Activism and Grassroots For Rule of Law

Justice, equality and the law - the same for everyone! It's all clear, isn't it? Every professional and activist in the civil sector can associate themselves with these values. But how easy is it to work for and uphold the principles of the rule of law? And how do we engage communities and citizens with it so that we drive change?   

These are the questions that the Impact Drive team and Dexis Consulting Group set out to develop a series of trainings to support NGO professionals in developing activities and engaging communities with rule of law themes and tasks.   

The training focuses on building in-depth competencies in practitioners, activists, youth workers from CSOs to work with the EU's founding values, with a focus on law and justice. We offer a dynamic, experiential, values-based training that will allow us to test basic concepts and approaches and analyse the links between the rule of law and other fundamental values such as democracy, dignity, equality and human rights. We will learn about the main pillars of solidarity and the path to active citizenship and outline the possibilities for our work in Bulgaria. 

The preliminary training program covers: 

Justice as a human right and law from a personal perspective

The rule of law and intersection with fundamental European values

The rule of law in NGO work

Empowerment and promoting civic participation - from learning to practice

As developing competences involves building knowledge, skills and attitudes, we invite you to join this kind of 4 day team building, where we will borrow from informal learning, and engage you in experiential learning, discussions and role play case studies, with opportunities for self-assessment and learning. We'll challenge you to rethink your approaches to work and opportunities to build on, as well as network and open the way to different partnerships. 

This training is designed for practitioners who design and implement projects and programmes in civil society organisations, youth workers, activists, mediators and experts dedicated to working with communities, as well as informal leaders who work for social justice and the rule of law and share pan-European values. Also suitable for supervisors and programme managers.

ТAs developing competencies involves the accumulation of knowledge, skills and attitudes, we invite you to join this unique 4-day team building, where we will borrow from informal learning and engage you in experiential learning, discussions and role-playing case studies, with opportunities for self-assessment and learning. We'll challenge you to rethink your approaches to work and opportunities to build on, as well as network and open the way to different partnerships. 

This training is designed for practitioners who design and implement projects and programmes in civil society organisations, youth workers, activists, mediators and experts dedicated to working with communities, as well as informal leaders who work for social justice and the rule of law and share pan-European values. Also suitable for supervisors and programme managers. 

Lecturers in the training will be: 

Diana Nedeva

Project manager, trainer and facilitator with experience. Since 2013 she has been working with civil society organizations coordinating projects, initiatives and volunteers. Her experience as a trainer and facilitator is broad and mostly related to thematic trainings, values-based trainings, strategy meetings and innovation camps - working mostly with NGO representatives, teachers and youth. In the last few years her main focus has been on themes such as social change, design thinking, working with communities, entrepreneurship. Diana is an alumna of the Professional Fellows Program training in community organizing models.

Theodora Ivanova-Vuleva

Diverse experience related to project management and training in the public sphere, in management consulting and the last 12 years working with causes and in public benefit. In 2017 she was one of the founders of Impact Drive Foundation and since 2021 she is fully dedicated to the organization. Extensive and in-depth experience in authoring trainings on topics focused on the work and organizational development of NGOs and social entrepreneurs. Works on topics of diversity and inclusion, solidarity, etc.

Certified trainer as a 2022 successful graduate of the Erasmus+ Youth Programme training of trainers. She is part of the U.S. federal professional exchange program in community organizing, specializing in the topic of women's equity globally. 

She holds two master's degrees in management and business administration (UNWE and IFAG).

The training is funded by USAID, through Dexis Consulting Group.