{"id":161,"date":"2019-08-11T13:56:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T11:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.policy-studies.de\/?page_id=161"},"modified":"2022-09-07T08:06:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T06:06:12","slug":"where-we-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.policy-studies.de\/whoweare\/where-we-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Where we work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#12018f\"><strong>Regional Expertise<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Building up on in-house experts and long-standing in-country contacts <strong>Policy Studies<\/strong>\n provide in-depth knowledge on Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Balkans \nand other Eastern European countries. Their expertise is focused on, \nhowever, not limited to the following countries:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table aligncenter is-style-regular\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Central Asia <\/strong><br>Kazakhstan<br>Kyrgyzstan<br>Tajikistan<br>Uzbekistan <\/td><td><strong> The Caucasus <\/strong><br>Armenia<br>Azerbaijan<br>Georgia <br><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>The Balkans <\/strong><br>Albania<br>Bosnia and Herzegovina<br>Kosovo<br>Montenegro<br>North Macedonia<br>Serbia <\/td><td><strong>Eastern Europe <\/strong><br>Belarus<br>Moldova<br>Ukraine<br>Russia<br><br><\/td><td><\/td><td><br><br><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"517\" src=\"https:\/\/www.policy-studies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Landkarte-1024x517.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.policy-studies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Landkarte-1024x517.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.policy-studies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Landkarte-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.policy-studies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Landkarte-768x388.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption>Conducting an evaluation: Mapping of beneficiaries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#12018f\"><strong>Sectoral Expertise<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2001 <strong>Policy Studies<\/strong> provide consulting services on democratisation issues such as <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>elections (legal assistance, election observation, capacity building of electoral management bodies) and <\/li><li> community participation (community mobilisation, lobbying and advocacy, participation in elections) .  <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Our strengths lie in advancing<strong> good governance and anticorruption<\/strong> in and with development and civil society organisations. Specifically, we assist in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>design of anticorruption systems of development and civil society organisations, <\/li><li>provide training on anticorruption online and in person, and<\/li><li> review\/audit of anticorruption systems applying a learning approach.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We have outstanding experience in <strong>working on, in, around conflict situations<\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>writing early warning assessments<\/li><li>implementing projects aimed at preventing major conflicts<\/li><li>documenting and monitoring conflict situations<\/li><li>evaluating projects aimed at mitigating the consequences of conflict.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.policy-studies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Training-1024x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.policy-studies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Training-1024x570.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.policy-studies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Training-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.policy-studies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Training-768x427.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption>Conducting a training: identifying target groups for reports<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regional Expertise Building up on in-house experts and long-standing in-country contacts Policy Studies provide in-depth knowledge on Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Balkans and other Eastern European countries. Their expertise is focused on, however, not limited to the following countries: Central Asia KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanUzbekistan The Caucasus ArmeniaAzerbaijanGeorgia The Balkans AlbaniaBosnia and HerzegovinaKosovoMontenegroNorth MacedoniaSerbia Eastern Europe BelarusMoldovaUkraineRussia &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.policy-studies.de\/whoweare\/where-we-work\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eWhere we work\u201c<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.policy-studies.de\/whoweare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.policy-studies.de\/whoweare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.policy-studies.de\/whoweare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.policy-studies.de\/whoweare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.policy-studies.de\/whoweare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.policy-studies.de\/whoweare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/www.policy-studies.de\/whoweare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.policy-studies.de\/whoweare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}