Seminar on social partnership in North Caucasus held in IngushetiaTimur Aliyev, North Caucasus - A seminar on the “Development of Social Partnership in North Caucasus” was held in Ingushetia on December 19-21. The event was organised by the St. Petersburg-based centre "Strategiya" and the Moscow Helsinki Group in cooperation with the administration of the President of the Republic of Ingushetia. The participants included representatives of NGOs, government officials and journalists from Ingushetia, Chechnya, North Ossetia and the Stavropolsky region.
“The aim of the seminar is to develop social partnership in the regions of North Caucasus, that is all kinds of mutual cooperation between the authorities, civil society, business sector and press,” said Antuan Arakelyan, senior expert of the centre “Strategiya” and Moscow Helsinki Group.
“At first it is necessary to learn about what is going on with the media and the social sector in some of the regions and to which extent partnership betwen the authorities and the civil society exists there,” Arakelyan stated.
“The information is necessary because we live in a country with 90 political regimes – there are 89 subjects of the federation and there is the federation itself. The differences between the regimes are bigger than, for example, the difference between Great Britain and France,” Arakelyan said.
Arakelyan is convinced that partnership between the authorities and the civil society is usually implemented in the sector of care for the disabled or veterans. “And in more developed parts of Russia, such as the Stavropolsky region, the Permskaya oblast, Yekaterinburg, Moscow, there are even tenders for providing assistance to specific target groups – women, children, veterans, and people with mental disorders,” Arakelyan elaborated.
“In Chechnya, things are more complicated. There is no legislation necessary for this kind of partnership yet because there is no parliament and the president has been elected only recently... But even now partnership is possible - in the field of control of the payments of compensations,“ Arakelyan said.
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