HCAV monitoring specialists participated in the training on “Advocacy and policy influencing in relation to COVID-19 in closed institutions”

July 26, 2022

EU COVID-19 Solidarity Programme
for the Eastern Partnership

Standing Together

On 22-23 July 2022, Marieta Temuryan and Sara Ghazaryan, the monitoring specialists of social and medical services of Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly-Vanadzor, together with other members of monitoring groups of psychiatric institutions and care institutions participated in the training on “Advocacy and policy influencing in relation to COVID-19 in closed institutions”, which was organized in the frame of COVID-19 Solidarity Programme 2020-2022.

During the training, the participants examined advocacy and communications tools and means localized for the Armenian environment.

The aim of the programme is to support civil society organizations to respond to immediate and longer-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the region. The programme is a part of the activities implemented by the Netherlands Helsinki Committee (in cooperation with Global Initiative on Psychiatry), jointly with People in Need and AFEW International.

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