2012-03-12

March 10-12, EPSAYA public union organized 3 days training courses within the project of “Building leadership skills of young people from rural areas” for the 25 youth participants from the 11 different regions of the Azerbaijan Republic – Astara, Baku, Bilasuvar, Jabrayil, Jalilabad, Lerik, Lankaran, Masalli, Neftchala, Sabirabad and Yardimli in AB Qala Hotel, Lankaran city. There were 8 women and 17 men youth participants in the training courses. Besides the staff there were two trainers – Mr. Gurban Karimbayli, the expert-trainer from Baku, and Mr. Samir Akhundov, the local trainer from Lankaran in the training courses. During the training courses the staff and the participants discussed a lot of themes related to leadership skills – “The concept of civil society - civil society institutions, citizen activism, and civil position, social activities, formal, non formal and non-formal education concepts, forms and general information about CV, the design of a professional resume, letter of motivation, preparation, and ways to get information about jobs and job search skills, effective ways to find a successful job, career counseling centers, interviews and the secrets of a successful interview, conduct business, personal and professional development of young people, democracy, the concepts of state and society, human rights and freedoms, Children's Rights, International and local human rights security institutions, gender, tolerance and stereotype”. During the training courses the staff used different roleplaying games, interactive group works, debates, simulations, focus group discussions and presentations and more other training methods including watching to the different social wheels related to the topics throughout the entire session. Mr. Alex Grigorievs, Country Director, Mr. Sanan Suleymanov, Senior Project Coordinator and Ruslan Asad, Program Officer of NDI Azerbaijan Chapter also participated in the training courses and shared their rich knowledge and experiences with the participants. They discussed the future activities related to the project, especially organizing of the next training courses in Lankaran. In the end of the training courses the participants and the staff gave their views on the project and thanked to the guests including the donors – NDI and USAID Washington DC for realizing such kind of project for the youth from the rural areas.