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Promoting the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities
Implementing Partners: Counterpart International
Funding Period: March 2007 - April 2009
Funding Amount: $314,000
Counterpart International's program in Kazakhstan comprises four core programmatic components:
- Organizational development training and mentoring for DPOs, based on Counterpart’s newly created pre-certification
methodology
- Advanced advocacy training and technical assistance to DPOs
- Networking and public hearings that include regional and international DPO and government representatives
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- Partnership, advocacy campaign, and social enterprise grants
Counterpart’s implementing partner for this program will be the nationwide Civil Society Support
Center Network Association (ARGO) in Kazakhstan. Counterpart will also use its partnership grant program to
tap into the institutional capabilities of a variety of DPOs from the United States,
Europe, and the Soviet Union.
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