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| PRESS RELEASE Survey designed to update REC`s NGO Directory (September 4, 2006, Szentendre, Hungary and Cambridge, MA, United States of America) |
| Upcoming Survey of Environmental NGOs in CEE conducted by Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will update the REC’s popular NGO Directory. Szentendre, Hungary and Cambridge, MA, United States of America – September 4th, 2006: Late this fall, a survey will be sent to environmental NGOs in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The survey, which is a collaborative effort between the REC’s NGO Support Programme and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is designed to update the REC's CEE NGO Directory. The directory is used extensively by donors, government agencies, researchers, and other NGOs. It has not been updated since 2001, and thus much of the information is no longer accurate. The survey will also be used to assess the capacity challenges that environmental NGOs in CEE are facing, the roles that they play in environmental policy and planning, and the ways in which they have adapted to the transitions that have taken place both within their countries and internationally. According to MIT Professor JoAnn Carmin, who has been conducting research on environmental NGOs and environmental mobilization in communities in Central and Eastern Europe for over a decade: "This knowledge will be important to policy scholars and analysts since it will provide a systematic and comprehensive overview of NGO development, accountability, and influence in the wake of EU accession. I also expect that the results will be useful to donors as they set their funding priorities for the region”. Robert Atkinson, the REC’s Director of Civil Initiatives, notes that “it has always been important for the REC to keep abreast of changes within environmental civil society across the region – this process offers us the opportunity to update our understanding, and our NGO database, to the situation in 2006; we are grateful to Professor Carmin for this opportunity”. It is anticipated that the updated directory and overview of the survey results will be available on the REC website in early 2007.
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