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Partners
Cyprus Intercultural Training Initiative (CITI)
Peace Centre
Institute for 21st Century Agoras
Cyprus EU Association



Steering Committee
Derya Beyatli (Cyprus EU Association)
Mustafa Damdelen (Cyprus EU Association)
Hasip Erel (Project manager) (Cyprus EU Association)
Didem Erel (Cyprus EU Association)
Ilke Dagli (Project coordinator) (Cyprus EU Association)
Ali Erel (Cyprus EU Association)
Marios Michaelides (CITI)
Yiannis Laouris (CITI & CNTI)
Aleco Christakis (21st Cebtury Agoras)
Tatjana Taraszow (Assistant Project Coordinator) (CITI & CNTI)

The Civil Society Dialogue Project

The project, which was launched in December 2006, has 3 Phases:


Time Frame

December 2006 Phase I: Peace Revival Process

- March 2007 Phase I includes 3 steps in total.

October 2006 Step I: Factor Generation for the Triggering Question

 

- December 2006 Participants contribute via internet, using a software called webscope and generate ideas to the triggering question which are to be categorized under several clusters. The clusters, will then be discussed and evaluated.


November 2006 Step II: Structuring of the Factors

- December 2006 Discussions on the 20 clusters and voting for prioritization. Evaluation and structuring of the voting results and identification of the root cause.


March 2007 Step III: Structured Workshop

Organisation of a 2-day residential workshop in order to complete Phase I and reach a consensus on future steps. The workshop will use the same methodology as in Step I. A triggering question will be asked to 20 participants. Clustering, prioritization and structuring will then take place after factor generation. There will be two facilitators and two presentations about the overall aims of the project and Steps I & II. Participants will contribute to idea generation and discussions.


Phase I will be completed at the end of Step III.

March 2007 Identification and training of facilitators by 21st Century Agoras with
- April 2007 the help of Alecos Christakis.


May 2007 Phase II: Civil Society Platform
- February 2008 Phase II includes 4 steps in total.

February 2007 Step I: Exchange of Best Practices
- May 2008

May 2007 Step II: Co-Laboratories

- February 2008 Organisation of least 10 face-to-face workshops (co-laboratories) where after the current situation is defined as in Phase I, points of intervention and necessary steps will be devised.


September 2007 Step III: Designing an Action Plan

- November 2007 Identified opportunities and threats, in Step I, will be turned into action items by each co-laboratory using Interactive Management Method.


November 2007 Step IV: Designing and Undertaking Projects

– February 2008 Participants of the co-laboratories and their facilitators will be responsible of implementing the individual action plans.




February 2008 Phase III: Citizens Charter and Completion of the Project

- October 2008 Phase III will include 4 steps in total


February 2008 Step I: Convention

- June 2008 Step one will organise a one day convention event with international participation where the workshop results will be shared and opened to discussion. The website of Dialogue will also be launched.


June 2008 Step II: Citizens Charter

-October 2008 Experts will put together all things that has been concluded in the Convention and draw the Citizens’ Charter for Cyprus.


July 2008 Step III: UNDP Report


October 2008 Step IV: Project Completion