From February 26 to March 1, IDIS "Viitorul" hosted a mission of the Yone Kyi Yar Knowledge Propagation Society (YKY) from the Republic of Myanmar. The mission included the Operations director, Zaw Htet Aung and the Programme director Myo Htet. Representatives of the institute from Myanmar visited our country in order to strengthen their knowledge in the dialogue between the authorities and the private sector, as well as in the monitoring of the electoral process.

"Collaboration of civil society with public authorities must take place in a partnership relationship, in a constructive dialogue. And our institute, through the expertise and projects we are implementing, is trying to open the way for this dialogue. The exchange of experience between NGOs from different contexts and countries is absolutely necessary for the democratic process”, declared Viorel Pirvan, the legal expert at IDIS "Viitorul".

In this respect, Zaw Htet Aung and Myo Htet appreciated the contribution of IDIS "Viitorul" in the Europeanization of the public sector and the promotion of the national business.

The mission visit agenda also included a series of working meetings with representatives of various civil society organizations, such as Transparency International Moldova, Promo-LEX Association, CALM, Center for Policies and Reforms, Center for the Analysis and Prevention of Corruption, but and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Moldova.

Thus, representatives of the Yone Kyi Yar Knowledge Propagation Society mentioned that from each organization they met accumulated information, experience and good practice that they will implement in Myanmar to improve the communication with public authorities and support the values of democracy. They also admitted that in their country, the public-private dialogue is not at the highest level, and relations between economic agents often suffer from a lack of competitiveness.

"Meetings with organizations fighting corruption have made us understand more about strategies and tools against this phenomenon. For example, Transparency International uses caricatures as an anti-corruption tool, which is very effective in reaching out the mass community and easily understandable", believes Myo Htet, Programme director of the Yone Kyi Yar Knowledge Propagation Society.

In turn, the Operations director at the same institute, Zaw Htet Aung, stated "We learned a lot of things from CALM. Our country faces many challenges in decentralization, and the information provided by CALM representatives will be shared with public officials at local and regional level. Also, the discussion with the Promo-LEX team brought good understandings of why NGOs should work with international partners in order to be more effective in local politics and activities”.

The mission of "Yone Kyi Yar" Knowledge Propagation Society is to promote democracy and knowledge-based society in Myanmar.