Razgrad 7200, complex Osvobozgdenie 34, PoBox 237
Razgrad 7200
Bulgaria
- Democracy and community development
At present 2 full-time employees work at the NGOs Center: Executive Director and Program Coordinator. The NGOs Center in Razgrad has expanded the interaction between the public institutions and the civil sector. The organization has developed a successful public- private partnership with the Regional and District Courts, Regional Prosecutor and the local police in Razgrad. This encouraged the team to keep up fostering the positive reform in the Judiciary at a local level and affirming the principles of transparency and accountability of the judicial system at national level. The available office (80 sq.m.), located in the center of Razgrad, which is additional advantage for the project implementation. Enough space with controlled electronic and human access will be available for the project team. The office has: meeting room; 4 PC, laptop, printer, copy machine, direct phones; direct internet access; multi media; a secretary. These available resources make us confident that we could provide quality management support and expert assistance to the financial organization. We are founder of National Court Watch Network in Bulgaria (June 2007). Since Aug 2006 the NGOs Centre is a member of the National Civic Coalition for Monitoring of EU funds in Bulgaria. Since February 2005 the organization is an active member of the Social Services Network and founder of the Association of Social Enterprises in Bulgaria. In March 2004 the Organization was a co-founder of the Community Policing Network in Bulgaria. In May 2004, the NGOs Center represented Bulgaria in the process of building the Minority Policing Regional Network in Romania. The NGOs Centre Razgrad works in close partnership with the local courts in North-East Bulgaria and closely monitors the regional implications of the National Reform in the Judiciary
The mission of the NGOs Center is to advocate for civic participation in the democratization process at local level. The organization strongly supports the overall development of a civil society in Razgrad Region.
Community Policing; A sequence of 6 one-year projects focused on developing community policing were implemented by the organization. Trainings on the National Strategy “Police Close to Society” were provided. A Police Support Group was established in Razgrad as a result of the long and successful collaboration between the NGOs Centre and the Regional police headquarters. Social inclusion and human rights: At present the NGOs Center in Razgrad implements a number of local and regional projects “Roma community consultants”, “Equal Opportunities for Job Placement at the Police for Representatives of Ethnic Minorities”, “Daily Center for Socially Disadvantaged Women”. The development of the NGOs Center as a social services provider is a priority for 2006 and 2007. The organization provides support to vulnerable groups, especially social and health-care support to women from ethnic minority groups. In 2005-2009 the organization filed over 100 cases based on the Access to Information Act before the Regional and court of Razgrad and Supreme Administrative Court, against the local authorities. In over 70 % of the cases the court pronounced the denied access to information as illegal. Apart of the abovementioned projects the NGOs Center has completed a number of other democracy-related projects. Full texts available at: http://ngo-rz.org; http://court.ngo-rz.org; http://police.ngo-rz.org.