ensuring free and fair elections having zero political prisoners (the cases of Ilmi Umerov, the EaP CSF members Hovsep Khurshudyan and Levon Barshegyan, and Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko)
ensuring the respect of human rights, particularly in the disputed territories
mitigating security threats in EaP region and reaching the lasting peace in the South Caucasus Providing civil society participation in monitoring and implementation of reforms in higher education in EaP countries advancing visa liberalisation for Georgia and Ukraine working for the amelioration of the operating environment for the civil society, in particular revising the civil society legislation in Azerbaijan, and proper funding for the civil society of the region assessing EaP CSF effectiveness, outcomes\impact, new pro-active formats of activity many others
EaP CSF representatives channelled their position to the EU and EaP
Ministers and EU institutions at 4 EaP Ministerial meetings and at Euronest Parliamentary Assembly
EaP Ministerial Meeting
23 May Brussels, Belgium
EaP Ministerial Meeting
12 July Kyiv, Ukraine
EaP Ministerial Meeting
18 October Luxembourg
> 60 EaP CSF participants took part in 30 official Eastern Partnership
platforms, panels and other EaP meetings
3 joint conferences for National Platforms
Security Conference Security Challenges of the EUs Eastern Neighborhood - 28-29 July Tbilisi, Georgia Human Rights Conference On the frontline: human rights situation in the EaP countries 19-20 September Chisinau, Moldova
Public Participation in Higher Education Modernisation: civil society role in the
implementation of the Roadmap for higher education reform in Belarus 23-24 September, Minsk
Working Groups Meetings
Messages channelled to > 20 representatives of the EU institutions during 5 annual Working Group meetings
WG1 on 1-2 June
WG initiatives and EaP CSF campaigns
Youth Conference Youth for Rights 27-28 October Bratislava, Slovakia #Visafree Campaign for Georgia and Ukraine, 4 June, Brussels, Belgium
Re-granting Scheme as WGs Support
Second year of EaP CSF regranting
59 proposals received 18 projects funded Total amount of 321 165 EUR Results by the end of 2016:
Monitoring missions as an instrument of
the EaP CSF Mission of the EaP CSF on the civil society, media and human rights situation to Armenia on 9-15 August 2016 following the 17-31 July events in order to assess the situation of non-governmental organisations and the media in the aftermath the crisis supported by the Armenian National Platform of the EaP CSF and included leading experts in the field of human rights from Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine Produced report with a series of recommendations Advocacy meetings in Brussels
Statements, policy input and events
Statements 20 Steering Committee Statements > 30 Statements by the National Platform Policy input to: DG NEAR consultation on funding civil society Opinion on womens rights in the EaP of the EP Progress report for Georgia and Ukraine Council of the EU discussions on Crimea and Azerbaijan Many others Events > 20 events organised by EaP CSF that gathered > 700 participants in total > 250 attendees at the Annual Assembly
EaP CSF communication
More functional and better structured website
> 70 mentions in the media > 11000 followers on Facebook
The comings tasks and challenges in 2017
EaP CSF input to EaP Summit (November 2017) Finding optimal configuration of CSF work with both EaP countries with AA and countries without AA agenda Expanding role of CSOs in providing transparency and accountability of inter-governmental projects Improvement of EaP CSF performance and outcomes
Initiating new formats and solutions for sensitive topics in