Fighting Poverty Together [antikvár]

Introduction At the Conference of the International Council for Caring Communities in New York in February 2000, Budapest Mayor Gábor Demszky presented the Budapest Social Charter, in which principles of social policy in Budapest are laid out. Demszky announced the initiative to create the Budapest International Workshop, to collect, evaluate and share experiences in social policy implementation among local governments in Central and Eastern Europe. The first seminar of the Budapest International Workshop was held in Budapest Sept. 14 &15, 2001. Organizers were the Social Policy Committee of the Budapest Local Government and the Social Innovation Foundation. The event was sponsored by: Budapest Local Government Soros Foundation, Local Government Initiative Ambassador Fund ofthe British Know-How Fund Friedrich Ebért Foundation Conference participants were officials of local governments, professionals and leaders of innovative projects in social services from: Armenia Bosnia & Hercegovina Croatia