ESTONIAN ROUNDTABLE

FOR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION (AKÜ)

Riina Kuusik AKÜ coordinator

The main success of the Platform during 2004

• Continued form of operation – an informal network

• Improving partner relations with the MFA• A few funding applications submitted and

approved:

for capacity-building:- CIDA/ODACE - Baltic-American Partnership Program- Open Estonia Foundation

for awareness raising:- Fair Trade (Estonian Green Movement/FoE)- Eastgate (Estonian European Movement)- Terveilm (Estonian Fund for Nature)

Main challenges facing AKÜ during 2005

• Financial sustainability

• Institutionalization

• Professionalization

Financial sustainability

• Very difficult to receive an institutional support

• Project based support is short-term and limited

• Member organizations not (yet) ready to contribute

Contact

Riina Kuusik, AKÜ coordinator

E-mail: rkuusik@online.ee

Address:

C/O Open Estonia Foundation

Estonia Ave. 5a, Tallinn 10143, Estonia

Tel. +372-56983050

Fax. +372-6313796

http://www.terveilm.net

Thank You!