PMVRO (The
Slovak NDGO Platform) is an interest group of legal entities, an umbrella
organization of 31 non-governmental organizations in Slovakia (24 regular
members and 7 observers) primarily active in the area of international
development cooperation, humanitarian assistance and global education. The NGDO
Platform’s role is to represent the common interests of its member
organizations both at home and abroad, influence policy making in the area of
development cooperation and raise public awareness about issues related to
development assistance. The members of the Platform are indispensable actors of
the Slovak Official Development Assistance.
The NGDO
Platform began to emerge in 1998. In 2003, it was established as an interest
group of 15 legal entities and was officially registered at the Regional Office
in Bratislava. In May 2010, the NGDO Platform and the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of the Slovak Republic signed a Memorandum of Understanding in which
the NGDO Platform was granted a status of an official partner of the MFA
for review and preparation of key documents related to development policies and
development cooperation.
The NGDO
Platform is a partner of the project Media4Development funded by European
Union. The project coordinator Dagmar Mekinova and her colleagues are looking
forward to the three year cooperation with organizations from Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania, Czech Republic, Finland and GB/Ireland. We believe that our
participation in the project will lead to increased interest of people living
in Slovakia, policy makers in global issues and that the journalists will be
more determined to cover them.
In 2015 PMVRO plans the following
Media4Development activities/events:
Monthly:
- raising awareness of the Slovak
public about the work of the Slovak NDGOs in the field of development
cooperation by writing about their development projects related to the EYD2015
monthly themes and posting them on Facebook. As the January them was “Europe in
the World”, the map showing the places in the world where Slovak NDGOs, members
of PMVRO, are active in the field of development cooperation and humanitarian
aid was developed and posted on Facebook.
- media monitoring on the coverage of
development issues
March: participation
of a Slovak documentarist in the training in Tallinn lead by ERR who will receive
a grant for a study trip and production of a documentary.
April: participation
of two experienced journalists in the training in Helsinki led by VIKES who
will take part in a joint study trip or receive a grant to visit development
projects of Slovak NDGOs himself/herself.
June:
- participation of 5 policy makers in
the round table in Riga organized by Green Liberty
- development of the bulletin
“Rozvojova spolupraca” (Development Cooperation)
June - September: organizing a photo/news story competition “Decent Life for All”, the
winners will be awarded by grants for study trips to development countries.
October: organizing
the event “Development Day” on the occasion of the International Day for the
Eradication of Poverty with the aim to promote work of Slovak NDGOs and
stimulate public interest in global issues. The winning photos/news stories of
the photo/news story competition will be exhibited there and the winners
officially announced.
November-December : travelling exhibition from photo/story
competition (at least 3 towns in
Slovakia)
December:
-
development of the bulletin “Rozvojova spolupraca” (Development
Cooperation)
- preparation of the January 2016 opinion
pools
Except all listed above, we will
organize informal media briefs and publish press releases.
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