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Grantee List Advocacy
Advocacy 2009
Organisation |
Town |
Amount (EUR) |
Society for Roma Emancipation “Kham” |
Trstenik |
8,873.91 |
Advocating for a space where a Roma cultural-educational center would take place. There is no adequate space for Roma people in Trstenik. That obstructs implementation of activities which have a goal to preserve cultural values, identity, language and customs of Roma population.
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Academy of Female Entrepreneurship |
Kikinda |
9,235.09 |
Advocating for solving the problem of unemployed women. There are currently 4000 unemployed women in Kikinda. By providing money from the budget of the municipality of Kikinda, 200 female citizens of Kikinda would be enabled to go through a program for economical strengthening of the unemployed women. They would be
able to apply for start-up loans after the education. |
Lužnica Craft Works “Women Ethno Village” |
Babušnica |
8,140.70 |
| The organization works on the problem of unemployed women in the municipality of Babušnica. According to the latest information, there are over 1000 of them. The organization wants to reduce the number of unemployed women by reviving old crafts (traditional weaving, making traditional preserves etc.), and by providing financial support from the municipality for founding old crafts workshops. |
Union of Ecologists “UNECO Regional Center” |
Paraćin |
8,504.42 |
| NGO UNECO works on preserving and putting an end to further devastation of the spring of river Grza, which is an important back-up hydrological resource, that is a considerable reserve of drinking water of the highest quality. The organization is planning to influence the committee to make a decision, by which the wellhead of river Grza would be recognized as a protected natural area. |
“The Green Circle”
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Bački Petrovac
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9,099.82 |
| The organization works on the problem of packaging waste which emerges after using various chemical products in agriculture, since 40 percent of the citizens of Bački Petrovac works in agriculture. Packaging is currently being taken to city land fill, and it is not treated separately from other communal waste. |
Toplica - Committee for Local Community Development |
Prokuplje |
9,259.45 |
| The organization advocates for waste selection and recycling on the territory of the municipality of Prokuplje. All the waste (glass, metal) collected by the communal service is being taken to city land fill. The organization wishes to influence the committee to make a decision on waste separation, by putting up containers for different waste selection. |
“SFERA No” |
Beograd |
9,132.86 |
| With support from school management, Secretariat Management for Communal Works and elementary school children, the group wishes to influence the committee to provide the money from the budget in order to buy containers for waste separation. With students from Stefan Nemanja elementary school, the group wishes to launch waste selection process on the territory of the municipality of Savski Venac. Via school parliament, the students would perform waste collection and selection, and they would have a chance to decide on how to spend the money they’d earn. |
Center for Ecology and Sustainable Development
“CEKOR” |
Subotica |
8,925.80 |
| Advocating for a greater citizen participation in the process of creating a strategy, programs and planned ecological documents, such as urbanization and spatial plans, on the municipal level. |
Serbian Association for Promoting Inclusion – API Serbia |
Belgrade |
9,420.87 |
| The organization works on problems of the disabled people, that is people with intellectual difficulties in the municipality of Savski Venac. The group advocates for a mobile support team which would be financed from municipal budget, and which would help to those who are most vulnerable to realize their rights and satisfy their needs. |
GM Optimist |
Gornji Milanovac |
9,330.58 |
| GM Optimist works on the problem of electric waste disposal in Gornji Milanovac. By organizing public actions, a media campaign and by lobbying organizations, the organization is planning to influence Municipal Board to find a space where electronic and electric waste would be taken to. |
Advocacy 2008
Organisation |
Town |
Amount (EUR) |
Eco club Zeleni putokazi |
Raška |
8.669,24 |
Solving problems of garbage disposal from rural areas, through lobbying, concrete actions and information dissemination campaign.
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Citizens’ reading- room Pirgos |
Pirot |
11.244,57 |
Stimulating economic and sustainable rural development by establishing the Municipal Council for sustainable development in rural communities in Pirot municipality.
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Zlatiborski krug |
Čajetina |
9.778,24 |
| Through lobbying and a campaign, the organization influenced decision-makers (members of the Municipal Assembly Čejetina) to increase the number of women in the decisionmaking process by changing the statutes of the municipality and MZs. |
Agronomski centar |
Priboj |
8.485,61 |
| Initiative for influencing members of the Municipal Assembly Priboj to establish Counseling Board which would deal with development of agriculture and villages. |
Terras |
Subotica |
8.485,61 |
| Through organization of relevant institutions and organizations into a working group, as well as initiative for starting a campaign, the organization influenced changes in strategic documents for eliminating ambrosia in Subotica. |
Ecological cyclist society Green bike |
Valjevo |
11.314,15 |
Advocacy for solving the problem of rivers’ pollution in the area of Valjevo municipality, by introducing ecological police in Valjevo.
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Resource Center |
Majdanpek |
7.413,31 |
| Influence on local self-government to distribute municipal budget funds allocated for citizens’ association in a transparent way. |
Society for cerebral and children’s paralysis |
Paraćin |
5.707,99 |
| Advocacy for allocating funds in the municipal budget for a public bus for people with disabilities. |
Romano alav |
Kruševac |
8.448,84 |
| Influence on municipal representatives to establish inter-sector team which would deal with problems of Roma population in Kruševac. |
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