program activities, organized annually.

Photos and impressions from First Regional Social Academy you can see here.

Photos and impressions from Second Regional Social Academy you can see here.

For additional questions contact iris@iris-see.eu.

IRIS Network survey for CSO’s: Social services – Covid19 pandemic

IRIS Network considers important to assess the situation, challenges and difficulties its members as well as others CSO’s that are facing in the provision of social services and their everyday work as a result of the current COVID 19 pandemic.

We have responsibility towards its members as well as to other parties to have a detailed overview of their current situation and to provide this information to the EC, as the donor. This will be conducted through a questionnaire CSO’s can fill in on link below.

Therefore, the objective of the questionnaire is to assess the current situation and consequences caused by COVID 19 pandemic on the provision of social services to beneficiaries provided by IRIS Network members in their local communities. The results of the questionnaire will be used for developing a Report on Social Services in South East Europe under the COVID 19 pandemic and will include the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and North Macedonia. The Report will be used to assess the actual challenges that civil society organizations providers of social services face in working with beneficiaries and to map the assistance models.

The Report will also be used as an instrument in advocating for policies and measures of national/regional/ EU Institutions which focus on service providers during and after the crises.

Please provide detailed information in the questionnaire and include all information you consider relevant. Also, please include your projections and the assessment of the consequence caused by the crises that will affect your services and the whole social protection system.

For all interested CSO’s providing social services – you can fill in the questioner on the link below .

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYtxkZHFt2ZdZ89_F-IVVyIDYzH3bxToH4T5ybdcNrnLgQoA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Please feel free to contact us through National Coordinators and / or Network Secretariat.

Stay well and healthy.

Newsletter No 2 – Insights and Recommendations from IRIS Progress Project

Newsletter No 2

Insights and Recommendations from IRIS Progress Project

Achievements and Results in 2024

Iris Progress – Newsletter No.2

 

Open Now – Call for Applications – Regional Social Academy 2025 Deadline April 11, 2025

Call for Applications – Regional Social Academy

“Advancing Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights in the Western Balkans”

 IRIS Network is announcing a Call for Applicants for the Regional Social Academy “Advancing Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights in the Western Balkans”, which will take place in Bečići, Montenegro, from May 12 to 15, 2025.

The Academy offers participants a unique opportunity to benefit from a diversified training package, integrating a Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) with gender equality strategies, service provision, and mechanisms for the protection and empowerment of women. Participants will attend a four-day, tailor-made training featuring diverse learning methodologies, including lectures, workshops, discussions, and field visits.

All information and application procedures can be found here: Academy Call for Participants Montenegro 12_15 May

The deadline for applications is April 11, 2025, at 17:00 CET.

All applicants will receive information on their acceptance to the Academy no later than five working days after the application deadline.

Successful participants will receive certificates and become part of the Academy Alumni Network.

The Regional Social Academy is part of the regular IRIS program activities, organized annually.

For additional questions, contact iris@iris-see.eu.

National meeting of IRIS Network in Serbia

IRIS network in Serbia organized national meeting on 20th December 2024. in the premises of IDC.

During meeting, Regional benchmark study: Social progress and EU Accession process in the Western Balkan countries was presented with emphasis on situation in Serbia. This report provides a benchmark study of the social progress in six countries – Albania, Bosna and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia, focusing on three key areas: education, economic environment and social protection, and healthcare, with additional attention to human rights, social services, employment, and social dialogue and will be published on our website.

National meeting gathered members from Serbia, as well as new members that had recently joined to the network. This was the opportunity to introduce and connect new members with others in order to involve them in activities and contribute to the future cooperation.

National meeting was part of the annual activities of the IRIS Network.

Perspectives of Inclusion – Civic dialogue about work integration of persons with disabilities from the perspective of different local community stakeholders

IRIS Network organized on 10th December 2024 in Pančevo, on the human rights day, the social dialogue titled​ ” Perspectives of inclusion ” – Civic dialogue about work integration of persons with disabilities from the perspective of different local community stakeholders, with special focus on work integration of this target group, opportunities and challenges which they are facing.​

The dialogue brought together representatives of organizations members of Iris Network, civic society organizations that provide social services to persons with disabilities, as well as representatives of institutions. At the event were present representatives of the National Employment Service and Erste ​Bank, from sector​ for social banking, members of the Pančevo City Council and Administration, Association Volja za zivotom from Velika Plana, Associations Evo ruka from Belgrade, Na pola puta from​​ Pančevo and Zelena Plantaza Iva from Surduk.

Main topics for discussion covered programs of the National Employment Service ​for persons with disabilities, their position and needs, obstacles and challenges with which they encounter in everyday life, legal restrictions and other obstacles which makes their active engagement difficult, opportunities for overcoming them, obligations of institutions and support, as well as their integration and work engagement in social enterprises, as one of the models of working integration. In conclusion, through exchange of good practices, participants jointly developed recommendations which could help in the future to improve the position of persons with disabilities. In addition, all present participants express their interest to form an informal network and cooperate in order to improve position of persons with disabilities on the labor market.

The civic dialogue was organized within project Strengthening capacities and policy engagement of community service providers – IRIS Progress which is funded by the European Union, and implemented by Initiative for Development and Cooperation (IDC).