Two-days training was organized in Park Inn hotel on March 14-15 on “Increasing role of media and civil society in OGP initiatives”. In total 30 participants from mass-media and CSO joined to the training.

Civil Society Platform (STP) regrets that Azerbaijan is the only OGP member country with inactivated status and calls the government to fulfil all the commitments within the shortest time possible. The government should prioritize transparency, accountability, and public participation – the ground principles of OGP initiative – in its operations, improve the quality of governance, and increase people’s access to qualitative services.

As higher energy prices buoy currencies of commodity producers, one is swimming against the tide. Even after losing more than half its value against the dollar in two devaluations last year, Azerbaijan’s manat is struggling to find a bottom. In fact, it just had its worst month since the height of the crisis in oil markets in January.

The policy paper developed by Center For Support to Economic Initiatives has been nominated as the best policy paper among submitted papers by think tanks in Azerbaijan. Renowned think-tanks from Azerbaijan were involved into the evaluation process, and the evaluation of these papers was conducted by 5 local and foreign experts. As result of the evaluation process the winner was Support for Economic Initiatives for its “Strengthening Financial Capacity of Azerbaijan’s Municipalities: improving the taxable base of physical entity property tax” policy paper.

Center For Support For Economic Initiatives held a round table

Center For Support For Economic Initiatives held a round table on the subject of the “Potable water management in rural areas: faced problems and ways of their solution” on July 17, in Barda. About 20 chairmen of the municipalities and municipality’s water companies from Barda, Tartar and Agcabadi districts participated in the meeting.

Samir Aliyev, the expert of the Center For Economic Initiatives has answered the questions of the “Mediaforum” site.

- The amendments were made to Law on Industrial and consumer garbage and Administrative Codex in the meeting which was held on June 12, in the Milli Mejlis. How do you see the implementation mechanism of this amendment?

The general meeting of the members of the NGO Alliance For Municipal Development (BINA) was held on July, 2. An organizational issue was discussed, elections of the coordinator of the Alliance for next year were held in the meeting. Azer Mehtiyev was elected as the coordinator of the Alliance for next time.