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PARTNERSHIP • INCLUSION • GROWTHwww.civilnodrustvo.rs
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RESULTS OF AWARDED PROJECTS
SUPPORT TO CIVIL SOCIETY PROJECT
The European Commission’s Enlargement Strategy for the period 2010-2011 stressed out clearly that ‘Civil society activities are essential for a mature democracy, the respect for human rights and the rule of law’, while observing that ‘civil society activities enhance political accountability, stimulate and expand the space for discourse on societal choices and strengthen the consensus for a pluralistic society’ and concluding that ‘lively and vibrant civil society is conducive to tolerance and reconciliation’.
Responding to the stated views of the European Commission, the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Serbia launched the Support to Civil Society programme in October 2010, as a part of the wider Civil Society Facility programme.
The programme has been implemented through a Call for Proposals, with the overall goal to support active civil society participation in Serbia’s EU-integration, and with specific objectives to build social cohesion and overcome discrimination in Serbian society by promoting tolerance and cultural diversity; and also to support active civil society participation in the socioeconomic development.
The Support to Civil Society Call for Proposals has been published in December 2010, and closed in March 2011, generating high interest amongst Serbian, regional and EU-based civil society organisations, as 284 applications were received. Upon evaluation, 43 actions were selected and awarded financial support. The grants awarded to civil society organisations amount to 4 million EUR and originate from IPA 2009 and IPA 2010 aid programmes.
The results of the 43 awarded actions, finalised by June 2012, are presented in this publication. They are presented according to the thematic fields of operations, including: Antidiscrimination and Cultural Diversity and Socio-economic Development.
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Integration Workshop implemented The Well project ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................8
Belgrade’s Philharmonic Foundation implemented We Understand Each Other project ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................9
RESOURCE CENTRE Majdanpek implemented Theatre Against Prejudice project ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................10
Centre for Cultural Decontamination implemented New Politics of Solidarity through Cultural and Knowledge Production project ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................11
BAZAART implemented Intercultural Drama Education and Learning project ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................12
Adult Education Society implemented Elderly in Serbia project .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................13
GROUP 484 implemented INCLUDE - INterCulturalism through LiteratUre and DialoguE project ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................14
Fund B92 implemented
Free Zone Jr. in Primary Schools and the Region project ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................15
Association OPEN CLUB implemented Balkan Youth Forum for Tolerance project ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................16
Centre for Democracy Foundation implemented Let’s Stop Age Discrimination and Endorse Active Ageing project ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................17
Ecumenical Humanitarian Organisation implemented Enhancing Social Cohesion by Developing Non-discriminative Policy for Street Children project .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................18
Housing Centre implemented Support to Civil Society project .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................19
Praxis implemented European Good Practices - Advocacy Tool in Serbia project .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................20
Educational Centre Leskovac implemented Equal Opportunity project ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................21
Committee for Human Rights in Niš implemented People Crossroads project .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................22
Novi Sad Humanitarian Centre implemented All Different, All Equal project .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................23
Centre for Quality Education implemented Clubs for Children and Youth project ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................24
Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights implemented Combating Discrimination on All Grounds in Serbian Education System project ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................25
Centre for Regionalism implemented Free Movement of People and Goods between Kosovo* and Serbia in the Context of Regional Cooperation project ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................26
Association of Independent Electronic Media implemented Crossing the Bridge of Diversity project ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................27
Partners for Democratic Change implemented Partnership for Tolerance and Anti-Discrimination Protection in Serbia project ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................28
Centre for Advanced Legal Studies implemented Fighting Discrimination and Building a Culture of Tolerance through Dialogue, Legal Reform and Active Monitoring of Discriminatory Practice project .........................................................................................................................29
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Treehouse implemented Work, Order and Recycling project ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................32
Organisation for Respect and Care of Animals implemented Farm Animal Welfare Standards in Serbia project ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................33
Centre for Free Election and Democracy implemented Inclusion of Civil Society Organisations in Energy and Climate Policy Making at Local Level project ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................34
Nature Conservation Movement of Sremska Mitrovica implemented Supporting the Local Socio-economic Development through Eco-tourism in Protected Areas project ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................35
IKV Pax Christi implemented Novi Pazar: A Place to Meet project .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................36
Leader+ Banatski Karlovac implemented Banat Educational Households project ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................37
Civic Initiatives implemented Public Participation through Local Partnerships project .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................38
Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia implemented Greater Transparency of Local Governments - Citizens’ Right, State’s Obligation project ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................39
Toplica Centre for Democracy and Human Rights implemented For Sustainable Anti-Corruption Policy project ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................40
ASTRA – Anti Trafficking Action implemented Make It Work! - Fighting Trafficking and Exploitation of Workers project .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................41
Confederation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Vojvodina implemented Prevention of Harassment at Workplace through Social Dialogue project ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................42
Centre for Consumers’ Protection FORUM implemented Active Consumers project ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................43
SPARK Business Start-Up Centre implemented Youth Entrepreneurship Civil-Public Partnership project .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................44
European Movement in Serbia implemented Development of Social Entrepreneurship in Serbia project ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................45
Centre for Society Orientation implemented Social Services for Persons with Disabilities as Support for Equal Socio-economic Development project ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................46
Micro Development Fund implemented Support to Civil Society for Local Socio-economic Development and Social Inclusion project ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................47
Youth with Disabilities Forum implemented Career Guidance Local Platform project ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................48
Mental Disability Rights Initiative of Serbia implemented United in Action: Employment of Persons with Disabilities through Public-Private Partnership project .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................49
SeConS-Development Initiative Group implemented Localization of EU Social Inclusion Policy in Serbia project ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................50
Association of Business Women in Serbia implemented Reducing Young Women Unemployment in Serbian Underdeveloped Municipalities by Supporting Self-employment
in Service and Tourist Sectors project .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................51
Balkan Community Initiatives Fund implemented Through Employment towards Inclusion of Persons with Disability in Serbia project ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................52
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ANTIDISCRIMINATION AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
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Integration Workshop implemented
The Well project
‘Indeed, Europeans share a common cultural heritage, which is the result of centuries of cre-ativity, migratory flows and exchanges. They also enjoy and value a rich cultural and linguis-tic diversity, which is inspiring and has inspired many countries across the world’, European Agenda for Culture.
This project aimed at generating public support for struggle against inequalities in Serbian society, by developing and present-ing a professional theatre play titled ‘The Well’.
‘The Well’ premiered in December 2011 with nine more perfor-mances undertaken afterwards (still playing), and has been widely promoted throughout the media. Plays were followed by the open debates between the 300 children and young people, in total, and the play director, writer and the actors are all prominent public figures of the Serbian theatre. Debates covered topics related to
young people pertain-ing issues and the inter-generational conflicts and their links to the general development.
The play reached to 1,500 audiences and has been invited to the official competition programme of the Sterija Theatre Fes-tival in Novi Sad, and two festivals in BiH, in Zenica and Banja Luka. It won the award for the best play at the Fourth Inter-national Theatre festival in Smederevo.
The project included the interlinks between Culture, Theatre, Arts and Tolerance and has been implemented in cooperation be-tween the artists of former Yugoslavia countries.
More information available at:http://www.krug-beograd.rs/projects_well.html
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The play talks about a small city in Bosnia, strongly affected by the degraded wars, ethnic conflict and predominant regressive approach. Torn by ethnic prejudices and ste-reotypes, the main characters are being rejected by the community for the single fact that their parents belonged to different ethnic com-munities. The main plot of the dra-ma is initiated when plans are made to construct a new water supply system in the community, but the community is not willing to accept this novelty.
‘I am looking forward to the Orchestra's concert for Rosh Hashanah. The fact that this idea, to perform concerts to celebrate new years of different traditions, was born and imple-mented here in Belgrade makes me a proud Belgrader. This is a city with many permeating tra-ditions’, said Mr Isak Asiel, Head Rabbi of Serbia, prior to the Jewish New Year’s concert.
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Belgrade’s Philharmonic Foundation implemented
We Understand Each Other project
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‘Europe is diversity. We want to preserve the wealth and the difference of characters, of tal-ents, of beliefs, of habits, of customs, of taste’, Walter Hallstein, first president of the Commis-sion of the European Economic Community (now the European Commission), Die Europäis-cheGemeinschaft, 1979.
Different customs are followed by different calendars and diverse heritage. Yet, music universally expresses everyone’s hopes for joyous new beginning. Serbian Philharmonic’s Foundation cel-ebrated diversity of world’s great cultures and marked Jewish,
Islamic, Catholic, Orthodox and Chinese New Year’s Eve through musical concerts.
• Projectmobilisedmusicians,publicfiguresandethnicandreli-gious community leaders to address general public and in par-ticular people who enjoy classical music and consume and/or produce culture.
• Five concerts tomark Jewish,Muslim, Catholic,Orthodox andChinese New Year’s Eves, prepared jointly with the religious and civic leaders of all five traditions, and a production and broadcast of the five television shows and the ‘behind the scene’ documen-tary film, aired on national TV, are the main results of this project.
• Upon finalisation of the project the NewYears’ Concerts pro-gramme will become the permanent part of the Philharmonic’s repertoire.
More information available at:www.novegodine.bgf.rs
PROJECT PARTNER Belgrade's Philharmonics
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RESOURCE CENTRE Majdanpek implemented Theatre Against Prejudice project
Theatre play created by young people was used to address so-cial challenges and to promote the fight against discrimination and stereotypes, resulting in the involvement of grass root stake-holders and in reaching out to individuals from multiethnic com-munities in Serbia.
This project pursued combat against discrimina-tion and inequality through involvement of the young people in the theatre performances.
• Intotal,18youngpeopleundertooktrainingsin team building and introduction to human rights principles, creative writing and drama & arts techniques in working with human rights and discrimination.
• The‘NakedTruth’playwascreatedandplayedinSečanj,Zrenja-nin,Bečej,Bor,Kladovo,Majdanpek,Negotin,Priboj,PrijepoljeandSjenicawith1580audiences.Sixpressvisitswereorganisedtothetheatre performances and six TV stations reported on theatre play.
• Twovideoclips-theatreplayadvertisementwereproducedandaired at six local TV stations. One DVD - Making of the Naked Truth - Puttin’ on the Ritz (including theatre play) was produced and aired at four local TV stations.
• PartnershiphasbeenestablishedwithfourgrassrootsNGOsandfive local Youth offices and also 10 cultural centres and theatres in 10 localities where the play was performed.
More information available at:www.resurscentar.rs
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‘During the project we have built capacities of three groups of young people from Bečej, Prijepolje and Majdanpek to develop cre-ative form of art in response to local problems and issues among young people. These groups will continue work-ing on new theatre plays and other forms of engagement to raise awareness of local problems and issues of Ser-bian society’, states the proj-ect’s final report.
‘Plenum Krleža includes a critical read-ing of the selected set of essays written by Krleža: one set from the epoch of his confrontation with the Communist Party’s concept of culture (1926-1952), and the other written during his inte-gration into the mainstream cultural nomenclature (1952-1981). Re-reading Krleža today leads to the new under-standing of the old polemics, and cre-ates the space for the new politics of solidarity and freedom. CZKD project team addresses the issue of self-cen-sorship and lack of intellectual free-dom in a time when art and culture are said to operate free from party/state interventions with this re-visit into the past times.‘
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Centre for Cultural Decontamination implemented New Politics of Solidarity through Cultural and Knowledge Production project
This project aimed at moving up solidarity in culture and art intro-ducing agents of social changes through new politics of equality and solidarity in diversity.
The main activities included preparation and carrying out of several cultural events:
• Knowledgeproductionandcommunicationeventtitled‘PlenumKrleža – Transition of Art’, which attracted attention of 100 audi-ences;
• Theatreplaytitled‘Newborn’byJetonNeziraj,whichwasseenby65 people;
• Theatreeventtitled‘TriptoRussia’basedontheoriginaltextbyMiroslav Krleža, which was seen by 500 audiences;
• RomaArtFestival titled‘Socialcohesion,casestudy:cultureasa symptom of ex/in-clusion of Roma people in new states and societies’ at which 70 people took part;
• Projectalsoworkedontheproductionofresearch,analysisanda documentary film on Miroslav Krleža and presented a play ‘Yue Medlin Yue’ written and directed by Jeton Neziraj.
More information available at: www.czkd.org
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PROJECT PARTNERQendra e ArteveVizuele Multimedia
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‘Theatre performance ‘Yue Medelin Yue’, directed by Blerta Rrustemi and written by Jeton Neziraj demonstrates how culture can participate in the process of re-politicization. In the centre of this tragicomedy of absurd is a Roma family, forcefully expelled from Germany to Kosovo. Once in the new reality, this family fac-es challenges of the new born state. Medelin, the daughter acci-
dentally falls through a hole in the ground carelessly left opened by a construction company and is seriously hurt. While she is struggling for her life in the hospital, her father, pursues justice, facing bureaucrats, businessmen, policemen and embassy sstaff. This is a political drama about the chaotic post-war Kosovo but, before all, it is a drama about unwanted Roma in Europe.’
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BAZAART implemented
Intercultural Drama Education and Learning project
Project worked on involving schoolteachers and drama pedagogues in intercultural learning, including also young people in the creative drama process.
• 147 school teachers and drama pedagogues from Belgrade,Smederevo, Zrenjanin and Niš were trained in intercultural learn-ing through a creative drama process.
• 88youngpeoplefromSmederevo,Zrenjanin,BelgradeandNišbe-came involved in drama education through a creative process.
• Twopublications,‘GuidethroughaCreativeDramaProcess’and‘Manual for Intercultural Learning through Drama’, have been produced, promoting intercultural learning in education, and presented at 9 local events. Furthermore, a research paper ti-tled ‘Analysis of the state and need for intercultural learning in 4townsinSerbia’,includingtherecommendationsforprogramdevelopment of drama education for intercultural learning has been produced.
•6theatreplays(‘TalesfromtheSquareTown’,‘Don’tYouKnowWhoMy Dad Is?’, ‘The Likers’, ‘Served’, ‘Stop’ and ‘One – Everyone’) have been created by programme participants and performed on 21 occasions, attracting over 6,000 audiences. The ‘Tales from the Square Town’ won multiple awards at the DADRAS theatre festival in Subotica.
•Fourdebates,titled‘Howtoempoweryoungpeopletoacceptdiver-sity through creative drama process’, ‘Why are town authorities indif-ferent to youth issues in Niš?’, ‘Potentials of creative drama process for working on multicultural and intercultural collaboration’ and ‘Drama art for the education of young people for active life in a plural society’ were held, with 300 participants taking part.
More information available at: www.bazaart.org.rs
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Relais D’ouverture et d’Echanges Culturels et Linguistique, The Fortress Theatre Festival, Creative Upbringing and Multicultural Cooperation Centre, Centre for Development of Civil Resources, and
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Mobile Youth Alternative Theatre Smederevo, Regional Society for Foreign Languages and Literature Zrenjanin
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Adult Education Society implemented
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The project aimed at changing the image of the elderly in Serbia in order to reduce the existing discrimination. It worked in the cities of Belgrade, Novi Sad, Užice, Leskovac and Bor, striving to im-prove the attitude towards the elderly in the Serbian society.
The central activity of the project was the photo exhibition arranged from the photos received through a public call.
Almost 350 photos depicting active aging were received as a response to the contest. The best 30 photos were shortlisted and pre-pared for the exhibition which has moved from Novi Sad, to Užice, Leskovac, Bor and Belgrade. Organisation of the photo exhibi-tion attracted the attention of 6,000 citizens and provoked them to think about their prejudices toward ag-ing. Photos presented elderly as active citizens and a valuable part of society, thus improving the general public attitude to-
PROJECT PARTNERInstitute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association
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wards them. More than 1,100 visitors evaluated the exhibition and voted for the best photos so the best three were awarded at the final conference. The best photos were also part of the extensive media campaign that contributed to high visibility of project results, promoting the positive attitude towards the el-derly in the Serbian society.
Besides promoting active aging to the general public, the exhibitions also served as a place for gathering of the social partners as local au-thorities took part in promoting exhibitions. 25 events, including workshops, seminars, in-tergenerational activities, at which 500 people took part further promoted active aging and intergenerational dialog.
The book ‘Ideas for an enjoyable and active old age: Examples of good practice’ is another project result, which was, once published, distributed to a variety of stakeholders and organisations interested in working with el-derly in Serbia and Europe. The exhibition will continue its life; as the selection of photos de-picting active aging will be presented in Volk-shochschulen across Germany.
More information available at: http://zlatnodoba.webs.com/
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GROUP 484 implemented
INCLUDE - INterCulturalism through LiteratUre and DialoguE project
This project worked in Bel-grade, Užice, Vladičin Han,Kragujevac and Novi Pazar, promoting regional cultural diversity. It targeted teach-ers and cultural workers, youth leaders and young people of different ethnic, cultural and social back-ground to promote inter-cultural dialogue through literature.
• In total, 129 young peo-ple were trained at semi-nars and social marketing workshops, in method-ology of working with youth in readers clubs, which lead to creation of local campaigns, that all aimed at promoting cul-tural diversity. Local cam-paigns held in Belgrade, Vladičin Han, Užice,Kragujevac and Novi Pazar attracted 2,500 participants and support-ers and were followed by the line of round tables at same localities, where inclusion of programmes promoting cultural diver-sity into the educational institutionswere discussedwith 86participants. Project diversified its methodology beyond the initial territorial scope and participated at local events in Zren-janin, Bela Crkva and Vranje.
• Trainingmaterialoninterculturaleducationthroughliteraturepresented in the ‘Handbook on Intercultural Education through Literature’publicationisnowusedby45teachersandcultural
workers, who learnt how to use the tools for the promotion of intercultural dialogue through literature in their work.
• Quality texts by authors from the region had been gatheredand presented in a Promo catalogue of the Regional festival of contemporary writers from Western Balkans titled ‘On the Half-way’, while three editions of the ‘Textura’ magazine for literature in school and 2 editions of the ‘Small box’ books were prepared
and published, and remain available to young people in Serbia.
•Projecttookpartinseveralliterary festivals (Regional festival of contemporary writers from Western Bal-kans ‘On the Halfway’, One Writer Festival – Miroslav Krleža, Festival ‘Borina ka-pija (Bora’s Gate)’ in Vran-je, promoting its work to the wider audience.
•Policy paper containingrecommendations for im-provement of educational and cultural policies has been prepared, discussed and finalized at the re-gional conference ‘Art as a Mediator’, that took place at the end of the project and included participa-tion of 75 people.
As a result of this project, around 12,000 citizens be-came more aware that re-gional cultural diversity is richness of a community and a part of European iden-
tity, and 107 local actors, 30 national and 15 regional stakeholders in the field of culture and education accepted the importance of introducing the programmes for the promotion of regional cul-tural diversity in the institutions as a part of formal and informal education.
More information available at: www.grupa484.org.rs
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Intercultural association of academicians LINE IN, Austria
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Fund B92 implemented Free Zone Jr. in Primary Schools and the Region project
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This project worked to build the ca-pacity of primary school teachers to promote tolerance and activism amongst their pupils and encour-age intercultural dialogue and understanding of cultural diver-sity amongst youth from the coun-tries of former Yugoslavia. • Projectprovidedaninnovative
educational set – a DVD compi-lation of 23 international docu-mentary films selected for the use in Civic Education course in upper grades of primary school and accompanying manual for primary school teachers, consisting of conceptualized work-shops and working materials. Educational sets were distributed to 667 primary school teachers, trained to use documentary film as an additional teaching tool while teaching Civic Education through a one-day seminar.
• Projectprovided intensivetrainingto15highschoolstudentsfrom 6 countries in the region, selected amongst 157 applicants, who took part in the Regional Documentary Workshop pro-gramme. 119 civil society organisations from the regional coun-tries took part in the promotion of the open call for the Regional Documentary Workshop, and a special webpage, FB profile, in-ternet, TV and a radio ads were made at attract applications.
•The15students learnedhowtomakedocumentaryfilmsandusetheir creative capacity to influence their local communities, through
a 3-week-long workshop, and while doing so made their own films. Addi-tional funds were secured to produce four documentary films that were se-lected as winners of the Documentary Workshop.
As a result of this project, primary school pupils, as well as their teach-ers, have greater understanding of tolerance and respect for cultural diversity, promising less aggression and discrimination based on eth-nical or other differences. Thus, a group of high school students devel-
oped their social awareness realising in depth that cultural diversity is an important value of contemporary societies.
More information available at: www.freezonebelgrade.org
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Association for Development of Civic and Democratic Education, (Serbia) Fade In – Incredibly Good Institution (Croatia), and
PROJECT ASSOCIATE B92 Broadcasting Company
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Association OPEN CLUB implemented Balkan Youth Forum for Tolerance project
This project worked on increasing knowledge about social inequali-ties, anti-discrimination, tolerance and intercultural relations among young people in south Serbia, fostering also regional coop-eration of the youth from the Balkans.
• Theprojecthastargeted394highschoolpupils,40ofwhichweretrained to act as peer educators and supervised in holding work-shopsfor354oftheirpeers.Asaresultofthisactivity,apublicationtitled ‘Manual for peer educators’ has been produced.
• Peereducators,youngstudentsandprojectstaffworkedtogether
on the organisation of several public events, including a debate ‘Gay parade should be held in 2012’ held in Niš, and 7 forum theatre playstitled‘Odbačena’(Rejected),‘Šmizlaiseljančica’(Aprigandapig), ‘Brzi Gonzales’ (Speedy Gonzales), ‘Nisam kriv’ (Not guilty), ‘Reci NE nasilju’ (Say NO to violence), and ‘Discotheque 16’ that were held in Bela Palanka, Niš, Aleksinac, Grdelica, Svrljig, Knjaževac and Prokuplje, attracting over 330 audiences and over 15 local media.
• ACallforthephotosandshortmoviesdepictingintoleranceanddiscrimination attracted interest over 375 young people from the region. Call has also been publicized at the regional MTV station. Products created by the young people were presented at a region-al conference titled ‘BALKOM – Balkan Youth Conference for Tol-erance’whichattractedover85participants,andamobilephotoexhibition set within the project was on display in Niš, Aleksinac, Grdelica, Knjaževac, Svrljig, Bela Palanka and Prokuplje, attracting over 600 viewers. Three short films and three photos were awarded as the best received. This segment of the project has been widely coveredinprinted,electronicandsocialmedia,withover40arti-cles published. 10 civil society organisations from Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Serbia helped promote the Call regionally.
As a result of this project level of tolerance and understanding for the differences isnowincreased in8schools;creativedramaprocess ispopularized amongst young people.
More information available at:http://www.oknis.org.rs/balfom/
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PROJECT PARTNERAssociation for Development of Creativity, and
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High School Grdelica, Technical School Knjaževac, Agricultural School ‘Radoš Jovanović Selja’, High school ‘Niketa Remezijanski’, High School ‘Dušan Trivunac Dragoš’, Agricultural School‘Šumatovac’,HighSchool of Chemistry and Food Technology, Gymnasium ‘Stevan Sremac’
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Centre for Democracy Foundation implemented
Let’s Stop Age Discrimination and Endorse Active Ageing project
This project aimed at overcoming discrimination of elderly in Ser-bia. It promoted the concept of active aging and the volunteerism amongst senior citizens, pursuing the support by the employers for the experience, knowledge and potential of elderly workers.
• Projectorganisedacampaignaimingatfightingagediscrimi-nation titled ‘Strength of Experience’, during which direct street actions were organised in Belgrade, Niš and Kragujevac, a video film also produced and two press conferences held. At later stage, the campaign extended with billboards at the busses, wall boards, newspapers advertisement, and banners on several web sites.
• Also,projectworkedonaresearchtitled‘Olderworkers’,whichanalysed the official data and institutional position and regu-lations concerning working people of 50 years and older; the media content on age discrimination in employment and work-
place, and which included a number of in-depth interviews and 10 focus groups with fired workers and victims of age discrimina-tion.
• Acallfortraineeshasbeenheld,with97receivedapplicationsintotal. Following the selection process, 32 trainees, all redundant older workers were selected and undertook training in active job search. Several workshops were also held for around 100 participants, including the one titled ‘Active in the third age’ for the senior citizens and also ‘Intergenerational Dialogue’ where senior generation participants took part equally to the younger generation.
More information available at: www.centaronline.org
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ePROJECT PARTNERNGO ‘Snaga prijateljstva’ – Amity, and
PROJECT ASSOCIATES
Serbian Association of Employers and Municipality of Zvezdara
PROJECT RESULTS
‘The action ‘Let’s Stop Age Discrimination and Endorse Active Ageing’ built social cohesion through reaffirming the social capital that older persons possess and their capacities as an important asset for the development in Serbia. It generated public support, for older people and for fighting age discrimination, through sensitization of citizens for the issue of ageism and for the concept of active ageing and through reducing stereotypes and prejudices related to age. It also raised awareness of em-ployers that experience, knowledge and potential of old-er workers are beneficial for productivity and success of their companies but also of older unemployed workers, as they learned how to convince prospective employers that their long-year experience could be advantageous and beneficial for business. We managed to motivate the pensioners for active ageing through promoting volun-teering and other forms of active living’, is stated in the project’s final report.
18 Results of Awarded Projectswww.civilnodrustvo.rs
Ecumenical Humanitarian Organisation implemented
Enhancing Social Cohesion by Developing Non-discriminative Policy for Street Children project
Project worked to increase public debate on the situation of street children through development of non-discriminative policy for this target group.
• Projectundertookaresearchonthesituationofthestreetchil-dren and presented it in the publication titled ‘About children who live and/or work on streets of Novi Sad‘.
• Fourpubliceventswereorganised,includingthreepressconfer-ences, two round tables and a premiere of the documentary ‘See the World With My Eyes’.
• Individual and group meetings were conducted with repre-sentatives of NGOs, state institutions, local government, schools and media. The main goal was to make street children issue as mainstream topic. Joined Initiative to Recognize Street children asregularbeneficiariesofsocialcareserviceswassignedby43stakeholders. Initiative led to writing and adopting of the Inter-sectorial Protocol for health care among Welfare Centre Novi Sad, Health Care Centre Novi Sad and Shelter for Street Children. This Protocol enables improved access to health care services for minors living and working in the street.
• Intotal81childrenwereapproachedduringtheresearchand26people trained during the project.
Main findings of the research include that street working leads to deprivation and poor socialisation and that the social protection sys-tem has no measures to disrupt the generational patterns of poverty. Health sector services are not sufficiently accessible, and parents also do not understand the need for preventive medical care. Around 90% children have experienced violence during their work on the street which is a major issue.
More information available at: www.decaulice.rs and www.ehons.org
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PROJECT PARTNER University of Novi Sad, and
PROJECT ASSOCIATE
Fund for the Development of the Non-profit Sector of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (prior to its transformation)
PROJECT RESULTS
19Results of Awarded Projects www.civilnodrustvo.rs
Housing Centre implemented
Support to Civil Society project
This project contributed to social cohesion by undertaking research, advocacy, awareness raising and policy making on homelessness.
• TheprojectworkedonaresearchonhomelessnessinSerbia.Theresearch aimed at defining the profile of the persons experienc-ing homelessness in Serbia, identifying the structural reasons of homelessness in Serbia, mapping the paths to homelessness and detecting the primary needs of homeless people in Serbia.
• Intotal221questionnaireswith173personsaccommodatedinthe
shelters for adults and older people in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Niš; 25 persons living rough (on the streets, in building entrances, pas-sages, in railway wagons, trams or other highly inadequate spaces) and 23 persons living in the informal, substandard settlements of Bellville and Ledine that are inhabited mainly by the Roma popula-tionwerecarriedout,aswellas4focusgroupswiththebeneficiar-ies of the shelters. Findings were also made on the basis of the 16 interviews with practitioners woking in the social protection sys-tem (shelters for adults and older people, Centres for Social Work, Social Welfare Institute).
• TheresearchidentifiedstructuralcausesofhomelessnessinSer-bia and its specifics. Its findings were presented to public at four press conferences and also at the one-day conference, where 65 representativesof41institutionsparticipatedandatwhichtheformation of the National Task Force for Reduction of Homeless-ness has been initiated.
More information available at: www.housingcenter.org.rs
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rePROJECT PARTNERDeveloping Initiatives for Support in the Community, UK, and
PROJECT ASSOCIATE
Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Unit
PROJECT RESULTS
Some of the identified structural causes of homeless-ness in Serbia are:
• Unavailability of flats atmarket rates, insufficientcapacity of social housing, and the absence of social measures in housing (housing allowances, etc.);
• Thegrowthofstructuralunemploymentandpov-erty;
• Lowcoveragewithsocialservices.Facedwithrap-idly increasing needs the social protection does not provide a satisfactory response;
• Insufficientcapacityofthesocialandhealthcare;• Lackofsupportforthecontinuationoflifeandre-
integration into the community upon release from residential institutions such as psychiatric hospitals and prisons, and homes for children without pa-rental care in Serbia, which puts the people with this experience into a special risk of homelessness;
• Lackofprogramstostrengthenthereintegrationof homeless people;
• The complete disregard of the prevention ofhomelessness and possible resources of support.
20 Results of Awarded Projectswww.civilnodrustvo.rs
Praxis implemented
European Good Practices - Advocacy Tool in Serbia project
Drawing attention to the problems of legally invisible persons and residents of in-formal settlements in Serbia
This project aimed at finding systemic solu-tions for the problems of civil registration and forced evictions, affecting the Roma residing in informal settlements in Serbia.
• Within the project, Serbian and Euro-pean experts analysed the problems of legally invisible persons and residents of informal settlements in Serbia and drafted recommendations for improve-ment of legal framework in respect to the right to birth registration and the
right to housing in the publication titled ‘Report on the Expert De-bate: European Good Practices-Advocacy Tool in Serbia‘.
• Oneexpertdebate,onepressconferenceinBelgradeandthreeround tables in Novi Sad, Kraljevo and Niš were organised with 220 participants attending.
• Twodocumentaryfilms titled‘Here IAm-Legally Invisible’ and‘Here I Am-Forced Evictions’ and one FB page were developed, with 1,056 FB followers and 195,000 TV viewers. The film ‘Here I Am’ won the third place at Supetar Super Film Festival in Croa-tia,takingplacefrom10until14July2012.Thefestivalselectionincluded a number of documentaries from Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Great Britain, the Czech Republic and Croatia. After the screenings, the au-dience exchanged impressions with the authors and voted for their favourites.
Extensive Praxis advocacy efforts, including the activities of this pro-ject, triggered Ombudsperson’s initiative for putting the Amend-ments to the Law on Non-Contentious Proceedings before the Parliament, with an aim to simplify the procedure for subsequent birth registration. In addition, within the project period Directorate for Human Rights has organised consultations with the residents of informal settlement before their eviction, which is an international standard that has never been a practice in Serbia before.
More information available at: www.praxis.org.rs
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PROJECT PARTNER
Regional Centre for Minorities, Centre for New Communication Dokukino, Heinrich BöllStiftung, and
PROJECT ASSOCIATE
Centre for Advanced Legal Studies
PROJECT RESULTS
21Results of Awarded Projects www.civilnodrustvo.rs
Educational Centre Leskovac implemented Equal Opportunity project
Employers have the opportunity to claim benefits when employing people with disabilities in Serbia, in the form of co-financing of the workplace adaptation costs and/or salary subsidies. However, they are often discouraged by poor pre-sentation of possibilities offered by the Law, complicated administra-tive procedures and prejudices on capability of people with disability.
This project worked on promotion of full and ef-fective participation and inclusion in society of people with disabilities. It targeted employers, media, CSOs, SMEs and employment agencies to the benefit of people with disabilities.
• More than 250 companies received informa-tion on benefits of employment of people with disability at 20 trainings held.
• Intotal,fournewcompaniesforprofessionalrehabilitation of people with disabilities wereestablished,employing42employees.
• As a part of the accessibility campaign a TVspotwasproduced,andbroadcastedon24TVstations.
• Android and Facebook applications for theaccessibility mapping of public places were developed; and through the assistance of
112 mappers 5,000 public spots on whole territory of Serbia were marked. This application has been awarded the best technical solu-tion award in connecting citizens and government call for innova-tion administered by the Directorate for Digital Agenda within the Ministry of Culture, Media and Informatics Society. The application has also been presented the International Stakeholders Conference of Danube Region Strategy in Vienna, and Romania; Bulgarian and Croatian portals for Android applications are considering its use.
More information available at: http://www.pristupacnost.info
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cces
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lity PROJECT PARTNERS
Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund, Deutschland and Centre Living Upright, and
PROJECT ASSOCIATES
Serbian Association of Employers (Novi Sad branch), Culture Syndicate of Serbia, Association for Accessibility Audit in Serbia
PROJECT RESULTS
22 Results of Awarded Projectswww.civilnodrustvo.rs
Committee for Human Rights in Niš implemented
People Crossroads project
This project aimed at combating discriminative practice against people with disabilities by removing physical and mental barriers within local institutions and service providers.
The Coalition for Accessibility was formed, comprised of 9 CSOs and 20 representatives of Coalition member organisations prepared the plan and the strategy of the public advocacy for the removal of ar-chitectonic barriers in the City of Niš for the period 2012 – 2015. The
advocacy effort lead to the local parliament allocating 30,000 EUR in the2012citybudgetforbarriersremovalatandinside4educationalinstitutions in Niš.
Some of the direct project results include:
• 30representativesofCoalitionmemberorganisationstookpartintwo 2-day capacity building trainings,
• 162peoplewithdisabilitiesreceivedfreelegalaid,
•Six complaints have been filed tothe Commissioner for Equality for determination of discrimination on the side of the City of Niš.
•Twopublicdebateswereorganisedwith 45 representatives of vari-ous local government institutions, members of the City Assembly and organisations of persons with dis-abilities,
•40cityofficialsundertookspeciallydesigned course on EU accessibility standards,
•ResearchontheenforcementoftheLaw on Prevention of Discrimination of Individuals with Physical Disabili-ties was organised involving partici-pation of 103 local institutions,
•15orientationsessionswereorganisedinCoalitionorganisationsto disseminate information about project activities and promote free legal aid service,
• Campaignwas launchedwith two specialTV programs aired, 3press and 1 public event held and 12 participations in the local TV programs taking place.
More information available at: www.chrin.org.rs
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ctio
n PROJECT PARTNER Out of Circle Belgrade, and
PROJECT ASSOCIATE
Centre for Independent Living of People with Disabilities from Niš
PROJECT RESULTS
23Results of Awarded Projects www.civilnodrustvo.rs
Novi Sad Humanitarian Centre implemented
All Different, All Equal project
This project worked on creation of an inclusive culture, policy, and practice in primary schools in Vojvodina, thus enhancing equal par-ticipation of all children in education, regardless of their gender, dis-ability, social or ethnic background.
• Several trainings for teacherswereheld, including‘Index forinclusion’, ‘Forming individual educational plan (IOP) for gifted students’, ‘Approach and support for children with difficulties in learning caused by dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia and hy-peractivity’, ‘Assumptions of a successful class’, ‘Strategies for working with children with special needs’, ‘The role of peda-gogical assistant in class’, ‘My child is special, too’, at which over 209schoolstafffromApatin,NoviSadandBečejparticipated.Index for Inclusion in schools has been promoted amongst ad-ditional 77 school staff members.
• Over100parentsparticipatedatworkshopsoninclusionandpa-rental capacities and over 150 students took part in several ac-tivities, including ‘Development of cooperation among students’ workshop, ‘Communication skills’ workshop for peer educators, ‘Playing through inclusion’ workshops for younger children. ‘Persons with disabilities and inclusion workshop that targeted both students peer educators and parents. They learned what disability is and how to become sensitive and informed about this issue.
• Inclusivedevelopmentplans for threeprimary schools inNoviSad,BečejandApatinweredrafted,discussedatschoolboardsand approved. Publication titled ‘All different, all equal: Creat-ing inclusive culture, policy and practice in schools’ (published in Serbian, Hungarian, and English) is now used by the primary schools in Vojvodina as a tool for self-evaluation and develop-ment of the inclusive culture, policy and practice in their envi-ronment.
• ForumTheatreplay‘Alldifferent,allequal’hasbeendevelopeddur-ingthelifeoftheprojectandperformedinfrontof485audiences.
‘The project has led to a number of important changes. These chang-es were most noticeable in the new knowledge, attitudes and, what is the most important, in numerous activities through which the benefi-ciaries learned in practice how to accept diversity and reduce of dis-crimination in the schools and in the society’, is stated in the projects external evaluation.
More information available at: www.nshc.org.rs
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t div
ersi
ty?PROJECT PARTNERS
Primary School ‘Samu Mihalj’, BečejandPrimarySchool‘ŽarkoZrenjanin’, Apatin, and
PROJECT ASSOCIATES
Secretariat for Education, Administration and National Communities of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina
PROJECT RESULTS
INCLUSIVE SCHOOLS The action created the model of empowerment of pu-pils, their parents, and the school staff that facilitates the creation of inclusive culture, policy and practice in schools.
24 Results of Awarded Projectswww.civilnodrustvo.rs
Centre for Quality Education implemented
Clubs for Children and Youth project
This project worked on establishment of mechanisms for provision of support to children and young from marginalized groups, strengthening the capacities of grassroots civil society organisations to provide innovative community based services for children, in an inclusive environment.
• Intotal,212childrenparticipatedintheworkoftheclubs,and17staff members received training in the implementation of this in-novative community based social service.
• Severaltrainingactivitiestookplaceincludingmentoring,coach-ing and seminars at which 22 participants took part.
• Themanual titled‘Clubas inclusive service–oneplace, infinitenumber of possibilities’ has been produced, to serve as guidance to future founders of the similar service.
• Throughthesupportoftheproject,oneoftheclubbeneficiariespublished her poetry book titled ‘Sun rays’ and project organised a literary event in School for pupils with impaired sight ‘Veljko Ramadanović’ in Belgrade.
• Projectworkedonpartnershipbuildingbetweenthestateinstitu-tions and CSOs, which resulted in several protocols, contract and partnerships, including: Protocol on cooperation between Society for Support of Mentally Challenged Persons of Kragujevac, School for elementary and secondary education ‘Vukašin Marković’ from Kragujevac and Red Cross in Kragujevac; Protocol on coopera-
tion between the Association for Persons with Disabilities of the Municipality of Ivanjica and Youth Office in Ivanjica; Contract between the Association for Persons with Disabilities of the Mu-nicipality of Ivanjica and local government in Ivanjica; Partnership between the Centre for Quality Education and Fond for Active Citi-zenship from Podgorica and many others.
More information available at:www.cko.org.rs
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PROJECT PARTNERS
Society for Support of Mentally Challenged Persons from Kragujevac, Association for People with Disabilities of the Municipality of Ivanjica, Creative Educational Centre for People with Developmental Disabilities from Belgrade, and
PROJECT ASSOCIATES
School for primary and secondary education ‘Vukašin Marković‘, OKC KG Youth Sector, Primary school ‘Kirilo Savić’ Ivanjica, Local Office for the Youth of the Municipality of Ivanjica, Sixth Belgrade Gymnasium
PROJECT RESULTS
‘Children and youth from marginalized groups that spent their time in clubs increased and improved their social interaction, brought quality to their leisure time, and ex-periences continuity of learning. This lead to adoption of new skills skills, knowledge and views’, is stated in the project’s final report.
25Results of Awarded Projects www.civilnodrustvo.rs
Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights implemented
Combating Discrimination on All Grounds in Serbian Education System project
Roma are clearly seen as the most discriminat-ed group. The LGBT population and the people with disabilities are seen as the second most discriminated group.
This project undertook an effort to mainstream antidiscrimination policy in the sphere of edu-cation sector by taking legal action, educating, raising awareness level and contributing to crea-tion of regulatory framework.
• Legal aid in cases of discrimination in theeducational system has been provided to 15 beneficiaries, and based on this practice, comments were provided on the Draft on Bylaw on Discrimination in the Serbian edu-cational system.
• Seminars for 109 educational advisors andeducational inspectors on prevention of dis-crimination in the educational system took place, and 838 third grade high school stu-dents attended seminars on discrimination in the educational system. Students attending seminars took part in the research on views of Serbian high school students on minority groups, violence, and discrimination.
• 30parentsattendedinformativesessionsforparents,ondiscrim-ination in educational system.
• Two manuals titled ‘Combating discrimination in educa-tional system – manual for educational inspectors and advi-sors’, and ‘Discrimination? Not in my school! One school for all – manual for high school students and parents’, had been developed.
• CooperationestablishedwithChildren’sCulturalCentreBelgradeand Commissioner on Equality Protection helped strengthen the impact of the project.
More information available at: www.yucom.org.rs
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nstr
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ing
antid
iscr
imin
atio
n po
licyPROJECT PARTNER
Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, and
PROJECT ASSOCIATES
Ministry of Education of the Government of Serbia and Republic of Serbia's Ombudsman Office
PROJECT RESULTS
High schools students stated that they would least want to have LGBT individ-uals for their friends (21%), followed by Albanians (19%) and Muslims (10 %), EurAktivSrbija reported.
26 Results of Awarded Projectswww.civilnodrustvo.rs
Centre for Regionalism implemented
Free Movement of People and Goods between Kosovo* and Serbia in the Context of Regional Cooperation project
This project strived to create more favourable climate for the devel-opment of regional cooperation in a field of transport of goods, people and capital between Serbia and Kosovo*.
• Research titled‘FreeMovementof People andGoodsbetweenKosovo* and Serbia in the Context of Regional Cooperation’ has been developed and published in Serbian, Albanian and English. Research included an assessment of grey market channels for goods exchange between Serbia and Kosovo* and has identified non-tariff barriers in trade in goods between Serbia and Kosovo*.
• PublicdiscussionsinBelgrade,NoviSad,PrištinaandKosovskaMitrovica where the results of the research were presented at-tracted more than 100 participants. The findings were also pre-sented to the EU officials in Brussels.
• In total12TVdocumentariesandmorethan15mediaarticleswere made on the topic of the project.
More information available at: http://www.centarzaregionalizam.org.rs/
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ple
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s PROJECT PARTNER KHCS Mother Theresa
PROJECT RESULTS
‘One of the achievements of this project is the fact that impact was made already during the process of realiza-tion, because one of the causes of trading in the grey zone between Serbia and Kosovo* was removed. Namely, Government of the Republic of Serbia issued a number of regulations in 2000 to regulate the trade of goods between Serbia and Kosovo*, among which some were completely contradictory. As a result, Kosovo* was deprived of free trade in accordance with CEFTA agreement. It was indeed treated as a single customs territory, but with an excep-tion in regard of the northern part of its territory, which is dominated by Serbian population. Hence, Government of Serbia issued a Regulation in 2005 which stipulated VAT ex-emption for citizens of North Kosovo in regard of crude oil derivatives, cars, mobile telephony and some other com-modities. During research, expert team of the Centre for Regionalism obtained insight in damage on the budget of
the Republic of Serbia, caused by this Regulation. Data had shown that unpaid VAT dues for crude oil derivatives during the period between 2008 and June 2011 had created a loss in amount of 90,542,812 EUR. Unpaid VAT for cars caused a loss in amount of 119,880,000 EUR, while unpaid VAT for mobile telephony created a loss in amount of 2,956,500 EUR. Upon receipt of this info, the Government of the Re-public of Serbia had suspended parts of this Regulation that was issued in 2005, which effectively reinstituted VAT to the citizens of North Kosovo in regard of crude oil de-rivatives, cars and mobile telephony. Such a strong impact on decision-makers already in early stages of realization of project’s tasks was a great encouragement and an in-disputable proof that EU Delegation’s financial support for the project ‘Free movement of people and goods between Kosovo* and Serbia in the context of regional cooperation’ was well deserved’, is stated in the research report.
27Results of Awarded Projects www.civilnodrustvo.rs
Association of Independent Electronic Media implemented
Crossing the Bridge of Diversity project
This project aimed at enhancing public knowledge on cultural diversity through broadcast of issue re-lated radio and TV programs.
• Twoworkshopsforjournalistsandcorrespondentsparticipating in the production of radio and televi-sion programs, on reporting on cultural diversity of ethnic minorities, were held and a mentorship has been provided to journalists of ANEM radio stations participating in the production of radio programs.
• Publications‘ResearchandRecommendations’and‘Guide on reporting on ethnic cultural diversity’ have been produced, to serve as a guide for pro-duction teams, in defining the ways in which the
programs on cultural minorities should/could be prepared.
• ProjectworkedontheproductionandbroadcastingofradioandTV series ‘Povezivanje’ on the topic – cultural diversity of ethnic minorities – and as a result, 20 programs depicting stories from
15 local communities promoting ethnic toler-ance and cultural diversitywereproduced. 41ANEM radio stations broadcasted the radio se-ries and 27 ANEM TV stations broadcasted the TV series, reaching out to the approximate audi-ence of 2 million of people.
• JelenaTerzin, journalist of RTVVK fromKi-kinda - ANEM member station - has won the third place among 179 received pro-ductions in TV and radio category at the PROFEST independent film festival, where 12 countries in the Danube Region com-peted. The journalist has been awarded for her radio program ‘Modzo Club from Senta’, recorded as part of ANEM radio series ‘Con-necting’. The radio programme features the stopy on the jazz-blues-rock club ‘Modzo’ in Senta, that has been gathering people of dif-ferent ethnic backgrounds for more than two decades. With this award, this journalist from ANEM members’ station has become the only awarded journalist from Serbia in the radio category.
More information available at: www.anem.org.rs
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PROJECT PARTNER Faculty of Political Sciences
PROJECT RESULTS
‘Radio and TV programs on this topic produced within this project turned to be a great success in terms of introducing a new media approach to this topic and possibility to contribute to promotion of tolerance and multicul-turalism in the society. That is why we decided to share experiences of the production team (working in the production of these programs) with all ANEM radio and TV stations and recommend them to use these programs as example of a good practice in media reporting on cultural diversity of ethnic minorities’, is reported by the project team.
28 Results of Awarded Projectswww.civilnodrustvo.rs
Partners for Democratic Change implemented
Partnership for Tolerance and Anti-Discrimination Protection in Serbia project
This project aimed at raising public understanding of discrimination and the role of the Commissioner for Protection of Equality (CPE).
1) Six trainings were held for over 102 representatives of local CSOs, self-governments, bar associations and judiciary on how to file petitions with the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality (CPE).
2) The Anti-Discrimination Handbook has been prepared to inform general public on anti-discriminatory practices in Serbia, but also to serve as a guide to professionals and practitioners in the field.
3) Promotional leaflets in Serbian and Albanian have been pro-duced and also the Anti-Discrimination and Mediation Outreach film.
4) SixMediationOutreachworkshopswereheldforover169repre-sentatives of local CSOs, local self-government and mediators.
All activities contributed to increased knowledge of training partici-pants on the CPE office and on how to write petitions. As a direct pro-ject result, there is an increase in the number of discrimination cases correctly referred by the civil society to the CPE. The project also led
to increased communication between civil society and the CPE with regards to preventing discrimination, and increased cooperation and communication between civil society and other stakeholders that are working on discrimination prevention.
More information available at:www.partners-serbia.org
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dis
crim
inat
ion PROJECT PARTNER
Alternative Dispute Resolution Centre, and
PROJECT ASSOCIATE
Republic of Serbia's Commissioner for Protection of Equality
PROJECT RESULTS
29Results of Awarded Projects www.civilnodrustvo.rs
Centre for Advanced Legal Studies implemented
Fighting Discrimination and Building a Culture of Tolerance through Dialogue, Legal Reform and Active Monitoring of Discriminatory Practice project
This project worked on the improvement of the legislation related to same-sex civil registration, legal status of trans-gender and trans-sexual persons and legal capacity of mentally disabled individuals.
• Three newmodel laws to fight discrimination have been de-veloped during the life of the project, including Model Law on registered same-sex relationships; Model Law on the recognition of legal consequences of sex reassignment and determining of trans-sexualism and Model Law on limitation and protection of individual rights and freedoms. Proposed legislative changes have been introduced before the line-ministries (human and minority rights and/or justice, social affairs, and European inte-gration) and also to the members of the Parliament belonging to all represented political parties, in a separately organised round-
table,atwhich40officialstookpart.Policypapersonregisteredsame-sex relationships, recognition of legal consequences of sex reassignment and determining of transsexualism and limitation and protection of individual rights and freedoms had been de-veloped to better present the justification for the model laws.
• A series of workshops in 10 regional centres throughout thecountry were held for the representatives of the leading local NGOs, titled ‘Public Forum - Discrimination in Serbia’. In total, 150 participants took part in these trainings, resulting in a formation of 10 rapid-intervention research units, consisted of around 100 NGO activists. Reports on discriminatory practice in Serbia and documentary show on discriminatory practice in Serbia have been produced, on the basis of the unit’s inputs.
• AsaresultoftheprojectaCoalitiontitled‘AccesstoJustice’hasbeen formed, with participation of eight NGOs from Serbia. NGO activists active in the RIRU units learned about various practical techniques suitable for collecting the evidence on discriminato-ry practice (collecting press reports, performing interviews with the representatives of minorities and with other citizens, talking with local officials, journalists and NGO’s activists, visiting the site where discriminatory act occurred, etc.); and are now able to write reports on the cases of discrimination, including a descrip-tion of the act of discrimination, background information on the probable causes of this act, detailed information on victims (age, sex, minority status, etc.), and on offenders.
More information available at: www.cups.rs
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PROJECT PARTNERS
The AIRE Centre, Regional Centre for Minorities, Association of Students with Disabilities, GAYTEN - Centre for Promotion of LGBTIQ Human Rights, LABRIS - Lesbian Human Rights Organisation, and
PROJECT ASSOCIATES
Praxis, Network of the Committees for Human Rights in Serbia
PROJECT RESULTS
31Results of Awarded Projects www.civilnodrustvo.rs
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32 Results of Awarded Projectswww.civilnodrustvo.rs
Treehouse implemented
Work, Order and Recycling project
This project worked in Kruševac, Ćićevac, Varva-rin and Trstenik to advance social and economic goals of waste management by increasing col-lection, the primary supply chain bottleneck of recycling in Serbia.
• Bymobilizing‘clusters’ofsimilarwastegen-erators, like cafes, copy shops and small retailers,‘Rad,Red iReciklaža’made iteco-nomical for recycling consolidators and public utility companies to collect recycla-ble waste from small businesses. As a result, Kruševac is among the first municipalities to collect glass packaging waste for recycling, selling the glass a private consolidator in southern Serbia. In total, 45 small business-es now recycle their packaging waste, and the number is growing.
• Threemunicipalitieshaveexpandedtheircommunalcollectionof recyclable materials with donations of recycling containers
providedby theDelegationof the EuropeanUnion to theRe-public of Serbia under a euro-for-euro cost share arrangement. In total, 240 containers have been donated through the project.
• Several long-termrecyclingpartnershipshavebeen facilitated,including one between the Kruševac Muscular Dystrophy Asso-ciation and EkoNet, a woman-owned electronics waste recycler inTrstenik;plusasimilaragreementwiththeRomaAssociationinTrstenik.Thetwoassociationsalsoservegenerator‘clusters.’
•Fifty individual collectors, mainly Roma, re-ceived training on prices and markets of re-cyclable materials and donations of uniforms and safety gear. Twelve of the most disad-vantaged, yet serious, collectors also received donations of carts. Today, Roma collectorscanbeseenaroundthecityintheir‘Rad,RediReciklaža’uniformsandarenowviewedmoreseriouslyandprofessionallybythecitizens.InfourmonthssinceJanuary1st,Romacollectorsmobilizedby‘Rad,RediReciklaža’havecollect-ed over 59 tons of recyclable materials.
•Over 12,000 citizens have been engagedin various community recycling initiatives. Through collection initiatives organised by ‘Rad, Red i Reciklaža’ citizens have recycledover 20 tons of paper and electronic waste, with more initiatives in the works.
More information available at:www.treehouse-serbia.org
‘We
are
not t
o th
row
aw
ay th
ose
thin
gs w
hich
can
ben
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ur n
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bor’
Clem
ent o
f Ale
xand
ria PROJECT PARTNERSMunicipalityĆićevacandNGOMoravskiOrašakfromTrstenik,and
PROJECT ASSOCIATES
BISITRecyclingCentre,BRDJALtd, DENI PET Ltd, M-PAK Ltd, Nikolo Ltd
PROJECT RESULTS
On Sunday, April 22, 2012 ‘Rad, Red and Reciklaža’ marked the Earth Day. The main street in Kruševac was closed so that children and their families could partici-pate in fun and interactive activities, learn more about recycling, and be entertained by an afternoon agenda that featured a recycling fashion show and dancers and sing-ers promoting environmental awareness.
33Results of Awarded Projects www.civilnodrustvo.rs
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mus
t figh
t aga
inst
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spiri
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scio
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bert
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This project worked on creating condi-tions for the increase of animal produc-tion performances through introduction of farm animal welfare standards in Serbia, cooperating with farmer’s associ-ations, Ministry of Agriculture and other stakeholders.
• 20 participants (veterinarians, engi-neers and technicians of agriculture andstudentsoffinalyearoftheFac-ulty of Veterinary Medicine) under-took trainings on poultry welfare as-sessment and pigs and cattle welfare assessment.
• PublicationonFarmAnimalWelfareinSerbiawasproduced.Forthe purposes of both national and local assessment of farm animal welfare 100 farm owners and farm animal producers in Serbia, and 250 of them in Sremska Mitrovica, were engaged. Their support to the cause of the action was instrumental to successfully.
• Assessmentofthefarmanimalwelfareatthenationalandlocallevel in Serbia was conducted through scheduled farm visits dur-
ing which the data, photos and video materials were collected. Methodology of the farm animal welfare assessment used dur-ing these farm visits, represents the good practice taken from the EU and adapted to situation in Serbia. Also, education bro-chure for farmers was developed and disseminated during the assessment.Thisbrochureexplainswhy farmanimalwelfare isimportant for farmers, the link between animal welfare and food quality and safety, the link between animal welfare and making
profit for farmers, and the need for animal welfare assessment as a way of assessing the high welfare standards achieved.
•ActionPlanforImplementingFarmAni-malWelfareStandardsinSremskaMitro-vica was developed having in mind the results of the local animal welfare assess-ment done in Sremska Mitrovica. This action plan provides recommendations on implementing high animal welfare standards at local level.
• Resultsoftheprojectwerepresentedatseveralpressconferencesandnationalandregionaleventswherethepapertitled‘ResultsofthenationalassessmentofthefarmanimalwelfareinSerbia’has been presented including the event organised to mark the AnimalWelfare Day. Leaflet for consumers focused on raisingawareness of consumers on why farm animal welfare is important for consumers has also been distributed at these events.
More information available at:www.orca.rs
PROJECT PARTNERMunicipality of Sremska Mitrovica, and
PROJECT ASSOCIATE
RoyalSocietyforthePreventionofCrueltytoAnimals,UK
PROJECT RESULTS
Organisation for Respect and Care of Animals implemented Farm Animal Welfare Standards in Serbia project
34 Results of Awarded Projectswww.civilnodrustvo.rs
Centre for Free Election and Democracy implemented Inclusion of Civil Society Organisations in Energy and Climate Policy Making at Local Level project
This project worked on the reduction of carbon intensity of Serbian economy. It particularly targeted carbon emissions in the territories ofVrbas andKula andworked inpartnershipwithCSOs and localauthorities on promotion of EU standards in energy and climate policy making.
• Fourworkshopsforrepresentativesof103representativesofcivilsociety organisations were held, with topics including relevant EU and national legislation in relation to energy, environment, competition and public participation, best available technolo-gies,advocacyand lobbyingandsocialandenvironmentalex-ternalities of the energy sector.
• SEAPelementswerepreparedforVrbasandKulawitheffectivepublic participation and draft of Energy Strategy of both Vrbas and Kula municipalities were developed. During this process a GuideforPublicParticipationinEnergyandClimatePolicy-mak-ing and the website www.tvojaenergija.org were developed. EU’smovementtitledCovenantofMayorshaswidelybeenusedas a good practice involving local and regional authorities, vol-untarily committing to increasing energy efficiency and use of renewable energy sources on their territories.
• Pressconferencetitled‘PresentationofPublicOpinionPoll:Prac-tiseofVrbasandKulaCitizensinHouseholdHeatingandTrans-portation’,roundtablewithexpertpublicandrepresentativesoflocalself-governmenttitled‘PresentationofPublicOpinionPoll:Practise ofVrbas and Kula Citizens in Household Heating andTransportation’,workshopwithrepresentativesofstateandlocalauthorities,CSOs,expertpublic,privatecompaniesandembas-siestitled‘PartnershipforEnergyEfficiency’androundtablewithstateandlocalauthorities,CSOs,expertpublic,andmediatitled‘ReductionofGreenhouseGasesEmissionsatLocalLevel’,were
organised within the project, gathering 118 participants.
• Severalstudieswereproduced,includingHouseholdsurveyinVrbas, done on a representative sample of 400 respondents and titled‘PracticeofVrbasCitizensinHouseholdHeatingandTrans-portation’;Householdsurvey inKula,doneonarepresentativesampleof400respondentsandnamed‘PracticeofKulaCitizensinHouseholdHeatingandTransportation’,andadditionalstud-iestitled‘TechnoEconomicAnalysesofHeatingsystem’,‘OptimalHeatingSurveyof PlanDistrictHeatingSystem’ and‘Pre-studyofAvailabilityandCostsofBiomassforDistrictHeatingSystem’which covered both Vrbas and Kula.
• InsertionindailyDnevnik(NoviSad)andbi-weeklyGlas(Vrbas)depicting the results of the project brought over estimated 32,000viewers.
More information available at: www.cesid.org
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rgy
save
s ou
r clim
ate
PROJECT PARTNERS
Municipality of Vrbas, MunicipalityofKula,Centrefor Ecology and Sustainable Development–CEKOR,and
PROJECT ASSOCIATES
RegionalDevelopmentAgencyofSrem,CentreforStrategicEconomicStudies‘Vojvodina-CESS’(transformedintoAgencyforEvenRegionalDevelopment),RegionalDevelopmentAgencyBačka
PROJECT RESULTS
35Results of Awarded Projects www.civilnodrustvo.rs
Nature Conservation Movement of Sremska Mitrovica implemented Supporting the Local Socio-economic Development through Eco-tourism in Protected Areas project
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ther
way
of t
ouris
m
WHAT IS ECO-TOURISM?The core of ecotourism is environmental sus-tainability and ensuring that the environmental impacts of any tourism products are minimized. In addition, it encourages proactive nature con-servation and the promotion of local cultural values, while at the same time developing the local economy and working towards the long term viability of the region.
The project aimed at promoting eco-tourism in protected areas in Vojvodina as a tool for local sustainable socio economic develop-ment.
• 33stakeholdersundertooktrainingonprotectedareamanage-ment and eco-tourism development, and 182 participants, from the civil society, local government, tourist organisations and pro-tected areas management took part at eight workshops on eco-tourism planning in protected areas.
• Publications titled ‘Guidelines for Integrated Management ofNatural Resources and Eco-tourismDevelopment in ProtectedAreas’, ‘Analysis of Current Situation Regarding Eco-tourismDevelopment inProtectedAreasandRecommendationfor Im-provement’ and ‘Action Plan for Eco-tourism Development inProtectedAreas’wereproducedandpresentedat theproject’sfinal conference, attended by 80 people.
• Asaresultoftheproject,anon-formalad-hoccoalition‘NetworkofProtectedAreas inVojvodina–ViaPanonica’, includingninemembers was formed.
More information available at: www.zasavica.org.rs
PROJECT PARTNER UnionofEcologistsUNECO
PROJECT RESULTS
‘Eco-tourists usually want to feel close to nature and local population that brought them to the destinations origi-nally. Should one destination seek to be attractive for such tourists, it has to protect its resources and also nur-ture integration into the local community. Usual belief is that the tourist operators are exclusively responsible for the protection of the environment and the preservation of local communities. However, an intervention of many other regional and national stakeholders is required too’, is explained at the project web-site http://sucis.zasavica.org.rs/ekoturizam.
36 Results of Awarded Projectswww.civilnodrustvo.rs
IKV Pax Christi implemented Novi Pazar: A Place to Meet project
Thisprojectworked inNoviPazar,TutinandSjenicapursuing em-ployability of young people and increasing the livelihood of the communities by making better use of the available human and natu-ral resources for sustainable socio-economic development, with a special focus on tourism.
• Project undertook several training events including a seminartitled‘Establishingpartnershipsforcross-sectorcooperation’for25participants; training in sixblocks in local tourismdevelop-mentwhichincludedastudy-visittoCroatiafor32youngpeoplewillingtoworktodevelopthetouristicofferofSandžak;trainingin conducting local surveys in remote villages and urban areas for 22 young researchers; and a seminar on youth and European networkingfor20representativesofyouthCSOs.
• Projectpromotedcitizensparticipationthroughasurveyonim-portant topics for local democracy, development and European integration and on the basis of the surveys done in the munici-
palitiesofNoviPazar,SjenicaandTutindraftedabrochuretitled‘Whatdo citizens thinkon local democracy, development andEuropeanintegration’.Almost1,000citizensgotinvolvedinthesurvey and answered on 15 questions related to local democ-racy, development and European integration. The survey also includedaquiz to test their knowledgeand learnmoreaboutthe European Union.
• In total, 16 representativesof local stakeholders tookpart inastudy-visit from Serbia to the Netherlands where they learned more on the cross-sector cooperation and three visits from lo-cal authorities from the Netherlands to Serbia in support of cross sector cooperation, too.
• Brochure/Guidetitled‘TourismDestinationsinSandžak(South-west Serbia)’ has been developed. It presents the region ofSandžak (Southwest Serbia) as an interesting destination fortourism and an opportunity for investments.
More information available at: www.ikvpaxchristi.nl
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PROJECT PARTNERSURBAN-IN,CityofNoviPazar,Municipality of Putten, Proni CentreforSocialEducation
PROJECT ASSOCIATES
SandžakEconomicDevelopment Agency, Tourist OrganisationofNoviPazar
PROJECT RESULTS
Over 3,000 people, including over 60 smaller and middle enterprises, five municipal and inter-municipal bodies as well as several CSOs, from all different ethnic and cultural groups in and beyond the region, were brought together to visit the ‘Mantijada Fair of local crafts, products and services’, organised within the project.
37Results of Awarded Projects www.civilnodrustvo.rs
‘The educational households arise when a successful house-hold decides to introduce innovations in their daily activities and open its doors for curious children and visitors of all ages, by offering different programs, based precisely on their daily activities. This kind of educational-tourist offer already exists in many European countries. South Banat household own-ers decided to follow the best practice example of Italy. As it was planned by project proposal, by the end of June 2012 five households are opened in South Banat. Due to efforts of project team members, project partners representatives, but above all, due to South Banat household owners, educational households are now in function’, is reported in the project report.
Leader+ Banatski Karlovac implemented Banat Educational Households project
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etin
gs, g
olde
n se
reni
ty, S
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of tr
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rgei
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This project worked in Alibunar, Kovin,BelaCrkvaandVršacaim-ing at promoting effective use of the wealth of natural, cul-tural and social resources that exist in South Banat re-gion.
• Quality Policy Document de-veloped within the project sets standardsfortheBanatEducationalHouseholds. Four modules of QualityPolicyWorkshopstoproduceadocumenttook place on topics such as concept, definition, meaning and importance of the quality policy document for household owners and the future establishers of educa-tional farms.
• Threeworkshopsonawarenessraisingadditionallypromotedthe concept and a three-day added value training strength-ened the target beneficiaries’ skills in running educationalhouseholds.Workshopsforhouseholdownersontopicssuchas Concept of Banat Educational Households, Educationalhouseholds’ safetyandpracticalexamplesofeventsandac-tivities taking place in households introduced participants in more detail into the process.
• In total, 35 household owners from South Banat on Danubeand their family members, including fruit and vegetable pro-ducers, members of associations, representatives of tourism or-ganisations attended training on business plan writing, which resulted in seventeen project proposals developed with 151 jobopportunitiescreated,outofwhichat least2/3 (100)areadequate for hiring young people.
• Methodological guidelines were pro-ducedtoofferguidanceintothecrea-
tion of a network of educational farms in the municipalities of Alibunar, Kovin, Bela Crkva andVršac.
• Pioneering five educationalhouseholds were established
within the project and a pilot visit with media coverage promoted
theirworkintheregion.BanatEduca-tionalHouseholdsMapproduceddepicts
the details of those households. One of fiveestablished educational households promotes
the Slovak culture, promoting thereby preser-vation of minority culture.
• Project brought over several institutions in sup-port of the educational households creation. Protocol
onCooperationbetweenLeader+BKandelementaryschool’Dušan Jerković’, elementary school ’Miloš Crnjanski’, TouristOrganisationoftheKovinMunicipality,TouristOrganisationofBelaCrkvaMunicipalityandJPTuristAlibunarisasolidbaseforjoint work and meaningful action.
More information available at: www.leader.org.rs
PROJECT PARTNERSMunicipality of Alibunar, EurolandBanatAssociation,AlimosandAgroznanje,and
PROJECT ASSOCIATE
AssociationofWomen‘Janošičanka’
PROJECT RESULTS
SustainableRural Touris
Economic sustainability
Socio-cultural sustainability
Environmental sustainability
38 Results of Awarded Projectswww.civilnodrustvo.rs
Civic Initiatives implemented Public Participation through Local Partnerships project
This project contributed to the resolution of local socioeconomic problems through cross-sectoral partnership with a goal to pro-mote and initiate public participation in debating and tackling socio-economic issues.
• Intotal,68CSOrepresentativesweretargetedthroughthesup-port to facilitation of the project, which included helping local CSOstoagreeonallelementsoftheprogram,conflictresolu-tion, methods of external communication and other topics.Even more of that, 99 got involved in consultation on all ele-ments of the program, which included topics such as helping lo-calCSOstoidentifyallrelevantstakeholders,tochoosetherightstructure,tothinkofallissuesthatcanaffectthemainproblemthey identifiedandprioritized.Three roundsoffieldconsulta-tion visits in five towns were used to talk about the progress,
problems, needs, potential side events. In result, the local cam-paignsthataddressedtheidentifiedproblemsbroughtover130individuals.
• ‘Partnership Building for Local Socio-economic Development’trainingforCSOs,businessandlocalself-governmentrepresent-ativeswereheldinUžice,Priboj,Leskovac,PirotandBabušnica,with 99 stakeholders taking part.
•Publication titled ‘Feasibility Study for FormingLocal Partnership’ containing description of localpartnerships (LP) throughout theEuropeanUnion(Partnership Principle in the EU Cohesion Policy,Funding Opportunities for Local Partnerships, Ex-amples of Local Partnerships), historical aspect of LPs (Evolutionof Citizens’ Inclusion inDecisionMakingonPublicAffairsinSerbia)andotherrelat-ed topics also presented the assessed readiness for local partnerships in five towns of Serbia.
•Lewishamstrategicpartnership,practicesofPlano-ta accessibility programmes for disabled persons fromSlovenia,Croatianexperiencesinformationoflocal partnership for employment, development of localvillagesasruralhubsinIrelandandexamplesof localpartnerships funded fromtheEU’sLeaderprogram were all used as illustrations that support the concept promoted.
•Atfivepresentationandkick-offevents titled‘Ap-plyingtheEUmodelsofLPinSerbia’andalsoattheconferencetitled‘StrengthisinPartnership’projectresults and its process were presented to over 200 people.
• Local campaigns organised in five towns (local campaign forestablishinglocalpartnershiptoformtheCentreforYouthEm-ploymentandYouthEntrepreneurshipinUžice;localcampaignfor establishing local partnership for development of rural tour-ism in Priboj; local campaign for establishing local partnership toformtheCentreforDevelopmentofSocialEntrepreneurshipin Leskovac; local campaign for establishing local partnership to form a team for assistance to elderly and frail in remote and distantvillagesofBabušnicaandlocalcampaignforestablishinglocalpartnership forpreventionof floodsand removalofwildgarbagedumpsinPirot)broughtoverthesupportof235people.
More information available at: www.gradjanske.org
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ship
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nge
PROJECT PARTNERS
Serbian Employers Association of SMEs and Entrepreneurs and CNVOS–CentreforInformationService,Co-operationandDevelopmentofNGOsfromSlovenia
PROJECT RESULTS
39Results of Awarded Projects www.civilnodrustvo.rs
Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia implemented Greater Transparency of Local Governments - Citizens’ Right, State’s Obligation project
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rt C
amus
OPEN BUDGET INDEXInternational Budget Partnership scores for Serbia indicate that the government pro-vides the public with only some information on the central govern-ment’s budget. The ab-sence of more complete information makes it challenging for citizens to hold the government accountable for its man-agement of the public’s money.
This project pursued greater trans-parency of the public administra-tion finances, through provision of information to citizens on local governments’ budget spending practices and through training of journalists.
• In total, 12 journalists were in-volvedina6monthsmentoringprogram on how to investigate local self-governments budg-ets.Programmestartedwithatwodayseminartitled‘Investigat-inglocalself-governments’.Trainedjournalistsproducedatotalof eight supplements with each including minimum three inves-tigative stories.
• Projectalsoincludedprovisionoflegalaidasallinvestigativere-ports were checked by a media lawyer with aim to prevent pos-sible legal consequences. This action included 12 journalists and four editors acting as mentors.
• Severalprojecteventswereorganisedwithaimtoinvolvepub-licandcitizens, includingtwopressconferencesandstreetac-tionsinKikinda,Kruševac,ČačakandNištitled‘Votingweekend’,throughwhichover2,000citizenswerebroughtover.
•As a resultof theproject, a spe-cialised media file titled ‘Everygovernment prefers obedient journalists’hasbeendraftedandnewspapers Čačanske, KikindskeandGradandonlineportalJužneVesti published two supplements on budget spending and public procurement processes at local level. TV stations TV5, Podatak PlusandRTVZona,RTVKruševac,TV Jefimija from Kruševac, VK television from Kikinda and RTVČačak broadcasted specialisedTV programmes dedicated to the project goals.
•Project sought support for theiractions from a number of state institutions, including Public Pro-curement Office, Anti-CorruptionAgency Committee and Commis-sioner for Information of Public Im-portance and Protection of Privacy andCivilSocietyOrganisations,Ki-kinda’sWomenSupportCentre,Ki-kindaYouthInitiative,EducationalCentre, Association of Women‘Peščanik’(Sandglass)andassocia-tion‘Koraknapred’(StepForward),YouthAssociations‘Identity’,ČačakHomeland Association, Roma As-sociation‘BibijaćeCave’aswellasEducationUnionofČačak.
• Asaresultoftheproject,twelvejournalistsnowhaveaminimumof necessary investigating journalism skills to continue produc-ingstoriesrelatedtolocalgovernmentspendingpractice.Oneoftheproject’sresultsisalistofsuggestions,producedbyjournal-ists and aimed at improvement of local government officials cur-rentcommunicationpracticewiththemediaandcitizensalike.
More information available at: www.nuns.rs
PROJECT PARTNERSCentreforInvestigativeReportingfromBiH
PROJECT RESULTS
‘All participating media showed their keenness in this, but some highlighted difficulties that they face: such in depth investigation, much similar to that of police work, takes time and effort, a serious dedica-tion only some can give. The issue, as often is the case, lies in the financial sustainability of the media’, is reported in the project’s final report.
40 Results of Awarded Projectswww.civilnodrustvo.rs
Toplica Centre for Democracy and Human Rights implemented For Sustainable Anti-Corruption Policy project
CORRUPTION BENCHMARKING SURVEY14% of citizens reported that they had paid a bribe (gifts or money), while 35% of respon-dents said that someone within their closest social circle, relatives or close friends, gave a bribe during the previous three months. Almost half of citizens (48%) think that corrup-tion has increased and 35% believe that it has remained the same. At the same time, Serbi-an citizens (80 – 90%) believe that politicians benefit from corruption. The police (47%) and Government (46%) should be leading the fight against corruption, is stated in the Corruption Benchmarking Survey, UNDP, 2012.
This project contributed to active civil society participation in the socio-economic development through fight against corruption. It included activities that build capacities of local public, business and non-governmental sector for design and implementation of measures for reduction of corruption at local level.
•Intotal,30participantstookpartinthecapacitybuildingactivi-ties. In result, 18 local level institutions took part in local action planningexercises.Eachofsixlocalcommunitiescoveredwith the project formed their own working groups for the planning
purposes.
•Amethodologyforthemodelofthe‘LocalActionPlanforFightAgainstCorruption’hasbeendevelopedandpresentedatsev-eral round tables, at which more than 175 people took part and intotal,sixdifferentregionalandlocalTVstationscoveredtheproject, with estimated viewers of 120,000 people.
•National round-tablewith representativesofCSOsandpublicinstitutions and the press conference gathered all key institu-tions and stakeholders for fight against corruption in Serbia.
More information available at: www.topcentar.org.rs
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citu
s PROJECT PARTNEROlofPalmeInternationalCentre,Sweden
PROJECT RESULTS
‘The model of the local action plan for the fight against corruption is an attempt of a few CSOs, sup-ported partly by the local authorities, media and the local business sectors, from the six cities of Serbia, for the making of an additional step within the debate on the modalities for the fight against corruption. Six lo-cal action plans of the cities of Prokuplje, Užice, Pirot, Bečej, Majdanpek and Knjaževac were used as the foundation for the development of this model’, is ex-plained in the project publication.
41Results of Awarded Projects www.civilnodrustvo.rs
ASTRA – Anti Trafficking Action implemented Make It Work! - Fighting Trafficking and Exploitation of Workers project
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Project raised awareness on EU standards and practices in the sphere of workers’ rightsandmadeanefforttominimizetheriskofthem becoming victims of human trafficking and exploitation. The activities included research, presentations and campaigning but also direct assistance, through a hotline for the victims on human traffickingandexploitationinthelaboursphere.
• ResearchonbestpracticeincombatinglabourexploitationinEUcountrieswiththetitle‘Labourexploitationbetweenhumantraf-fickingandmigration: Institutionalchallengesversussubstantivetrends’,amongstothertopics,presentedbestpracticesincombat-inglabourexploitationinEUcountries.Italsopresentstheresultsof the survey undertaken during the project.
• StudyvisittoPolandtookplace.
• 2,506peopleweresurveyedontheirawarenessonlabourexploi-tation, and a conclusion made that there is low awareness of labour exploitations with the matter being associated with labour lawviolations (such aswithholdingpayments, tax violations, unpaidovertime).Respondentsalsodisplaylackofknowledgeastomostadequate institution they can turn to in such cases.
• Experiences anddata gained throughout theprojectwereusedduring the process of development of the Anti-Trafficking Strategy oftheRepublicofSerbiafortheperiod2012–2017,initiatedbytheGovernment of Serbia.
• International conference with the title ‘Labour exploitation as aformofhumantrafficking’attractedover70participantsandthepress conference organised in June 2012 was the start of the cam-paigntopreventlabourexploitationtitled‘MakeItWork’.Thecam-paign also included a production and broadcast of the video clip. Brochuretitled‘Laborexploitationasaformofhumantrafficking’has also been produced.
• Project provided 15 psychological, 13 medical, 13 legal and 10emergency(technicalandmaterial)services.Itdirectlyassisted118workersbeingatriskorvictimsoflabourexploitation.
More information available at: www.ASTRA.org.rs
PROJECT PARTNERSKLJUČ Society, Slovenia and Partnership for Social Development,Croatia
PROJECT RESULTS
‘The immediate impact of activities carried out under Re-sult 2 is evident in the fact that at least 2,000 members of trade unions across Serbia are able to access informa-tion about safe employment and hence increase their awareness about relevant risks. Similarly the experience of Polish authorities and civil society sector was made available to the a representatives of Serbian Ministry of Interior, a trade union of construction workers, and AS-TRA’s staff and legal counsel working on labour exploi-tation cases. Also, some of the relevant information (ju-risdiction and on-site checks by authorities, registration of migrant workers) acquired by study visit participants (trade union representatives) has been further promoted with relevant local counterparts in Serbia’, is highlighted in the project’s external evaluation.
42 Results of Awarded Projectswww.civilnodrustvo.rs
Confederation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Vojvodina implemented Prevention of Harassment at Workplace through Social Dialogue project
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This project worked to stimulate social dialogue in relation to work harassment issues in Serbian society.
• 30 tradeunionmembersundertook trainingon issuessuchaspracticalapplicationoftheLawonPreventionofHarassmentatWork,theroleoftradeunionsandemployersintheimplementa-tion of the law; basic codes of conduct of employers and employ-ees; procedures and methods of prevention against harassment, mediation.
• Particular attention at trainingswas paid toraisingskillsonhowtorecognizeharassmentat work. Examples from practice related tothe recognition of harassment at work and ways of solving it were presented by the pres-idents of trade unions from the towns and municipalities from the organisational net-work of the Confederation of AutonomousTrade Unions of Vojvodina. Possible ways of mutual cooperation of the work inspection and trade unions with employers and taking of measures related to the prevention against harassment at work has also been discussed.
• ApaperpresentingbestpracticefromtheEU(Swedishmodel)regarding harassment issues and an overview of legal solutions in European countries was presented at local events that fol-lowed the project implementation.
• GuidelinesfortheapplicationoftheLawonPreventionofHar-assment atwork and aComparative analysis on the anti-workharassment produced within the project has been widely distrib-uted throughout the trade union membership and presented at theproject’sfinalconference,atwhich80representativesofthetradeunions,CSOsandthegovernmentparticipated.
More information available at: www.sssv.rs and www.mobing.org.rs
PROJECT PARTNERArbetarnasBildiningsforbundSydHalland,Sweden
PROJECT RESULTS
43Results of Awarded Projects www.civilnodrustvo.rs
Centre for Consumers’ Protection FORUM implemented Active Consumers project
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CONSUMER PROTECTIONConsumer Policy is one of the common policies of the European Union. It is designed to ensure that the internal market is open, fair and trans-parent, allowing consumers to exercise real choice, excluding rogue traders, and helping consumers and businesses take full advantage of the market’s potential. The Constitution of Serbia (Art. 90) explicitly states that the Repub-lic of Serbia shall protect consumers, strictly prohibiting ‘activities directed against health, security and privacy of consumers and all other dishonest activities on the market’.
This project worked to improve consumer protection in Serbia by introducing European successful models and sustainable policies.
• Therewerefourtrainingsheldwithintheproject,includingspe-cialized staff training inSokoBanja for34activistsof the con-sumer organisations; seminar for consumer campaigning and journalistswhere35participantsattended;seminarforproduc-ers and commercial associations with 35 participants and theseminar for producers and commercial associations, where 25 attendees took part.
• 6issuesofthespecializedconsumerjournaltitled‘Activeconsum-
ers’were published andwidely distributed,with six informativebrochures titled‘Rightofcomplaint’, ‘Right tounilaterally termi-natethecontract’,‘Touristsarealsoconsumers’,‘Doyouknowwhatyoueat’,‘Unfairbusinesspractices’and‘Unfaircontractterms’.
• SevenconsumerprotectioncentresinNiš,Leskovac,Vranje,Pirot,Zaječar,ProkupljeandBormaintainedtheiroperationwithintheproject,servinghighnumbersofcitizensintheexerciseoftheirconsumer rights.
• The publication ‘Guide for EU Policies and Best Practices’ hasbeenpresented,amongstothertopics,atsixpressconferences,visited by 90 audiences.
• Projectcampaignedforrespectoftheconsumers’rightsduringelectionswithaninitiative‘Allcitizensareconsumers–allvotersareconsumers’,whichresultedineightelectorallistssigningthecontract with consumers.
More information available at: www.forum-nis.org.rs
PROJECT PARTNERSConsumerOrganisationofCityofLeskovac,BulgarianNationalAssociation‘ActiveConsumers’
PROJECT ASSOCIATES
National Employment Service and Institute for Education Improvement
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
‘The research undertaken within the project ‘Monitor-ing food prices’ has had a major public policy effect, as it contributed to the issue of a government decree on the reduction of the price margins for food products‘, is reported by the project team.
44 Results of Awarded Projectswww.civilnodrustvo.rs
SPARK Business Start-Up Centre implemented Youth Entrepreneurship Civil-Public Partnership project
YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENTHaving a professional occupation, in the form of a job, as self-employed or running one’s own business is of great importance to many young people to achieve independence. Since the start of the economic crisis mid-2008, more than 20% of young people in EU are un-employed. In 2005, the unemployment rate for youth in Serbia was 47.7%.
This project aimed at developing youth entrepreneurship in Šumadija and Pomoravlje region.
• 37representativesofcivicassociationstacklingyouthworkun-dertooktrainingsintopicssuchas:EUbestpracticesinyouthen-trepreneurship development, youth entrepreneurship in public campaigns,Basicconceptsofentrepreneurship,PeereducationforyouthentrepreneurshipandStrategicplanningforCSOs.
• Wide participative process lead to the official endorsement oftheproject’smajoroutput– theYouthEntrepreneurshipLocalActionPlanforKragujevac2012–2015bytheCityofKragujevac.Local multi sector committee for youth entrepreneurship, which included 14 stakeholders lead the process of the development of the plan.
• Severalpubliceventstookplacetopromotetheprojectgoals,including four round tables, titled ‘Local economic develop-ment and youth in entrepreneurship – opportunities and chal-lenges’, ‘Youth in entrepreneurship – new opportunities forbusiness in Serbia’, ‘Development of entrepreneurial spirit informaleducationsystem’,whichattracted130participants.Attheproject’sfinal conference,where theYouthEntrepreneur-ship Local Action Plan was presented, 70 representatives of the civil society sector, business and the authorities took part.
• EU’sandSerbia’sbestpracticesinyouthentrepreneurshippro-motion and development were identified, as and presented in several project publications, including ‘Brochure on EU bestpractices – initiatives for development and promotion of youth entrepreneurship’and‘Manual-Promotionofyouthentrepre-neurship–publiccampaignsmanagement’.
More information available at: www.bsckragujevac.rs; www.preduzetnistvomladih.org.rs
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RegionalYouthOfficeKragujevac
PROJECT RESULTS
Youth Entrepreneurship Local Action Plan for Kragujevac (YELAP) guarantees continuation of activities after the support from the European Union has ended. Imple-mentation of YELAP already started with two projects: a) Provision of grants for start-ups by City of Kragujevac; b) On the job practice for students in local companies, pub-lic institutions and civic organisations. ‘The project con-tributed to the establishment of efficient institutional mechanisms of collaboration and partnership between CSOs, local authorities and other relevant stakeholders for youth entrepreneurship development and promo-tion of the concept in Šumadija and Pomoravlje region’, is stated in the project’s final report.
45Results of Awarded Projects www.civilnodrustvo.rs
European Movement in Serbia implemented Development of Social Entrepreneurship in Serbia project
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lsThis project promoted innovation and alternative economy, work-ing to raise capacities of local stakeholders andemployment/so-cial services providers in managing alternative economy potential of Serbia and highlighting the benefits of social entrepreneurship.
• Therewereseveninfosessionsheldwith170unemployedpeo-ple, at which possibilities for self-employment through founding of social enterprises were presented. Also, seven regional train-
ingstookplace,atwhich170trainees(fromlocalmunicipalities,National Employment Service, centres for social work, regional chambers of commerce, regional development agencies , local CSO)tookpartwithtopicsonalternativeeconomypotentialsinSerbia, social entrepreneurship, financial sustainability and fun-draising and local networks and partnerships. Development of social entrepreneurship concept in Italy and EU practice and les-sons learnt were particularly highlighted.
• Trainingmanual titled‘Capacity building of local employmentservices and social service providers for development of alter-native economy potentials in Serbia’, media toolkit on socialentrepreneurshipconceptandonexamplesofsocialenterprisesinSerbiaandaleafletonsocialeconomyinSerbia,weredevel-oped.
• Threepressconferencestitled‘DevelopmentofSocialEntrepre-neurship–IntroductorytotheProject’tookplaceinKragujevac,Niš and Belgrade, and threemedia visits to social enterprisesNašaKuća,EcoBag,Izvor,NoviMostoviandKECMNRO,atwhichover 20 media and over 100 individuals took part.
More information available at: www.emins.org
PROJECT PARTNERS
Co.Ge.S.SocietàCooperativaSocialeandIstitutoRegionaleperl’educazioneeglistudicooperative
PROJECT ASSOCIATES
Serbian National Employment Service, Social Inclusion and PovertyReductionUnit,BalkanCommunityInitiativesFund,SMart Kolektiv, Initiative for DevelopmentandCooperationSerbia, Group 484
PROJECT RESULTS
‘The project with its extensive trainings, media events and conferences targeted large number of relevant local stakehold-ers thus contributing to the overall pro-motion of the concept of Social entre-preneurship and economy. The concept is randomly recognized in Serbian legal system and there is no full legal and in-stitutional framework that could enable smooth establishing and operation of the social enterprises. However, there is growing understanding among relevant institutions and among the political ac-tors that this sector and opportunities it provides could be better exploited for the improvement of the employment struc-ture and economic situation of the vulner-able groups’, is stated in the project’s final report.
46 Results of Awarded Projectswww.civilnodrustvo.rs
Centre for Society Orientation implemented
Social Services for Persons with Disabilities as Support for Equal Socio-economic Development project
ThisprojectwasimplementedinNoviBeograd,Užice,Majdanpek,Vranje, Aleksandrovac, Smederevska Palanka, Velika Plana, Sme-derevo,NoviKneževacandKanjižapursuingimprovedgovernancein the domain of social services in Serbia.
• 200 people from 10 municipali-ties in Serbia passed through two-day workshops, which re-sulted in initiation of the devel-opment of new disability action plans and revision of existingones in nine municipalities cov-ered.
• Localstakeholdersjointlyenteredprocess of development of action plans and/or renewing existingones in the nine municipalities and were assisted in this process by the two toolkits for social ser-vices managers. Prior to this, two service providers have developed and piloted the practical toolkit for managers and service provid-ers in relation with the introduc-tion of internal regulatory proce-dures at the level of services.
• Forum of service providers hasbeen initiated, technical secre-tariats identified and linkages with European level actors estab-lished.
• Fiveshortvideoswereproducedand translated in to sign lan-
guage by persons with hearing im-pairments.10 local campaigns were implemented with the support of local partners and of local media that broadcasted the videos free of charge as part of their corporate so-cial responsibility strategy.
•Analytical monitoring report onthe condition of social services in Serbia and presentation of inter-national and national standards and policies in the field of disabili-ty was produced in wide consulta-tion process among project part-ners,serviceproviders,DPOsandrelevant stakeholders for service provision in Serbia.
•Internet campaign on social net-work Facebook andYoutube hasbeen launched and one docu-mentary movie produced that will serve as further tool for advocacy and lobbying for development of support services Serbia wide.
More information available at: www.cod.rs , www.disabilitymonitor-see.org, www.invalidnost.info
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Serbian Society of Autism, European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities – EASPD, Inclusive SocietyDevelopmentCentre
PROJECT ASSOCIATES
International Aid Network – IAN,CityMunicipalityofNewBelgrade
PROJECT RESULTS
‘During whole period of the project, project part-ners were encouraging actively the local owner-ship of all activities and outputs of the project. Both municipal authorities and non-governmen-tal organisations, including service providers are encouraged to use the acquired skills and tools for identification, planning and development of support services in the sphere of employment and education for persons with disabilities, as support for equal socio-economic development’, is stated in the project’s final report.
47Results of Awarded Projects www.civilnodrustvo.rs
Micro Development Fund implemented
Support to Civil Society for Local Socio-economic Development and Social Inclusion project
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This project was implemented in Kragujevac, Kraljevo, Kruševac, Čačak,GornjiMilanovac,Užice,NovaVaroš,Niš, Jagodina,VrnjačkaBanja, Knić, Batočina and Rača to improve participatory role of stakeholders in local socioeconomic development and in social in-clusion of vulnerable groups, with a focus on people with no work experienceandlongtermunemployed.
• Counselling and career guidance has been provided to 556socially disadvantaged persons, 772 people received tailored informationmaterials,124jobseekersbecameclientsofthe‘In-formedchoiceandreferrals’programand82peopleusedvoca-tionaltrainingsand53wereinvolvedincurriculumtrainings.
• Crosscuttingtopicsoftheeducativeprogramsincludedtopicssuchas:Howtoregistercompany,Marketresearch,Howtoforma price, Improvement of product selling, Positioning on market, Payment claims, etc. Three brochures titled ‘Labor Law - newtrends,changesandamendments’,‘PaymentClaims’and‘Com-panies’werewidelydistributed,supportingtheprojects’goals.
• PressconferenceinBelgradeandNišandaroundtableinKragu-jevachelpedpopularizetheproject.
• ‘Protocoloncooperationandimplementationofstrategyofca-reerguidanceandcounsellingonlocallevel’,signedinKruševachelped the project to continue beyond the initial lifespan.
Sometangibleresultsoftheprojectinclude:
1.B.T.-InternallyDisplacedfromKosovo,livedinCollectivecen-tre in Kragujevac, and took a course in construction. After gain-ing a certificate he found job in construction firm, even finished his own house.
2. M.M. - long term unemployed single mother took a course in sewing and tailoring. She is self-employed now and supports her family.
3.C.G.-longtimeunemployedtradertookCTinsewingandtai-loring. Now, she works for a car producing company – produc-ing upholstery.
• Meetings and information exchange with the National Em-ployment Offices in municipalities Nova Varoš, Užice, Čačak,Kruševac, Kraljevo and Niš; national universities in Kruševac, Ja-godina,Niš,Kraljevo,KragujevacandGornjiMilanovac,Region-alDevelopmentAgencyinUžice,EducationalCentre‘EconomyAcademy’ in Čačak, Educational Institution ‘Pro Group’ Užiceand other stakeholders helped in the public outreach of the project concept.
More information available at: www.mdf.org.rs
PROJECT PARTNERS NGO‘Viktorija’
PROJECT ASSOCIATE
Social Inclusion and Poverty ReductionUnit
PROJECT RESULTS
48 Results of Awarded Projectswww.civilnodrustvo.rs
Youth with Disabilities Forum implemented Career Guidance Local Platform project
CONTEXTUAL MISMATCH‘It is unquestionable that career guidance and counselling are new to the Republic of Serbia, because in their essence, they do not fit the tra-ditional relationship between education and labor market. This is especially evident today, when there are more and more discussions about a new concept which comprises career as a changeable category that quickly and eas-ily changes due to the changes in employee’s interests, competencies and values, but also due to the changes in work environment’, is stated in the National Strategy for Career Guid-ance and Counselling, Government of Serbia.
ThisprojectworkedinPožarevac,Kragujevac,NoviSadandBelgrade,tackling employment challenges, in particular those affectingyoung people and socially disadvantaged groups.
• Education activities and piloting of the career guidance pro-gramme for the disadvantaged youth in particular, were key activ-ities, and they led to the certification of the relevant institutions.
• Intotal,39workshopswereimplementedwithinthepilotingand132disadvantagedyouthsuccessfullycompletedtheprogram.Thetrainees included young people with disabilities, juvenile perpetra-torsand/oreconomicallydisadvantagedyouthandalsointerestedyoung people with no particular social problems. After the imple-mentation trainees are now more informed on prospects of their fu-ture professional occupation and can make informed decisions on whichuniversitytoattend.Furthermore,20participantsfrompub-lic institutions and 20 participants from national employment ser-vices are now certified to keep on implementing this programme.
• ‘Experience It Live’ event and web-based multimedia pro-grammeshelpedpopularisetheprogramme.‘ExperienceItLive’eventswererealizedinKragujevac,Mladenovac,PožarevacandNovi Sad attractingover 1,000 youngpeople’s attentionwhiletheproject’sfinalconferenceoncemorehighlightedimportanceof the career guidance to 52 participants.
• Inordertoensuresustainabilityoftheproject,CareerGuidanceNetwork was established with four memorandums on coopera-tionandunderstandingsignedinfourcities,involving43actors,including national and local institutions, from business, civil soci-ety, employment and social services and local governments.
More information available at: www.fmi.rs
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PROJECT PARTNERS NGOŠansafromPožarevac
PROJECT ASSOCIATE
National Employment Service and Institute for Education Improvement
PROJECT RESULTS
‘Through various activities related to education and policy improvement the project improved awareness on employment of people with disabilities and created more opportunities for job finding and full inclusion’, is reported by the Head of the Employment Service, when describing this project.
49Results of Awarded Projects www.civilnodrustvo.rs
Mental Disability Rights Initiative of Serbia implemented
United in Action: Employment of Persons with Disabilities through Public-Private Partnership project
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This project pursued enhanced participation of people with disabilities in their communities in employment, social care, edu-cation and health care, striving for more inclusive local policies. It made an effort to challenge stigma and prejudice on people with disabilities’ incompetence,incapability and uselessness through promotion of social cooperatives as a sustainable employment model.
• Infocentreestablishedwithinthe project provided support to 50 clients on employment, public-private partnership, networking and legal ad-vices, sharing examples ofgood practice. Additionally, 50 people received free legal aid through workshops.
• Two-dayworkshopsonprej-udice and stigma, one-day workshops on social entre-preneurshiptitled‘Fromideato realization’ and two-dayworkshops on support ser-vices,networking,financingpossibilitiesforlocalCSOsandreali-zationofrightsofpersonswithdisabilitieswereheldinParaćin,ZaječarandLeskovac,forover200participants.
• Practical guide titled ‘Employment of persons with disabilitythrough social entrepreneurship’, leaflets titled ‘Right to workfor persons with disabilities’, ‘Legal capacity’ and the thirdone presenting information on the Info centre contributed to
the promotion of the project as well as stickers with a slogan RADIM=VREDIM ( I work therefore I’m valued). Video promot-ing the right to work for persons with disabilities and video with three modules of workshops were also developed.
• Throughout theproject social entrepreneurship as a sustainablemodel of employment of persons with disabilities and networking at local level were stimulated as good practice. The project associ-ate presented the possibilities for successful cooperation at local level, particularly those regarding socially responsible companies.
• Moretangibleresultsincludeestablishedcooperation:betweenmunicipalityandCSOorganisationfromZaječar,whoworkedto-gether on social protection strategy; between municipality and non-formal group of parents, which aims at developing a day centre for children with disability in Leskovac and also registra-tion of Association of Parents in Paraćin.
More information available at: www.disabilityrightsintl.org/mdri-serbia
PROJECT PARTNERSAssociation for Supporting People with Developmental Disabilities‘NašaKuća’
PROJECT ASSOCIATES
MunicipalityofZvezdaraandBalkanCommunityInitiativesFund
PROJECT RESULTS
50 Results of Awarded Projectswww.civilnodrustvo.rs
SeConS-Development Initiative Group implemented Localization of EU Social Inclusion Policy in Serbia project
Thisprojectenhancedexpertiseofcivilsociety, local government and local in-stitutions for mainstreaming social in-clusion goals in the implementation of local policies.
• The projects supported establish-ment of social inclusion teams in Pirot, Kruševac, Prokuplje, Babušnica,IvanjicaandBoljevac,in-cluding over 30 local stakeholdersin this process.
• Partner’s municipality team, upondelivery of tailored trainings and provision of direct support, pro-ducedaSocialInclusionReportforPirot, first of such kind in Serbia. Thiswasidentifiedasa‘goodprac-tice’formonitoringsocial inclusionat the local level, and consequently, five additional reports were devel-oped in the following municipali-ties:Kruševac,Prokuplje,Babušnica,IvanjicaandBoljevac.Thesereportscan be used as example of goodpractices in further process of development of social inclusion policies at local level, and together with toolkit.
• Reportswerepresentedtowideraudience,atseveralpresscon-ferences.
• Toachievetheseresults,severaltrainingswereheld.
Training 1: ‘SocialInclusionPolicyintheEUandSerbia’–deliv-ered to members of Social Inclusion Team of Pirot Municipality, with the main purpose to increase knowledge and skills of the Social Inclusion Team in the field of social inclusion policies in the EU and Serbia.
Training 2:‘Monitoringsocialinclusionatlocallevel’–delivered
to members of Social Inclusion Team of Pirot Municipality, with the main purpose to increase knowledge and competence of the Social Inclusion Team from Pirot Municipality for monitoring of social inclusion at local level.
Training 3:‘Strengthening trainingandmentoring skills’ –de-livered to members of Social Inclusion Team of Pirot Municipal-ity, whose aim was to increase the training and mentoring skills
of the Social Inclusion Team, do they could transfer their knowledge to the nextgenerationofmunicipalities, se-lected within the project.
Training 4: Training on social in-clusion policies for representatives of five newly selected municipalities, tar-geting social inclusion teams of mu-nicipalities: Ivanjica, Kruševac, Proku-plje,BoljevacandBabušnica,withthepurpose to increase knowledge of so-cial inclusion teams from pilot munici-palities in the field of social inclusion policies at EU, national and local level.
• Besides trainings, 10 workshops- five with partner municipality Pirot and five with pilot municipalities and extensive mentoring support weremaintained during the project.
• ‘Templateformonitoringsocialin-clusionat local level’ isaunique tooldeveloped within the projects, drafted in accordance with available data at
local level, and outputs from consultation meetings with several stakeholders. Template served as methodological framework for productionofsixbaselinereportsonsocialinclusionandsocialprotection in partner and pilot municipalities.
• Topresenttheprocessimplementedwithintheprojecta‘Toolkitformainstreamingsocialinclusionatlocallevel’hasbeendevel-oped,includingthreecomponents:themanual,trainingcurricu-lum and training materials. The manual includes basic principles of social inclusion policy and practical guidelines and may serve asaguidelineforthenextgenerationsofmunicipalitiesdecidingto follow the process.
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Social Inclusion and Poverty ReductionUnit(SIPRU)
PROJECT RESULTS
51Results of Awarded Projects www.civilnodrustvo.rs
Association of Business Women in Serbia implemented Reducing Young Women Unemployment in Serbian Underdeveloped Municipalities by Supporting Self-employment in Service and Tourist Sectors project
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WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIPEntrepreneurship is a key element of growth and development prospects for all countries, and has been recognized in the EU as a main engine for a modern, dynamic, knowledge-based economy, but women’s entrepreneurial potential remains largely untapped and under-used across Europe, including Serbia.
Increased awareness on new market capacities, new market sup-ply and higher women’s role in business has been the focus of the action.WomenfromBelgrade,ValjevoandKraljevoweresupportedto start their own business.
• Trainingandmentoringformentorsandmenteeswasorganisedwithintheproject,targeting23participants,andconsultingwasprovidedinsixcases.Topicsincludedentrepreneurshipandso-cial media.
• Mentoringmanuals formentorsandmentees titles‘GuidelinesfortheImplementationoftheMentoringProgramforMentors’and‘Guidelines for the Implementation of theMentoring Pro-gram forMentees’weredraftedon thebasisofgainedexperi-ences.
• Booklet and film titled‘Women Contribute to Local Devel-opment’contributedtothepromotionoftheprojectresultsand goals. Press conferences and exhibitions organisedwithintheprojectservedthesamepurpose.Over40TVpro-grams, press articles and radio reports helped gain attention of the public.
• Projectimplementationandentrepreneurshiptraining,mentor-ing and consulting for start-ups, lead to eight new companies registered during the project and two entries into the new more lucrative sectors.
More information available at: www.poslovnezene.org.rs
PROJECT PARTNERSRegionalChamberofCommerceValjevo,RegionalChamberofCommerceKraljevo
PROJECT ASSOCIATE
NationalCorporationforTourism Development
PROJECT RESULTS
’We provided to our mentees not only open door consult-ing regarding the development of their future busi-ness, but also sup-port in writing the project proposals since several calls for projects for sup-port in rural tour-ism have been an-nounced during the project’, is reported by the project coor-dinator.
52 Results of Awarded Projectswww.civilnodrustvo.rs
This project worked with lo-cally based services provid-ers on raising employability of people with disabilities.
• Several trainings were heldincluding those on Dutch experiences inemploymentof people with disability, advocacy, and on running a CSO network. Develop-ment of local actions with participating local service providers was a result of all the trainings held.
• Manualdescribingmethodsof employment of persons with disability and Serbian legal framework for employ-ment of persons with dis-ability titled ‘Through Em-ployment towards Inclusion of People with Disability in Serbia’ presented and structured all the training topics. Themanual presents eight good practices in employment of PwD from the Netherlands and Serbia.
• Anumberofpubliceventstookplacewithintheprojectinclud-ing:Openingofthestore‘Birdy’inKula,wherehandcraftsmade
bypersonswithintellectualdisabilityaresold;OpeningofthefooddeliveringservicebyPwDorganisedby‘OurHome’inBel-grade; National conference on employment of people with dis-abilities and other.
• The Protocol for Advancement of Cross-Sectoral Cooperationin the Area of Inclusive Education, Employment and Integrative SocialProtectioninLocalCommunitywassignedinKruševac,which will enable continuation of the benefits of the project beyond its initial lifespan. 10 institutions and several CSOssigned the document.
• As a tangible result of the project, five organisations havedevelopedandsuccessfullyrealizedlocalactionsforemploy-ment of people with disabilities that resulted in employment of19peoplewithdisabilities.Forexample,the‘Birdy’storeinKula employed five people with disabilities and the new food delivering service‘Kitchen on theWheels’ started due to co-
operation of CSO ‘Our Home’, Municipality of Zvezdara andbusinessTopRestcateringservice,employingfivepeoplewithdisabilities.
More information available at:www.bcif.org
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StichtingSOFTTulipfromtheNetherlands,OrganisationforMentallyChallengedPersons‘PlavaPtica’fromKula,Societyfor Support to People with DevelopmentalDisorders‘OurHome’,AssociationofCitizensandParentsofChildrenwith Special Needs, Serbian Association for Promotion of Inclusion(SAPI),AssociationforHelptoMentallyChallengedPeople of the Municipality of Trstenik
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Balkan Community Initiatives Fund implemented Through Employment towards Inclusion of Persons with Disability in Serbia project
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