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Created: Tuesday, 08 September 2015 08:47
Baytna Syria is a Danida-supported civil society hub operating in Gaziantep in Southern Turkey. Baytna Syria offers a platform for Syrian civil society organizations from Syria, a grant facility and capacity development. Baytna Syria has been established in 2013 and the review looked into the progress and capacity, assessing the need for further support before Baytna Syria can operate independently of Technical Assistance. 12 working days in August-September 2015.
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Created: Tuesday, 12 May 2015 10:54
Bente Consulting will be undertaking a rapid organizational capacity assessment of The Day After (TDA) which is a Syrain exile organization operating from Istanbul in Turkey, supporting the preparation of rule of law, transitional justice and reformprocesses in a post-Assad Syria. The capacity assessment will inolve a short visit to Istanbul and focus on strategic coherence. The assignment will take place in June-August 2015. Read more about TDA here.
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Created: Tuesday, 03 March 2015 22:11
Encouraging civil society participation in policy and budget processes, EU Reference Document elaborated in 2013 by Bente Consulting ApS has finally been published by EU in February 2015.
The purpose of the Reference Document is to provide guidance on how to promote the participation of civil society in domestic policy and budget processes. The Document focuses both on national and local level with a view to identifying entry points for EU support.
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Created: Tuesday, 30 December 2014 13:32
2014 has been an amazing year with a lot of exiting assignments carried out in collaboration with inspiring and competent people. 2014 was busy throughout – with much travel during the first half and home-based assignments during the second half. 2014 was also the year where Bente Consulting moved office – leaving the urban business center at Blågårds Plads in Copenhagen in exchange for excellent facilities in the new corporate headquarters at Agersø Island.
The year started on a cold note in Chin State in Northern Myanmar with 4 weeks field work in mountain villages, collecting data for the preparation of a Local Social Plan (LSP). This assignment was carried out with a team of national and international consultants and as part of the major task of preparing input to the Chin State 5-years development plan. The work included another visit to Chin State in March with a stakeholders’ workshop and was followed by compilation of the LSP and a draft methodology guidance note for UNICEF.
2014 also brought two visits to Tanzania – first as part of the Appraisal Team for the new Danish Country Program, and second as part of the field work for the technical review of the LO/FTF Council – the latter which also included visits to Rwanda and Morocco. A short visit to Mozambique on an institutional review of the Citizens’ Engagement Program took place in August.
Home-based work has included the design of a monitoring plan and LogFrame for the Danish Association of the Blind; the revision of a program document for the MENA Department of Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs; screening and assessment of applications for Globalt Fokus’ (Danish NGO Platform) capacity development grant committee; and an intensive assessment process of Danish framework NGOs’ reports based on Danida's newly introduced resource allocation model.
Thank you to all of you for a successful and professionally rewarding 2014!
I am confident that 2015 will bring more fruitful collaboration!
2015 looks promising and will start in Mozambique with a major assignment for the EU Delegation – a mapping study of civil society organizations, which includes two extensive periods of field work.
The illustration is provided by Fotini Tikkou. Find more about her work
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Created: Monday, 29 December 2014 20:07
The EU Delegation in Mozambique will undertake a mapping of Civil Society Organizations as part of the prepration of a Roadmap for civil society programs and the coming 11th EDF. The team consists of two international and three national consultants. Bente Topsøe-Jensen will be the team leader, responsible for the development of an appropriate methodology and compilation of a bibliography on CSOs in Mozambique, the context analysis and the presentation of operational recommendations. The assignment started on 17.12.2014 and runs untill September 2015 with an overall input of 75 working days, of which most will be spent in Mozambique during two extended field work periods. Field work will include participatory workshops at provincial level and cover all provinces in the country.
