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UZICE
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Author:
NGO Libergraf
Trg
Partizana 10/1, 31000 Uzice
Tel/Fax: 381 31 514 447
E-mail: liber@infosky.net |
The current focus of NGO work in West Serbia is the
enhancement of local self-management work and strengthening of
cooperation between NGOs and municipal authorities. This trend can
be explained by the new republic law on local self-management and
by the necessity of strengthening the cooperation between
local authorities and NGOs in solving the accrued social problems
in this region that can only be solved through joint identifying
of priorities and their resolution.
In
cooperation with another ten NGOs from West Serbia, the Civic
Reading Room «Libergraf» started the campaign «Better law for
better life» realised in eleven municipalities: Uzice, Pozega,
Arilje, Kosjeric, Ivanjica, Lucani, Cajetina, Bajina Basta, Nova
Varos, Priboj and Prijepolje. The goals of the campaign are to
increase direct communication between local government officials
and citizens, to enhance the work of municipal services and to
promote the advantages of the new local self-management law. The
campaign activities include a media campaign in the form of TV and
radio jingles and documentary films, a street action through
giving out leaflets and sticking posters, and open town meetings
with representatives of NGOs, municipal government and interested
citizens as participants. The campaign «Better law for better
life» is part of the national campaign «Future is Europe» ,
financed by USAID/DTI.
The
project
“DIALOGUE
5: Cooperation between non-governmental organisations and local
self-management in five municipalities of West Serbia”
is a long-term project
of the Centre
for the Development of Non-Profit Sector in
West Serbia,
aimed at the enhancement
of cooperation between local self-management and
non-governmental organisations through defining priorities and
ways of their resolution in five municipalities of West Serbia (Valjevo,
Sabac,
Uzice,
Bajina
Basta
and Pozega),
where the NGO
sector
is
relatively
developed,
in order to improve local community development, affirm
civic initiatives and civil society ideas as key factors in
democracy development. The project activities are being realised
by way of three town meetings, a seminar
and a TV
broadcast in every target municipality. The project duration is
ten months
(March - December 2002).
The project has been realised in Valjevo (the protocol on
cooperation between NGOs and the local self-management has been
signed) and Sabac,
and it is being implemented in Uzice at present.
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Kragujevac | Smederevska Palanka |
Paracin | Kucevo |
Kraljevo | Uzice
| Pozega | Knjazevac |
Nis | Leskovac |
Pirot | |
