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Welcome to DIANET!
DIANET (Dialogue for Interaction, Advocacy and Networking Capacity Building) is the most recent project undertaken by the King Baudouin Foundation as part of its wider programme, the Minority Rights in Practice in Southeast Europe , which operates at national, regional and European levels with the aim of improving minority rights practice and participation across all countries of Southeast Europe.

The DIANET project was launched in January 2006, with the support of the European Commission’s CARDS Regional Programme. Its objectives are to improve advocacy skills at local, national and regional levels through an established network of civil society organisations in Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania and Serbia and Montenegro.

This web site represents the main hub of the DIANET network and will ensure a constant source of advice and information to all CSOs involved. As well as providing up-to-date information on minority rights (existing legal frameworks, reports on the situation of minorities and existing practices in the countries in the region), the website will also encourage the transfer of knowledge and know-how through training and capacity building tools and practical cases produced by the project partners as well as the latest news about their work.

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Latest news from the partners
Kosovo: Progress on the use of minority language in education
The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC-Kosovo) organized a round table with representatives from minority communities, government, primary and secondary schools and their administrations.
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Macedonia: Low awareness but willingness to improve ethnic participation
More than 300 representatives from the civil and government sectors took part in training sessions organized in 12 municipalities over the last 18 months to improve citizen and ethnic minority participation in local government.
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Montenegro: Ethnic distance research
As part of the Minority Rights in Practice project in Montenegro, the Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CEDEM) conducted a quantitative survey on ethnic distance in Montenegro, using the Bogardus scale.
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Romania: Training needed to accommodate local diversity
36 representatives from local authorities and decentralized government institutions from 6 counties in north-western Romania completed 2 training sessions organized by the Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center (EDRC) aimed at improving local authority awareness of ethnic minority needs and the instruments available to address these needs.
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Serbia: Awareness building and training on minority rights
May-June saw a national poster campaign to promote national minority rights with the slogan “Equal rights of big and small, majorities and minorities, are the heart of democracy”.
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Macedonia: Dialogue for interaction
In June 2007 Common Values organized conference on the following topic “Dialogue for interaction-vision for cooperation of the representatives of ethnic communities and institutions on local level". The aim of the conference was to incite dialogue for interaction between the representatives of the ethnic communities and local institutions in the decentralization process.
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Macedonia: National conference

Dialogue for interaction – vision of cooperation of the representatives of the ethnic communities and institutions on local level

In Continental Hotel (Crystal Hall), Skopje on June 26, 2007 at 10 hrs Common Values organizes one-day conference: Dialogue for interaction – vision of cooperation of the representatives of the ethnic communities and institutions on local level.

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A new MRP publication on “Good Governance in Multiethnic Communities”
The Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center (Romania) has put together a publication which serves as an instrument to promote a common understanding of the concept of good governance, as well as a guide to apply good governance in multiethnic communities.
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Macedonia: Role of commissions for minority relations and rights of ethnic communities
Law on Local Self-governance of the Republic of Macedonia (“Official Gazette of RM” Number 5/2002) in Article 55 envisages establishing of Commission for Minority Relations. Commission should be established within municipal bodies in which over 20% of the population belong to a certain ethnic community.
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The DIANET Toolkit for Minority Rights Advocacy is now available!
The Toolkit provides resource materials, practical tools and reference cases for NGOs dealing with minority rights in Southeast Europe.

The material and case studies collected during “Training of Trainers” (ToT) programme in Albania, Macedonia and Serbia, together with input from the wider MRP network of partners, have now been edited and included in the DIANET advocacy toolkit and trainers’ handbook, “Minority Rights Advocacy in South-East Europe, A Toolkit for NGOs”.
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