From 30 May to 3 June, IDU took part in the training workshop “Housing management and energy-efficient refurbishment of residential buildings” in Baku, Azerbaijan. The event was held within the project “HOME – The way forward for reforms in the housing sector: empowering grass-root homeowners associations in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine”.
One of the project’s objectives is to set up resource centres in the partner countries that provide information and advice to homeowners associations. The Baku workshop opened a series of training activities aimed at improving the skills of resource centre staff and their capacity to deliver assistance and advice.
The training covered:
- Forms of housing management: types and complexity of each form, procedures for establishing homeowners associations, and methods of motivating and working with homeowners;
- Renovation and energy-efficient modernisation of apartment buildings: main approaches, legal aspects, technical solutions and homeowner involvement.
The workshop also included study visits on housing management and meetings with association managers, utility service providers and local authority representatives.
For further information: Viorica Șcerbina, project assistant, IDU, tel./fax +373 22 21 14 67, e-mail: office@idu-moldova.org. Workshop press release: English, Russian.