Azer Mehtiyev acts as a trainer on budgeting process, monitoring of budget expenses and budget advocacy issues organized for NGO representatives and journalists. He is also a member of NGO Alliance for the Development of Municipalities that deals with decentralization initiatives and advocacy of the development of local self-governance and acted as the coordinator of the aforementioned Alliance in 2011-2013. Mr Mehtiyev is the lecturer for the School of “Enterprise Economy” at the Azerbaijan State Economic University.