Strengthening Roma NGOs building capacity in transparency practices
Last Updated: 28 June 2018
by Giacomo MANCA
Today 28th June, the EU Affairs Office participated in a meeting of the Ergo Network, which gathers Roma Grassroots Organisations in Europe, dealing with the need of learning how to implement good transparency and accountability towards funding authorities and civil society counterparts.
With the aim to strengthen their network’s accountability and transparency when applying for funding or reporting on budget, ERGO and its members have developed an innovative board game, which promotes good practices in governance and financial management, and works as a training.
Addressing mainly youth organisations, this tool works as a model of real life, with cards representing different scenarios and challenging tasks which an NGO faces in its daily work. Players are assigned different NGO roles, while a facilitator, with a few years of experience in Civil Society oversees the game. This innovative training tool has already successfully being tested, and has resulted in being a thought provoking participatory game, stimulating debates and discussion on organisations’ strategies and moral dilemmas.
The transparency board game, was co-funded by the Visegrad Fund and the European Commission, and is part of the Joint initiative to Empower Civil Society in the Western Balkans and Turkey.
Roma grassroots organisations are committed to increasing their transparency, working as a watchdog on their government’s choices as well as investing in their own accountability. To read more about Ergo actions, and to get in touch with their members in your countries, click (here)
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