Institute for Regional and International Studies

Program areas

Completed projects

Civic Policies and Democratic Political Process

Sharing Policy Experience: Advocacy Training for NGO Activists,Communal and Business Leaders

On October 25, 2005 IRIS launched a new advocacy project Sharing Policy Experience: Advocacy Training for NGO Activists, Communal and Business Leaders supported by Balkan Trust for Democracy.
IRIS advocacy program envisages facilitating the process of forming active groups at local governmental level that will involve the representatives of business communities, civic activists and decision makers in community development planning. The project initiated joint activities between similar municipalities in Macedonia and BiH that were focused on effective community development through facilitation of valuable and viable public-private partnerships.
For the completion of this project IRIS team worked closely with local partners from Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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The Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) is an independent, non-government think tank. IRIS was established on June 11, 1997 by leading Bulgarian public and political figures, NGO leaders and prominent Bulgarian scholars in international relations, Balkan studies, history, social and political science, anthropology and economics.

The Institute for Regional and International Studies initiates, develops and implements civic strategies for democratic politics on national, regional and international level. The Institute promotes the values of democracy, civil society, freedom and respect of law, assists the process of Bulgarian integration in NATO and the EU and provides public policy analyses on current domestic and international issues. IRIS represents a strategic combination of advocacy-oriented and education-oriented think tank.