Bulgaria

Human Rights Lens (2022-2024)

• Aim: Support human rights and develop innovative methods for human rights education. regions: Varshets, Montana, Blagoevgrad and Gotse Delchev
• Activities:
  1. Educational tools for teaching human rights for teachers and youth facilitators, including the manuals: "Teaching Human Rights" and «Dialoges about rights"
  2. Innovative educational practices for young people (Human Rights Lens/Video Labs) 
  3. Trainings for your people and educators 
• Partner: Partners Bulgaria Foundation
• Funding: Active Citizens Fund under the Financial Mechanism of European Economic Area
• Read more: 
  26.03.2022: Human Rights Lens (Partners Bulgaria Foundation)  

Increasing democratic competence and understanding of human rights among young people (2019-2022)

• Aim: Increase the democratic competence and human rights understanding among young people
• Activities: The partners has together with schools and museums developed an online platform with educational materials and other resources for human rights education: Education in human rights
• Partner: Partner Bulgaria Foundation
• Funding: EEA Grant.
• Read more: 
  02.10.21: Museum-skole samarbeid i Bulgaria
  20.05.20 Young people and human rights. National Study Report
  20.11.19 Bulgaria and democracy education 
  07.10.2019: Museum and Human Rights Education for Young People Partners Bulgaria For nation
                                                            

Development of a monitoring methodology and conducting national monitoring of policies and institutional practices regarding domestic and gender- based violence in Bulgaria (2019-2022) 

• Aim: Develop better mechanisms and tools to prevent domestic and gender-based violence in Bulgaria 
• Activities: Conduct surveys about the functioning of the existing mechanisms to combat domestic and gender-based violence. HRA will contribute with Norwegian experiences
• Partners: PULSE foundation (Pernik, Bulgaria), Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD, Sofia, Bulgaria)
• Funding: EEA Grant.
• Read More:  
  30.03.22 Bulgarian-Norwegian cooperation project in Bulgaria regarding domestic and gender-based violence
  15.03.20 Innsats mot vold i Bulgaria
  2019-2022 Development of monitoring methodology and conducting national monitoring of policies and institutional practices related to domestic violence and gender-based violence in Bulgaria
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"Build bridges for a change" (2018-2020)

• Aim: To produce Manual for training of vulnerable groups' representatives for their inclusion into policy making in a local level.
• Activities: Workshops on human rights and mechanisms of their protection, non-discrimination, identity, intercultural understanding; production of manual/ guidelines on decision-making process: Good examples from Norway/ CSOs in Norway.
• Partners: New Road Association, Bulgarian School of Politics "Dimitar Panitza".
• Funding: EEA Grants.

National Study on Domestic and Gender-Based Violence (2015-2017)

• Aim: Identify and prevent domestic and gender-based violence in Bulgaria
• Activities: Development of a nationwide interview survey, as well as, a report on the background of the study and the most important findings
• Partner: Partners Bulgaria Foundation (PBF, Sofia, Bulgaria) and Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD, Sofia, Bulgaria)
• Funding: EEA Grant. 
• Read more: 
  21.02.17 Article in Norwegian: Fri tanke 1/2017.
  03.10.16 Domestic and Gender-Based Violence in Bulgaria.  
  07.12.15 Workshop in Sofia. 
  21.08.15 Initial Meeting in Sofia. 

"Between Fact and Fake: Building Resilience to Misinformation". International workshop in Sofia, Bulgaria (2018) 

• A total of 30 participants from 14 European countries participated in the workshop "Between Fact and Fake: Building Resilience to Misinformation" in Sofia, Bulgaria on 28 and 29 May. The meeting was organized by the Faculty of Economic Sociology at the University of Sofia, the Partners Bulgaria Foundation and the Partners for Democratic Change (Slovakia). Participants were researchers, journalists, educators and representatives from a number of different civil society organizations.
• Read more here.