Recent experience in Eastern Europe & Eurasia

See also my webpage for Russian readers - Джеф Кокс, информация на русском языке

2009-2012 - Development of a new fair trade model based on intellectual property development (should result in a new range of products in the Oxfam Shops from 2013).

2010 - Restructuring Oxfam's country operation in Albania as a social enterprise.

2008-2009 - Advice to Oxfam on how social enterprise development might contribute to the anti-poverty programme they are currently running in Russia, and convening in October 2008 a broad-based 3-day training and discussion workshop on social enterprise development.

Development of a national social enterprise infrastructure-building programme and delivery of a seminar sequence for 'social firm champions' over January-May 2005 with the Valakupiai Centre for physically disabled people in Vilnius, Lithuania.

For evaluation contact Rasa Noreikyte, Project Coordinator rasa.noreikyte@reabilitacija.lt

Egidijus Biknevičius of Etalink - also a former president of the Lithuanian union of blind innovatorsSTOP PRESS... We've just heard that one of the participants in our Lithuania training programme, Egidijus Biknevičius, won the Lithuanian national 2008 Young Entrepreneur Medal of Merit for Business for his work establishing the ICT social enterpise Etalink (for a passable translation google 'Etalink' and select 'translate this page' for the top result).

Geof with participants in the NESsT Mongolia social enterprise development programme

Contracted as UK associate of NESsT in 2004 and in September delivery for NESsT of a 2week social enterprise training and development programme In Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia.

Contact Nicole Etchart, NESsT Chief Executive Officer netchart@nesst.org

Research into the support needs of the social enterprise sector in Ukraine for the Eurasia Foundation, and recommendations on the establishment of a new grant programme.

Social enterprise skills training commissioned by the Hamlet Trust for NGO staff and mental health service users from a number of Eastern European countries, delivered across 3day workshops in Kyiv, Ukraine, in Autumn 2002 and again in Spring 2004, and in Tirana, Albania, in Autumn 2003.

For evaluation contact Jo Lucas, former Hamlet Trust Chief Executive kastanja@btinternet.com

Training for CRS, in partnership with NESsT, on social enterprise skills, delivered in Sarajevo, BosniaHerzegovina, Summer 2003, as part of a financial sustainability training programme for NGOs from a number of South East European countries.

For evaluation contact Jason Vassiliades, CRS Regional Adviser Europe jasonv@crsbh.ba