I.M.PACT (Introducing methodology in Education for Democratic Citizenship Initiatives of the Stability Pact) Project is a new initiative for South-East Europe aiming at developing management capacities for EDC projects by introducing and disseminating a comprehensive methodology for participatory project planning and self-evaluation.

Involving six beneficiary and partner institutions from six participating countries – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Moldova, Romania and Serbia – the project has been developed to respond to the need for capacity building in project design and management, which was identified in the Monitoring Report of the EDC–Working Group.

The Project is also aiming at developing the “evaluation culture” as a mean for quality ensurance in EDC projects implementation. The Federal Office of Education and Science of Switzerland and the SDC/OZA fund the project and KulturKontakt, an Austrian organisation involved in the Stability Pact and in the region, is the implementing institution.

The I.M.PACT project relies on six partners in the above mentioned South-East European countries that have well-defined roles in this project and who aim to become national and regional centres of expertise:

• Intercultural Institute, Timisoara (Romania) ... organization profile
• Kosova Education Center, Prishtina (Kosovo) ... organization profile
• U.G. D@dalos, Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) ... organization profile
• Belgrade Office of IIZ/DVV (Serbia and Montenegro) ... organization profile
• FAR Association for Democratic Education, Burgas (Bulgaria) ... organization profile
• Educational Centre Pro Didactica, Chisinau (Moldova) ... organization profile

Each institution delegated one representative as a member of the project reference group. The Project started in January 2004 and is expected to end in July 2005.

I.M.PACT is aiming at achieving the following objective:
In six participating countries of South-East Europe the capacity building for participatory project planning and self-evaluation will increase.

The subsidiary, value-adding, objectives are the following:

• to establish a network of centres of expertise which will be enabled to provide tailor-made training in project planning, monitoring and (self)-evaluation, according to specific needs;

• to provide and promote models of good practice in the management of projects, both by NGOs and by government organisations and institutions.

In order to achieve this objective, the project is implementing the following main activities as part of a commonly developed and agreed approach:

• training of the representatives from the partner institutions;
• development of a training toolbox and translation in the languages of the partner countries;
• selection of trainers from each participating country;
• training of trainers in participatory project planning and self-evaluation;
• selection of in-country training participants and delivering of trainings;
• in-county follow-up activities;
• reference group meeting and self-evaluation session.

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