ESTONIAN ROUNDTABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION (AK

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ESTONIAN ROUNDTABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION
(AKÜ)
Riina Kuusik AKÜ coordinator
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The main success of the Platform during 2004

• Continued form of operation an informal network
• Improving partner relations with the MFA
• A few funding applications submitted and
  approved
• for capacity-building
• - CIDA/ODACE
• - Baltic-American Partnership Program
• - Open Estonia Foundation
• for awareness raising
• - Fair Trade (Estonian Green Movement/FoE)
• - Eastgate (Estonian European Movement)
• - Terveilm (Estonian Fund for Nature)

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Main challenges facing AKÜ during 2005

• Financial sustainability
• Institutionalization
• Professionalization

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Financial sustainability

• Very difficult to receive an institutional
  support
• Project based support is short-term and limited
• Member organizations not (yet) ready to
  contribute

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Contact

• Riina Kuusik, AKÜ coordinator
• E-mail rkuusik_at_online.ee
• Address
• C/O Open Estonia Foundation
• Estonia Ave. 5a, Tallinn 10143, Estonia
• Tel. [phone]
• Fax. [phone]
• http//www.terveilm.net

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Thank You!