Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Agriculture
Business and Industry
Citizenship and Governance
Criminal Justice
Culture
Development
Disabled Persons
Economics and Finance
Education
Energy
Extreme poverty
Financing for Development
Governance
Human Rights
Industrial Development
Intellectual Property
International Security
Justice
Labour
Least Developed Countries
Micro-Credit
Migration
Minority Rights
New Global Institutions
Peace and Security
Population
Private Sector
Refugees
Science and Technology
Social Development
Statistics
Sustainable Development
Taxation Policy
Technical Cooperation
Trade and Development
United Nations Reform
Values
Volunteerism
Women
Women/gender Equality
Youth
Financing for Development:
Addressing systemic issues
External debt
Increasing financial and technical cooperation for development
International Cooperation in Tax Matters
International Trade as an engine for development
Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development
Mobilizing international resources for development
Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
Advocacy and outreach
Capacity building
Education and training of women
Human rights of women
Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
Millennium Development Goals
Policy advice
Research
Service provision
Women and poverty
Women and the economy
Population:
International migration
Population distribution and internal migration
Population growth
Population structure
Public Administration:
Ethics, Transparency and Accountability
Governance and Public Administration
Knowledge Systems and E-government
Public Financial Management
Public Service and Management Innovation
Socio-Economic Governance and Management
Social Development:
Conflict
Cooperative
Disabled persons
Employment
Information and Communications Technologies
Poverty
Social policy
Technical cooperation
Youth
Statistics:
Civil registration systems
Country or region codes
Crime and criminal justice statistics
Demographic and social surveys
Development indicators
Household Statistics
International Comparison Programme
International Economic and Social Classifications
International migration
Labour and Compensation
National accounting
Official statistics, principles and practices
Poverty statistics
Price and Quantity Statistics
Services Statistics
Social Statistics and Social Monitoring
Sustainable Development:
Agriculture
Capacity-building
Consumption and production patterns
Education
Energy
Finance
Gender equality
Health
Indicators
Industrial development
Information for decision-making and participation
Institutional arrangements
Integrated decision-making
International cooperation for an enabling environment
Land management
Means of Implementation (Trade, Finance, Technology, Tranfer, etc.)
Mining
Partnerships
Poverty
Rural Development
Science
Sustainable Tourism
Technology
Trade and environment
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| Geographic scope: |
International
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| Country of activity: |
Belarus
Kazakhstan
Azerbaijan
Kyrgyzstan
Ukraine
Türkiye
Bulgaria
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Develop global partnership for development
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| Mission statement: |
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| Year established: |
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| Year of registration: |
2006 |
| Organizational structure: |
Macroeconomic Policy and State Budget Research Group – The group is charge in conducting research, carrying out projects and preparing policy recommendations on macroeconomic policy and state budget. The group is closely working with the government bodies as well as international financial organizations to develop recommendations packet. Studies done by the group are widely discussed among financial market participants, academics and senior officials, and their results are broadly reported by the media. Gender Development Group– The Group are doing research on gender issues. Since One of priorities of the Centre is to protect social and economic as well as gender rights, fight with corruption and enhance transparency. Centre is only member from Azerbaijan in the ATHENA-Advance Thematic Network in Activities in Women’s Studies in Europe . The group has closely relations with international gender institutions, think tanks and State Committee on Gender and Children Development of Azerbaijan Republic. The Group has had many presentations on gender development issues in distinguished international conferences. Competitiveness of the Azerbaijan Economy and Economic Growth Research Group– The group particularly focuses on the Azerbaijan Economy and does wide range researches for increasing competitiveness and promoting economic growth. The group is working in cooperation with the government bodies and holding round-table discussions and workshops with experts. Social Sphere and Public Sector Reform Research Group– The group is conducting comprehensive researches on social sphere and public sector. One of the main tasks of the group is to assist to achieve MDGs in Azerbaijan . In order to obtain this task the group has prepared and developed several policy recommendations packets and completed studies. The group works in the cooperation with certain government bodies to promote reforms in public sector and promote social development. Energy, Telecommunications, Transport, Trade Liberalization Research Group– The group conducts wide range research on energy, telecommunications, transport and trade liberalizations sectors. Oil contracts, pipelines as well as transparency in oil sector are searched by the group. The group has already prepared policy recommendations packet to assist Azerbaijan ’s accession to the WTO. Economic and Social Education Research Group– The group is charge in promoting economic and social education. Economic and social education is supported among educators, state officials, NGOs, Mass-Media representatives, students and etc. The center holds annual workshops on economic and social education. Poverty Reduction and Economic Development Group– The main purpose of establishing this group is to assist poverty reduction and obtaining of economic development. The group is doing studies and carrying out projects to promote PRSP principles and goals. The group is working along with international organization, government bodies, NGOs and other institutions to achieve MDGs in terms of poverty reduction. Local Financing and Municipality Budget Research Group– The group is doing research and carrying out projects to assist local economic and social development. Development of local budget work is one of priorities of the group. Financial System, Taxation and Fiscal Policy Research Group– The group supports reforms in fiscal system. Enhancing transparency in fiscal system is main task of the group. The group is carrying out studies to make fiscal system more flexible to apply international standards in this sector. Administrative Office– The office is charge in all administrative activities, such as promoting the center’s public relations, solving office problems and etc. |
| Number and type of members: |
5 Board Members, 8 full- and part-time staff, about 60 volunteers |
| Affiliation with NGO networks: |
PASOS, EU Civil Society Forum, Global Development Network, International Studies Association, Parliamentary Network on the World Bank, Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development, CIVICUS World Citizen's Alliance, NISPAcee, Global Integrity |
| Funding structure: |
Grants from Governments
Donations and grants from domestic sources
Foreign and international grants
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