Friday, June 29, 2007

WEBSITE- Launch of the Economic Policy Institutes Network's (EPIN) Website

Distrib. by: Central-Eurasia-L - Announcement List for Central Eurasian Studies


WEBSITE- Launch of the Economic Policy Institutes Network's (EPIN) Website

Posted by: Diana Bayzakova <diana.bayzakova@cer.uz>

The www.epinetwort.org, is created as a bi-lingual on-line resource to
serve the needs of experts and researchers in information sharing and
experience exchange in CIS countries and Central and Eastern Europe. The
on-line resource aims at facilitating cooperation and networking among
economic policy institutes (EPI) to strengthen their potential in policy
advice.

Economic Policy Institutes Network was initiated by the UNDP Regional
Bureau for Europe and CIS in 2004 think tanks or supporting development of
economic policy institutes (EPI) in Europe and CIS countries in transition
with particular emphasis on low and middle income countries. The principal
goal of the initiative is to develop the capacity of economic policy
institutes in the target countries so as to provide these countries with
independent, sophisticated voices in policy issues.

The network joins a number of institutions from Eastern Europe and CIS
countries with relatively high income and low or middle income countries
of Central Asia, Caucasus, South-Eastern Europe and CIS. It facilitates
active interaction among these institutions. They are getting more and
more involved into the joint projects on multilateral and bilateral basis,
and strengthen their capacities in terms both research capacities and
fundraising.

The web-site incorporates the services that foster communication during
implementation of joint initiatives both among the network members and
other portal users, effect online education and offers a technical
platform for data and knowledge exchange to run joint projects by EPIN
members.

The web-site offers accumulated analytical publications on main
development issues in transition economies. The services offered in the
portal are supposed to enhance the capacity of researchers and experts and
update on the latest developments on social-economic issues in the region.
There are a number of databases, which present EPIN members' products and
activities: in the database of EPIN think-tanks all necessary background
information about each EPIN Network member is available; in the
publication database almost all online publications of EPIN think-tanks
and other external publications are posted; the events database alerts on
all main developments inside each EPIN think-tank, posts main
social-economic developments in CIS and Central and Eastern Europe,
conference calls, research and education grant opportunities and any other
announcements that are of any interest to both EPIN members and other
portal users. In the experts database a résumé of EPIN experts and
researchers and any external professionals are available. In a later stage
the web-resource plans such services as on-line education, e-forums,
e-conferences, which will be conducted by EPIN members or other external
institutions.

The www.epinetwort.org portal is developed and being maintained by the
Central Asian Gateway (CAG) project. For more information please write to
the following addresses: umida.hashimova@cer.uz (Umida Hashimova) or
cagateway@cer.uz.


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