NGO “Partnership Daugavkrasts” by implementing this project has envisioned a development of entirely new curricula – to energize the civic society and its representation in large and quite diverse Ķekava district of Latvia. Among results of the project there will be developed the policy and instrumental framework for the Partnership to become a NGO contact point by fostering the collaboration between NGO’s, encouraging and implementing new ideas and building the representation in local government and umbrella institutions. Potentially the development of the Ķekava NGO contact point would serve as a pilot platform for NGO contact point in Riga agglomeration area.

Project activities allow to audit the previous curricula of the Partnership, develop the documentation to support a new function – guidelines for the collaboration of non-governmental sector with local government, calculations of budget for NGO contact point and potential sources of such financing, the value framework and practical guidelines of inclusion of the member organisations of Partnership, voluntary work, asignment of the responsibilities and the annually recurring events calendar. To research and prepare the content of these documents, the Partnership will form a workgroup amongst its members, focus groups and seminar will be held to discuss and evaluate the conclusions of the audit, and to approve the best content of documents. In order to provide the needed insight and understanding of operation of NGO contact centre, an experience exchange trip will be organised to one of the NGO centres in Latvia. The web platform as prototype One-Stop NGO Agent will be developed to link the webpage of Partnership with project’s Facebook page and NGO contact groups.

It is expected, that this project will be an important contribution to the qualitative transformation process of NGO “Partnership Daugavkrasts” and entirely novel functional capacity of the organisation ensuring future sustainability.