A meeting of 25 Belarusian NGOs took place on November 9 1999 in the Belarusian office of United Nations Organization. The minimum working standards for resource centres offering their help to other non-governmental organizations (consultations, technical and informational assistance, educational projects, etc.) were discussed at the meeting..

Belarusian Resource Centers Minimum Standards of Work

The core principles, used by Belarusian Resource Centers for building relations, are partnership, frankness, ethic norms, refusal of unfair competition, corporate solidarity and mutual support.

Every non–governmental organization declaring itself as a resource center must provide the minimum standards of services for customers.

1. Information

• information about the resource center's activities

• its newsletter

• library refering to NGOs, such as management, guides of grantmakers and non–governmental organizations, etc.)

• current information about Belarusian NGOs' activities, possibilities of fundraising (calls for competitions, programs, etc.), innovations

• data base of Belarusian NGOs and financing organizations (foundations)

2. Consultations

• basic consultations on main issues of NGOs' activities (management, legal, accounting, proposal writing )

3. Education

• arrangement of "round tables", workshops and training courses on main issues of NGOs' activities

4. Integration

• arrangement of meetings and events for the purpose of the third sector consolidation and public integration

• popularization of Belarusian NGOs' activities in Belarus and abroad

5. Technical Assistance

• computers and photocopying machine

• means communication

• INTERNET

• room for customers' arranging meetings

• providing services 5 days a week

Note:

Non–governmental organizations, that provide a part of services of the resource centers minimum standards of work, may be called places of assistance or information points