Siyab Memmedli: “it appeared that there are many important projects for development of civil society among the projects that is financed by the State Support Council.”<br /> IEPF continues the execution of the project “The Monitoring of the projects financed by the State Support Council to Non-Government Organizations under the President of Azerbaijan Republic.” Monitoring has been carried out in 30 organizations which fulfilled grants processes. This information was given by Siyab Memmedli, the Head of Program Department of IEPF, and a member of the working group of the above mentioned project. He stated that they had not met serious challenges during the monitoring nor disagreeable cases connected with the fulfillment of the project:
“We have not observed so serious challenges during the monitoring of the projects. Of course, there are mistakes/errors which do not influence fundamentally the quality of the work, but these mistakes can be corrected.”
Siyab Memmedli did not point out name of any organization but stated that they would give more concrete information in the future: “I would like to emphasis that monitoring of 113 projects from 226 projects of the State Support Council to NGOs are carried out by IEPF, monitoring of the other 113 projects are carried out in the Independent Scientific-Practical Right Centre. Monitoring fulfillment of each project can be carried out several times. We shall inform interested parties when the monitoring finishes completely.”
Siyab Memmedli also stressed that there appeared many impotent projects for the development of civil society among the projects financed by the State Support Council to NGOs. It should also be noted that prior to the monitoring of the projects financed by the State Support Council to NGOs, the working group of IEPF and Independent Scientific-Practical Right Centre were trained by Lutful Kabir, international consultant/adviser for two days.