Together with Counterpart International and International Center for Not-for-Profit Law ECNL held a study visit for an official delegation from Azerbaijan on September 23-29, 2007.
President Ilham Aliyev has recently signed a presidential Decree on the State Support for NGOs in the Republic of Azerbaijan. The decree emphasizes the necessity for increasing state support to NGOs and improving government-NGO relations. The participants took part in sessions delivered by ECNL experts and partners. They also held meetings with a range of officials from the Hungarian government and Parliament and Hungarian NGO representatives.
This study visit was made possible through the Civil Society Project, which is a United States Agency for International Development initiative and implemented by Counterpart International in partnership with the Urban Institute, the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law and ECNL.