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 Legislatures and Citizens Project |
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From 2001 through 2004, the FDBF as a partner of the East-West Parliamentary Practice Project (EWPPP) Amsterdam, implemented in Bulgaria the Legislatures and Citizens Project. |
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It was carried out concurrently in eight countries in Southeastern Europe (Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro and Kosovo) and was geared towards developing a true working relationship between parliaments and NGOs. The program was divided into two complementary stages: civil society feedback on draft legislation and the staging of public debates.
An on-going, regional, parliamentary/civil society exchange program ran parallel to the broader program. These exchanges gave participants an inside look at their neighbors' parliaments and a chance to better understand the different constructive roles that civil societies were trying to play in their respective countries.
In Bulgaria, the project encouraged legislators and civil society representatives to bridge the gap between the citizens and the institutions, particularly the parliament. The Legislatures and Citizens Project helped parliamentarians find mechanisms to facilitate the process of gaining public support for new legislation and ways of increasing citizens' involvement in lawmaking as well as confidence in the legislative institution.
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