19 March 2024
On 19 March 2024, an information seminar on the Contest of Pilot Initiatives on the Sustainable Development Goals was held in Mogilev.
The seminar took place in a hybrid format. In total, more than 90 people took part, among them 75% were women. Representatives of organizations not only from Mogilev, but also from Brest, Gomel, Grodno and Minsk regions joined the seminar. The event was attended by representatives of the Mogilev regional and district executive committees, local Councils of Deputies, educational, healthcare, cultural institutions, as well as public organizations working in the field of promoting clear and simple language, supporting people with disabilities, private companies in the field of business consulting and entrepreneurship support.
At the seminar, the experience of localizing SDGs in the world and Belarus, the Regulations on the Contest, requirements for pilot initiatives on SDGs and approaches to their development were presented and discussed, and the process of submitting applications for the Competition through a specially created platform sdgidea.by was clearly demonstrated. In addition, the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Belarus on international technical assistance were discussed in detail at the event. At the end, all guests were able to ask questions and take part in an online interview. Based on its results, 27 representatives confirmed the intention of their organizations to participate in the Competition.
The seminar in Mogilev became the first in a planned series of information seminars about the Contest of Pilot Initiatives on SDGs. The event was organized by the Mogilev Regional Executive Committee together with United Nations Development Programme in Belarus (UNDP) within the framework of the international technical assistance project “Support to the Efforts of the Republic of Belarus in Nationalization and Localization of SDGs” with financial support from the Russian Federation.
The recording of the information seminar about the Contestof Pilot Initiatives on the SDGs in Mogilev is available at the link.
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