{"id":438,"date":"2018-02-01T15:43:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T11:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/iepf-celebrates-with-the-u-s-embassy-the-completion-of-joint-project\/"},"modified":"2018-02-01T15:43:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T11:43:16","slug":"iepf-celebrates-with-the-u-s-embassy-the-completion-of-joint-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/iepf-celebrates-with-the-u-s-embassy-the-completion-of-joint-project\/","title":{"rendered":"IEPF celebrates with the U.S. Embassy the completion of joint project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\tOn the January 21st U.S. Embassy representatives celebrated with the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/\" style=\"color: rgb(32, 101, 194);\">International Eurasia Press Fund<\/a>&nbsp;(IEPF) the completion of its \u201c<strong>Empowering IDP Youth in the Regions for Civil Society Participation<\/strong>\u201d project, implemented by the IEPF with financial support of the U.S. Embassy.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\tThe Head of the Terter District Executive Power Mustaqim Mammadov, IEPF President Umud Mirzayev, Political Affairs Officer in the US Embassy to Azerbaijan William Solley and Regional Refugee Coordinator from the Embassy of the United States of America in Georgia Jonathan Hayes together with IDP youth from Barda, Terter and Agdam regions attended the event.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\tDuring the event, the video and presentations about 15 years long-lasting cooperation between the IEPF with U.S. government, U.S. Embassy to Azerbaijan and IREX, in implementation of various humanitarian projects were demonstrated.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\tThen the Forum Theaters were presented by the IDP youth aimed to raise public awareness about environmental protection, sustainable development goals, early marriage and its negative consequences, prevention of drug addiction and tobacco production, increasing of the number of peace-oriented activities for struggling against extremism and violence.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\t\u201cSkillful hands\u201d photo exhibition which was organized by the youth from the IDP settlement No 866 in Barda region, the book with the poems and stories of talented IDP youth were presented within the framework of the event.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\tAfter the event, U.S. Embassy representatives got acquainted with the work of the IEPF in the region and visited the Tartar Vocational Training Center. The guests appraised IEPF\u2019s humanitarian activity.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\tThe IEPF President said that the achieved success is a sample of productive cooperation between the government and civil society in Azerbaijan.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\tMeanwhile, the project aimed at support and empowerment of talented IDP youth, improvement of their integration into society, empowerment of their participation in creation of civil society.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\tIn the first phase of the project the IDP youth gained the knowledge on how to write projects\u2019 concept papers, project management and fundraising skills. The projects like \u201cClean Tartar\u201d, \u201cLet\u2019s say NO to narcomania\u201d in Tartar region, \u201cBoomerang\u201d, \u201cThe Art of Hairdressing\u201d in Agdam region, \u201cSkillful hands\u201d, \u201cDance of the verses\u201d in Barda region were successfully implemented.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the January 21st U.S. Embassy representatives celebrated with the&nbsp;International Eurasia Press Fund&nbsp;(IEPF) the completion of its \u201cEmpowering IDP Youth in the Regions for Civil Society Participation\u201d project, implemented by the IEPF with financial support of the U.S. Embassy.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; The Head of the Terter District Executive Power Mustaqim Mammadov, IEPF President Umud Mirzayev, Political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}