The Summer School is organised annually for NGO’s in Estonia on current issues.
This year the Summer School focused on the ways of getting social and financial profit by delivering public services or developing enterprise.
The aim was to facilitate NGOs in following their mission and securing much-needed funding.
European Public Health Alliance, together with their regional partner Civic Allaince Latvia, contributed to the Summer School by sharing their experiences in developing national platforms as an effective tool for delivery of public services.
The Summer School lasted for two days and around 150 participants from different NGOs/NPOs of various fields took part. Ideas and experiences from Estonia and the world were shared in the form of lectures, discussions and workshops.
This year’s theme of the Summer School was chosen in 2005, when NENO began developing the paper on "Delegation of the delivery of public services to NGOs" - including training, meetings and the preparation of the "Good Practices of the Delivery of Public Services by the not-for-profit sector" under the framework of the Estonian Civil Society Development Concept, EKAK in Estonian.
The document was reviewed and approved by EKAK’s joint committee and it will significantly influence the cooperation of public authorities and not-for-profit organisations, as well as strengthen the financial viability and the self-sustainability of NGOs.
