On April 28, within the framework of the cooperation between State Employment Agency and “Armenian Caritas” Benevolent NGO, a training- discussion on labor migration took place in Gyumri. Employees of State Employment Agency regional centers, some community heads from Shirak Province, labour migrants and other people actively involved in the sphere of labor migration took part in the training-discussion. The meeting aimed to update the participants on the latest regulation in the sphere of labour migration. As a result of the meeting, effective tools for targeting the upcoming meetings as well as the module of training session were elaborated.

“Armenian Caritas” Benevolent NGO organized an “Advocacy forum of the organizations dealing with children’s issues in the RA” in the city of Dilijan on February 21-22. The Forum aimed to bring together about 25 officials of the organizations implementing advocacy in the field of social protection of children in order to present and exchange the best practices in child rights protection processes. During the forum, the approaches of the UN Children’s Fund, World Vision Armenia, Child Protection Network, “Oxfam” Office in Armenia, OxYGen Fund, Maternal and Child Health Alliance and “Armenian Caritas” on advocacy implementation were presented by reports. Group presentations gave a chance to the participants to get acquainted with the approaches and organizational resources of “Save the Children International”