Dear All
Received from the BEARR Trust
Best wishes
Ute
The BEARR Trust Annual Conference 2009
20 November 2009
CAN-Mezzanine, 32-36 Loman Street, London SE1 0EE
Twenty Years On: Children and NGOs in Russia and
the Region
(marking the 20th anniversary of the
UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child)
9.00 Registration and coffee
9.30 Welcome and Introduction
Tony Longrigg, Chairman, The BEARR Trust
9.45 Twenty Years On: how have children fared
in Russia and the Region?
Dr Christopher Gerry, Senior Lecturer in
Political Economy, SSEES, UCL, and BEARR
Trustee
Discussion
Chair: Robert Scallon, BEARR Trustee
10.15 Spreading good practice
Joanna Rogers, Russia Programme
Director, Everychild
10.45 Coffee
11.15 Introducing a new concept
Anna Gorchakova, Director, Belarusian
Children’s Hospice
Deinstitutionalisation – an ongoing argument
Maria Ternovskaya, Our Family, Moscow
Discussion.
Chair: Daryl Ann Hardman, BEARR Trustee
12.30 Buffet lunch
13.45 Using the media and influencing public
opinion Irina Menshenina, Downside Up,
Moscow
Adapting to a changing NGO environment
Rachel Smith, London office, and
Shona McGrahan, Moscow office, Action for
Russia’s Children (ARC)
Discussion
Chair: Alan Philps, journalist