Forum Power business and civil society cooperation for the development of the Baikal region

On June 24 and 25, 2015, the Baikal Civic Forum will be held in the Baikal region, dedicated to cooperation between government, business, and civil society for regional development.

24-25 June 2015, the Baikal Civic Forum “Government, Business and Civil Society: Cooperation for the Development of the Baikal Region” will take place.
Civic activists, non-profit organizations, social entrepreneurs, representatives of business, municipal and regional authorities, members and experts of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation and the Civic Chambers of the regions of the Russian Federation, as well as journalists, are invited to participate in the Forum.
The Forum is an event held for the collective identification or resolution of any significant problems and the ways to solve them for the development of the Irkutsk Region.
The goal of the forum:
— discussion of the problems of developing civic engagement and cooperation between government, business, and society, and possible ways to solve them in the Baikal region; — training in the necessary skills for developing civic engagement and cooperation between society, government, and business; — familiarization with effective practices of civic engagement and cooperation between society, government, and business.
Forum Program
It has been developed taking into account the problems of developing civic engagement and interaction between society, government, and business identified during the preparation of the report “THE ROLE OF THE CIVIC CHAMBER OF THE IRKUTSK REGION IN THE FORMATION OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE REGION 2008-2014” and as a result of monitoring the most important areas of the state of the NGO sector, socio-economic development, and interaction between society, government, and business. Forum participants will be given the opportunity to discuss the problems of developing public engagement and interaction between society, government, and business in the interests of territorial development in the format of discussions with the participation of federal and regional experts, as well as to take part in educational programs and get acquainted with the projects of Forum participants.