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Civic Policies and Democratic Political Process

Community Development and Mechanisms for Efficient Local Governance Through Structured Public Private Interactions

   The implementation of the project on Community Development and Mechanisms for Efficient Local Governance through Structured Public Private Interactions started in December 2005.

  The major goal of the proposed project was to strengthen the process of democratic reconstruction of local decentralized government through establishing and supporting working models for public and private partnerships in Macedonia and BiH. IRIS achieved this goal through facilitation of integrated mechanism for cooperation and community planning, based on mobilizing dynamic new synergies among groups of local interests – communities, entrepreneurs’ organizations, political activists and municipal authorities. The project envisaged also combining the efforts of business, citizens and local authorities into an effective and integrated model for community development based on the rule of law, transparency and promotion of public interests.  

The project is being implemented with the financial support of the Balkan Trust for Democracy, Belgrade. 

 

 

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The Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) is an independent, non-government think tank. IRIS was established on June 11, 1997 by leading Bulgarian public and political figures, NGO leaders and prominent Bulgarian scholars in international relations, Balkan studies, history, social and political science, anthropology and economics.
 
The Institute for Regional and International Studies initiates, develops and implements civic strategies for democratic politics on national, regional and international level. The Institute promotes the values of democracy, civil society, freedom and respect of law, assists the process of Bulgarian integration in NATO and the EU and provides public policy analyses on current domestic and international issues. IRIS represents a strategic combination of advocacy-oriented and education-oriented think tank.