“Enabling Communities through Civil Society Strengthening in Rural Mongolia” Project (ECCS)

“Enabling Communities through Civil Society Strengthening in Rural Mongolia” Project (ECCS)

Objective: Increase target groups involvement through motivating people with disabilities and rural women

Outcomes:

  1. Persons in vulnerable situations, especially persons with disabilities and rural women, capability to claim their rights improved
  2. Community support strengthened, especially with persons in vulnerable situations
  3. CSOs’, including persons with disabilities’ and rural women’s, capacity improved

Main activities:

  • Develop human right training program for the people with disabilities and women following topic under the participation, education, and health
  • Establish working group on the implementation of laws related to the rights of women and PwDs
  • Organize awareness-raising activities, increase their participation and impact positive way to society
  • Establish community mobilization groups, train them in Participatory Rural Appraisals method, motivate target group members and support them.
  • Communities will be motivated gatherings through initiative and implementing the small scale initiatives and train them method by training.
  • CSOs, including PwDs' and women's CSOs, involved in capacity building, implementing joint small-scale projects and participating in the CSO networking hub.

Cooperation partners: Governor office of Arkhangai province, Governor office of Soum Governor, Aimag Citizen Representative Meeting, MONFEMNET National Network, The Council of Organization of People with Disabilities, The Council of Local Women’s of Arkhangai Province, Other Local CSOs