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Learn more about the project: its aims, activities, target groups, and strategies.

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The Actors of Urban Dialog is a 32-month long EuropeAid project, funded by the European Union.

The project, in particular, is designed to develop a civic education program and infrastructure for capacity building for active and motivated urban activists, young people, and civil society actors in small towns of Uzbekistan, aimed at improving the quality of life of people in small towns. It specifically aims to:

  • increase the competences (skills and tools) of active citizen in the target area of Uzbekistan small cities empowering participants to be actively engaged as an urban actor;
  • increase social engagement, education and consolidation of communities in sharing experiences;
  • increase regional networking and cooperation of active citizens and multipliers at the regional level;
  • strengthened cooperation between civic society networks and citizens.
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Partner organisation

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Region in Uzbekistan

‘‘The right to the city’’ is understood as citizens’ activity in urban public space or through the civic engagement of their community.

a partnership of:

Activities of Phase I

The educational process will be developed in a holistic way, all elements will support, interact, work together and empower each other. By the end of this phase we will produce an online platform and training course materials for the second phase.

Apr'21

Open Call for Participants

The partnership has drafter and published the call for Uzbek participants.

May'21

Partners Kick-Off Meeting

A kick-start meeting to take place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan with all partners represented.

June'21

Development of Online Platform

A digital platform to share best practices, learn from each other and describe plans, ideas and collaborate.

June'21

First Training Course in Ferghana

Seminar combines the formats of training & brain-storming for formulation of the common “hot issues” for the grass-root urban activism in the region.

July'21

Second Partner Meeting

The partner meeting for project monitoring, review of tasks and plans, to check the progress.

Aug'21

Study Tour in Germany

A tour to learn from Germany’s horizontal planning and grassroots urban activism expertise.

Sep'21-Jan'22

Local Actions of Participants

During five months the participants will be implementing their local projects on urban activism.

Feb'22

Local Festival and Closing Event

The local festival will help participants showcase their project results, get feedback and improve them. The activity will conclude Phase I.

Cause

The relevance to implement the project, coming from the team members.

In essence, we see urban activism as rural/urban-oriented action and grassroots engagement initiated by citizens that relates to urban space as ‘’mobilisation of human rights’’ circulating around the goals of collective needs or public infrastructure.
Zafar Saydaliev
CGE Erfurt e.V.
Although varied in the methods, the aim of this urban activism, in general, is to focus on improving the quality of urban environment and space, urban society, and urban life. Hence, the role of urban activism is more sensitive to the dynamics and challenges in society.
Dr. Ammalia Podlaszewska
CGE Erfurt e.V.
The project will concentrate on urban development to foster participation of citizens in decision-making processes, how to establish dialogue and how to involve local population in democratic and transparent decision making in their towns.
Natalia Sviridova
Yuksak Salokiyat
We hope to develop a civic education program and infrastructure for capacity building for active and motivated urban activists, young people, and civil society actors in small towns of Uzbekistan, aimed at improving the quality of life of people in small towns, such as Navoi, Angren, etc.
Feruza Madaliyeva
NGO Taraqqiyot
By creating the network of civil society actors and urban activists, we will create a network of multipliers who will transform the way people participate in decision-making, as a bottom-up approach, by learning how to establish dialogue processes.
Liliana Sin
Khorezm Rural Advisory Support Service
We hope to empower residents of regional towns in Uzbekistan concerned about the development of urban environment in district towns, keen to grass-root civic initiatives, and interested in participating in the proposed format “of P2P learning by doing”.
Elena Kan
Khorezm Rural Advisory Support Service