The Changing Face(s) of Civil Society in the Eastern Partnership

Speakers

• Margot Ellis, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Europe and Eurasia, USAID
• Lawrence Meredith, Director for Neighbourhood East and Institution Building, DG NEAR, European Commission
• Rosa Balfour, Director, Carnegie Europe
• Kateryna Pishchikova, Associate Professor, eCampus University and Affiliate Professor, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
• Yury Chavusau, Lawyer, Assembly of Pro-Democratic NGOs of Belarus
• Isabella Sargsyan, Human Rights Program Director, Eurasia Partnership Foundation, Armenia
• Kateryna Zarembo, Associate Fellow, New Europe Center, Ukraine

Moderator

• Nicolas Bouchet, Fellow and Senior Editor, German Marshall Fund of the United States

The civic landscapes in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries are increasingly populated not only by typical non-governmental and civil society organization but also by more varied and non-traditional civic actors (including often overlooked traditional civic networks and organizations such as churches, kinship networks, and little organized social and grassroots movements). Meanwhile, traditional non-governmental and civil society organizations struggle to establish and maintain connections with many citizens. The topicality of these issues is reinforced by recent events in Belarus and the impact of the coronavirus across the region.

The German Marshall Fund of the United States is pleased to invite you to the presentation and discussion of two new policy papers that present in-depth analysis to understand the rapidly evolving societal dynamics shaping civic landscape in the EaP countries, which hinder or benefit democratic civil society, and to help identify strategies for local actors and external civil society support that are tailored to changing local contexts.

These papers are the result of the research project “Responding to Fast-Changing Civic Landscapes in the Eastern Partnership”, which was supported by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations and by the U.S. Agency for International Development.

If you have any questions, please contact John Alexander at [email protected].