CEEweb policy and proactivity - strengthening the ties within our network

Dear CEEweb Members,

We are happy to invite you to the CEEweb Field Visit program which aims to strengthen the relation between the Head Office and member organizations

Objective: The Policy Office of CEEweb for Biodiversity wishes to make stronger personal and professional contacts with its member organizations. Building on the successful experience gained in 2010, members of the Policy Office will visit CEEweb organizations in 2011 and offer them a two-day-long training free of charge. The focus of the program will be professional and methodical capacity building.

Duration: two consecutive days (from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Participants: a group of minimum 8, maximum 16 people from CEEweb member organizations, thematically related local environmental NGOs or state partners

Language: the program will be held in English. In case translation is needed, trainers should be notified in advance, but the program can be simultaneously translated.

Costs: The CEEweb Office will provide trainers and handouts, but no translation fee, food and rent are covered by the project. Local member NGOs will have to find the venue and organize participants including interpretation.

Contents of the training:

The two-day-long program is about proactive lobbying, which is the main activity of CEEweb. On the first day we deal with the CEEweb policy and the exact content of CEEweb's lobbying activities. On the second day we look at the methodology of successful lobbying: the different levels of proactivity in the NGO sphere.

Day 1: CEEweb policy

1. What is the reason for a common CEEweb policy

2. CEEweb’s mission: what is sustainable development and why is it useful in the work of environmental NGOs?

3. Why is CEEweb’s policy different from other environmental NGOs policies

4. Nature vs. economy: how one value (economic growth) overthrows the others and how this imbalance can be cured.

5. Practical aspects of CEEweb’s policy: the Hungarian climate law

Day 2: Proactivity and success-training for NGO

1. Why do we need this training? The 3 sectors theory: pros and cons of working for an environmental NG

2. The 7 skills of success (Stephen Covey’s famous model

3. The art of goal setting

4. Proactivity as the “One ring to rule them all”: how you can make your work outstandingly efficient by being proactive instead of reactive.

5. Where and how the CEEweb network can becom

The dates for when the visits would take place are quite flexible, which means that we would give you opportunity to suggest a date that is most suitable for you and your team. If you are interested, please contact the Policy Office at ceeweb@ceeweb.org or directly Veronika Kiss, networking coordinator at kiss@ceeweb.org by 16^th May the latest.

I am looking forward to hearing from you

Best wishes

Veronika