The overall objective of the project is to further strengthen the organizational capacity of the Economic Research & Policy Institute “Finance Think” in supporting the economic policy decision makers to deliver credible policy decisions based on research findings, as well in igniting the debate in the society about economic processes and reforms.
Provider: Think Tank Fund (Open Society Foundations)
Duration: 2 years (2016-2018)
The objective of the project is to address efficiency and quality of selected policies in quality of life, education and health through public debate and policy options derived from data and evidence.
The project is expected to bring the following changes:
The project will deliver the following outputs:
Donor: British Embassy, Skopje
Duration: July 2016 – March 2018
Call for EoI (NGOs) – Application form (NGOs)
Call for EoI (My story) – Application form (My story)
Call for focus group participation`
Call for еxperts – Application form (experts)
Debate club of experts, Skopje, 26 October 2016 – Gallery
Interim expert meeting, 26 April 2017
The project aims to forecast the size and effects of remittances and emigration in 4 Western-Balkan (WB) countries, through a novel method: Delphi questionnaire.
In particular, the project has the following tasks: 1) to provide a literature overview of forecasting remittances and emigration; 2) to collect data through a Delphi questionnaire from economic experts and remittance-receivers; 3) to forecast remittances and emigration based on the data obtained in (2); 4) provide policy recommendations based on the forecasted trends; and 5) to compare forecasted trends among the 4 countries.
Donor: Regional Research Promotion Program
Project partners: ACSER Albania, FREN Serbia, Individual researcher Kosovo
Duration: 6 months (2016)
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Project meeting, Istanbul, Turkey, 27-30 October 2016 – Аgenda – Gallery
Round table “The future of remittances and emigration: Can they be forecast?”, 22 November 2016, Faculty of Economics, Prilep – Invitation and agenda – Gallery
Infographs – Macedonia – Serbia – Albania – Kosovo
Media appearance – MRT – Telma – Nova Makedonija
Forecasting results – Маcedonia – Serbia – Аlbania – Коsovо
The main objective of the project is to contribute to improvement of active labour market policies and boosting employment in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia.
More specific objectives of the policy advocacy are: (a) to identify legal, financial, and practical weakness in employment policies which result in their low efficiency and low effectiveness; (b) to inform and expand knowledge of key stakeholders in the field; (c) to empower stakeholders to make informed decisions by providing relevant analysis and feasible policy recommendations in this area; and (d) to put the issue of ALMP on the respective agendas of relevant decision-makers in these three countries.
Donor: European Fund for the Balkans
Partners: Analitika – Center for Social Research (Bosnia and Herzegovina); Agenda Institute (Albania)
Duration: January – August 2016
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Round table, Skopje, 20 October 2016 – Аgenda – Gallery – Messages 1 2 3 4
Policy brief – Policy memo – Policy study
Overall objective of the project is to increase the activation of persons at risk of social exclusion in the labor market by improving their skills, education, qualification and facilitating their full integration into the society and the labor market.
This overarching objective is broken down into specific purposes involving concrete interventions on three fronts:
Donor: European Commission – Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance
Partner: Childcare and Family Center (KMOP) – Athens, Greece
Duration: 20 months (January 2016 – August 2017)
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CALL FOR TRAINING PARTICIPATION for increasing of employability of socially-vulnerable category of citizens – Training APPLICATION
Competition for pieces of art – Report and assessment
Trainings for disadvantaged groups – Skopje – Ohrid – Veles – Kumanovo
Policy brief 17 – Could social mentorship increase employability in our country?
Mentorship manual – Measure and service protocol – Internship guidelines
Closing conference “New measures for new jobs” – Agenda – Gallery
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CALLS AND TENDERS
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Call for tender 03-221 – Offer submission request – Offer form
Call for tender 02-411 – Offer submission request – Offer form
Offer announcement – interpreter
Call for tender -Trainer 02-198/01
Call for tender-Expert 03-337/01
Vacancy announcement – financial officer
Call for tender 02-83 – Offer announcement – Form
The objective of this project is to correctly measure gender pay gaps (difference in wages between men and women) and motherhood pay gaps (difference in wages between mothers and childless women) in Macedonia and to advocate solutions for addressing the prevalent pay gaps.
In particular, previous research has demonstrated that Macedonia faces gender and motherhood wage gaps of 12.5% and 8.7%, respectively. However, a large part of females remains outside the labour market and can therefore not be considered when the pay gap is calculated (as their wage is not observed). This makes the above figures incorrect, since it is likely that females who stay outside the labour market are not randomly selected not to work. Hence, one bold challenge is to obtain knowledge for the proper calculation of pay gaps, i.e. econometric (technical) knowledge to address the selectivity bias in the labour market.
The project envisages activities positioned within three pillars:
Donor: Know-how Exchange Program – Austria through the Central European Initiative
Project partner (know-how provider): The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies
Duration: November 2015 – January 2017
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Video – The gender wage gap in Macedonia through the perspectives of 5 women
Initial kick-off meeting, Vienna, 21-22 December 2015 – Agenda – Gallery
Training “Econometric methods for survey data”, Vienna, 28-30 January 2016 – Agenda – Gallery
Research stay, Vienna, 31 January – 3 February 2016 – Agenda
Working meeting at the Federal Ministry of Education and Women, Vienna, 1 February 2016 – Gallery
Cartoon competition – Flyer – Call – Gallery & winners
Workshop „Gender and motherhood wage gap: Policies, data and econometric methods“, Skopje, 5 July 2016 – Call – Gallery
Round table “Women in the labor market: Stereotypes and challenges”, Skopje, 6 July 2016 – Invitation and agenda – Press release – Gallery
Research stay, Vienna, 19 – 24 September 2016 – Agenda – Gallery
Research seminars attended at wiiw (Gallery):
Working meeting with a gender expert at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, 22 September 2016 – Gallery
Research stay, Vienna, 14-15 December 2016 – Agenda
Economic forum: „Gender equal wages for higher economic growth“ – Skopje, 30 January 2017 – Аgenda – Gallery – Gender responsible companies
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Policy brief 15: The gender wage gap is detrimental for economic growth
Upgrade of EdPlaKo-MK
Manual for proper calculation of the gaps
Authors: Blagica Petreski, Despina Petreska
The overall objective of the project is twofold: first, to improve the capacity of civil society and media to contribute to evidence-based economic dialogue in the country, enabling more participatory and transparent policymaking, with strong focus on fiscal policymaking; and, second, to increase the public awareness for the process of spending public money.
Supported by the British Embassy Skopje
Duration: August 2015 – March 2016
The objective of this project is to raise the awareness for the gender wage discrimination in Macedonia.
In particular, the project builds on an ongoing work, consisting of two pillars: i) calculating the gender wage gap in Macedonia, after workers’ characteristics and selectivity bias have been taken into consideration; and ii) building the EdPlaKo-MK web tool which enables individuals to test their gender-neutral wage and companies to test their wage system against gender discrimination. The main activity of this proposal consists of visualization of the gender wage gap in Macedonia that will be added to the EdPlaKo-MK site, as well through two flyers, so as it gives further information on gender wage gap at the level of sector, occupation, age, experience and education, and further promotes the EdPlaKo-MK tool.
Duration: 7 months (2015)
Donor: TTF Open Society Foundations
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Expert opinion in “Lice v Lice“
Flyer 2 – Distribution through “Economics and Business” monthly
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Video – The gender wage gap in Macedonia through the perspectives of 5 women
The main objective of the project is to improve self-sustainability of women through development of alternative touristic attractions out of their skills for traditional, homemade and ecological production: embroider linen, knittings, wild berry jams, pasta peeling and grains, natural tea and the like.
Project activities envisage: training of Krushevo women for skills for entrepreneurship, promotion and sales of traditional products, expanding and strengthening the mini-cluster developed within the previous project, developing of three alternative touristic attractions embedding traditional values and promotional campaign involving an event “Days of alternative touristic attractions in Krushevo” and the Fair “It’s homemade, it’s from Krushevo…”. Designed in this way, the project offers an innovative way of combining social entrepreneurship and sustainable tourism, into an individual business model for women’s self-sufficiency.
Donor: US Embassy Skopje
Duration: 2015-2016 (10 months)
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Call for female participation October 2015 – Call – Application
Workshop for designing alternative touristic attractions, Krushevo, 25-26 December 2015 – Gallery
Piloting of “Botanic tour” and “Aronia grove”, Krushevo, 28 May 2016 – Gallery
Piloting of “Churches from Krushevo and a Vlach house – religion, arts, colors”, Krushevo, 05 June 2016 – Gallery
Brochure: “Krushevo is more beautiful on foot…”
Video: “Krushevo is more beautiful on foot…”
Tour: Botanic walk, Krushevo, 30 July 2016 – Gallery
Tour: Aronia plantation, Krushevo, 30 July 2016 – Gallery
Fair of traditional, homemade, ecologic products “It’s homemade, it’s from Krushevo…”, Krushevo, 31 July 2016 – Gallery
Tour:”Churches from Krushevo and a Vlach house – religion, arts, colors”, Krushevo, 31 July 2016 – Gallery
