Cím:	Annual Report 2000: Hungarian Association for Community Development
A kiadás helye:	Budapest
A kiadás éve:	2001
Kiadó:	Közösségfejlesztők Egyesülete
Nyelv:	angol
Tárgyszavak:	éves jelentés, HACD
Állomány:	Éves jelentések, Közösségfejlesztők Egyesülete alapdokumentumok
Megjegyzés:
Raktári jelzet:	E

1) The Small Grants Programme

In order to encourage local action and, at the same time, strengthen community development, the past circle of roles of the association have been expanded, and it has taken on sponsoring functions in the social arena. This means that, beyond providing professional assistance, the association is also active seeking to support, strengthen and develop local initiatives.

The preparatory activities of the Small Grants Programme were performed in 1999, with the following phases of work: conciliatory negotiations, looking for partners, fundraising, professional service and setting-up a donation committee.

Our partners include: the Autonómia Foundation, the Welfare Service Foundation, the Ökotárs (EcoFriend) Environmental Partnership Foundation, the Civil College Foundation, the Association for Community Development in the County of Békés, the Köz-tér (Public Space) Association in the County of Baranya, the Élettér (Living Space) Association in the County of Komárom, and the Community Service in the County of Vas.
Our sponsors include: the Mott Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Levi Strauss Foundation, and the Soros Foundation.

Our Service of Professionals (“Network of Service Professionals”): 8 people in 7 regions, in the capital city and in the surrounding areas.
Donation Committee: 1 person from the Autonómia Foundation, 1 person from the Welfare Service Foundation, 1 person from the Ökotárs (EcoFriend) Environmental Partnership Foundation, and 2 persons from the Association for Community Development. The five members of the donation committee work on a voluntary basis.

The Introduction of the Programme
The period ending in September 2000 was the period of introducing the programme and developing the first 7 local projects, the workers of which were given advice and training courses by the community development professionals of our service network. The funding was given out following the courses.
In the first round, 10 of the 13 ideas proposed by the local people were developed into project proposals by the assisting professionals. The following 7 of these 10 proposals received funding:

On the one hand, the support we provide consists of the professional assistance performed by a helping professional, and a week-end training course. The objective of this course is to recognise the role of initiators in local society, and to plan the realisation of the project. On the other hand, the support comprises the contribution to the finances needed for carrying out the project. All the local groups complete this amount with voluntary work, local governmental funding, and, occasionally, local entrepreneurs can be persuaded to donate money as well.
The project proposals go through a sort of preliminary evaluation, because the condition of submission is the preliminary co-operation with the helpers. This is what results in the good proportions (that around 50 per cent of the proposals are approved by the donation committee). It is important to note that even those proposals which are not approved receive a certain amount of support, in the form of consultation provided by our professionals. As a result, they can remain in the hope that they will be able to submit a more appropriate proposal in the future.

Pilot community development projects
Small regional development work is being carried on in the Upper-Kiskunság, with an emphasis on community economic development, and with results that go beyond those of regional activities.

Accreditation

The tuition of the subject of “community development” has been accredited:

Back in 1999 the leaders of the Civil College elaborated and submitted a proposal concerning the professional accreditation of community development as well as its inclusion in the National Training Register. The decision is due in the first half of 2001.

New applications for accreditation submitted in 2000:

The 2000 Annual Report of the Civil College Foundation gives a detailed list of professional training courses that were given last year.

Civil Training Courses

Our most important courses given during the past year were as follows:

(C.f. the 2000 Annual Report of the Civil College)

In Hungary:
2 seminars were organised for Gypsy community activists:

Abroad:

Parola
The Parola (Handshake), the newsletter of the association came out 4 times in 2000.

Civil Radio
In 2000 the Civil Radio won the frequency tender of the ORTT, which meant that it managed to renew its broadcasting license, and that now it has a wider range of effect (in a 70-kilometre circle around Budapest) with a better quality. This has entailed the restructuring of organisational and broadcasting functions.


Community Database
In 2000 the homepage of community development in Hungary - www.kkapcsolat.hu or www.kozossegfejlesztes.hu. - was reorganised by the staff running database, and almost the full variety of the contained professional materials was made freely available to everyone (for example, all the issues, articles and case studies of the Parola are now at the disposal of students in higher-education and of those interested). In this way, the Community Database has become the most important store of professional literature for students of community development at higher-educational institutions.
The staff of the Database have prepared the electronic publication titled “The Minimum You Should Know about Community Development” as well as the WEB-versions of the modules constituting the “Thinking about Democracy” project.
The database organises and runs a nation-wide e-mailing list called the Civil News Network.: Civil News, Gypsy Community Centres, CEBSD, Democracy Programme Network.

Grant money has allowed the association to begin the employment of 5 paid workers: two of them work in the management, two of them work full-time as project managers, and one of them works as a full-time organiser. The association provides the workers of the Small Grants Programme with an honorarium.

Internal training courses were held for the staff of the association in May and September 2000.




Financial Report

Expenditure	in 1000 HUF
I. Personal allowances & benefits paid by the employer:	7 988
Where: regular personal allowances irregular personal allowances personal allowances for non-staff members social insurance benefits employer-paid benefits	2 869 3 420 1 624 75
II. Material expenditure and other running expenses in total:	14 790
II/1. Material expenditure:	14 588
Where: purchase of materials and supplies: service costs in total: where: - overhead costs (gas, water, electricity, etc.) - rent - transportation, travel costs: communication costs (telephone & postage)	916 13 584 2 513 873 88
II/2. Other running expenses in total: (budgetary payments, taxes, fees, etc.)	202
III. Accumulation (investment & renovation) Costs:	4 623
TOTAL EXPENDITURE:	27 401
Income:
Income from performing main activity:	5 485
Income from enterprising:	89
Income from membership fees:	14
Income from applying for grants (please find details enclosed):	26 732
Income from interest rates:	299
Optionally offered 1 % contributions from income tax transferred by tax authority:	44
TOTAL INCOME:	32 663

It is necessary to have the circle of service professionals expanding, and to have an increasing number of service professionals who, beyond sympathising with development programs, also take part in them in a professional sense: community development professionals, local community workers and/or young, debuting professionals, who used to be our students. For this reason, the association has organised a “Workshop” allowing young professionals to attend internal training courses and to perform collective practical duties, which, at the same time, entail the launching of a local development programme (in the small region of Ózd). The young professionals attend the “Training the Trainers” Programme as well.

The professional and technical conditions of organisational communication are provided for (Community Database, Civil Radio, Parola). Our related duties for the coming year will include the maintenance of the level of communication, the performance of professional development work, and fundraising.

Although the proportion of Hungarian sources within our income has been improved, these sources do not provide general purposes grants, and foreign funding is therefore still dominant. This is because donations from abroad serve the free and self-defined development of the association, as they do not assign defined objectives and contents. In this way, their further utilisation is a desirable objective.
In the future we shall: