The initiative aims to make participatory democracy more inclusive for young people, women and displaced persons (including refugees, immigrants and internally displaced persons).
Budget for all: Citizen consultations to create a budget according to local needs
The aim of the project is to involve all residents of the municipality of Krushevo in the process of creating the local budget.
FISCAST Network – Enhancing dialogue for higher municipal financial transparency, with focus on parafiscal charges
The overall objective of the project is “To strengthen FISCAST network’s monitoring of and partnering with local stakeholders on LSGUs’ financial transparency, with reference to parafiscal charges.”
This overarching aim is broken down into specific objectives involving concrete interventions on four fronts.
Specific objective 1: To enhance capacities of local CSOs and of the FISCAST Network to become active stakeholders in the municipal financial transparency processes;
Specific Objective 2: To improve municipal budget and parafiscal charges transparency;
Specific objective 3: To establish evidence-based, multi-stakeholder policy dialogue for monitoring of financial transparency and building effective municipal policies;
Specific objective 4: To increase public awareness about the benefit that higher transparency, accountability and sustainability have for citizens and businesses, in their roles and capacities to act at the local level.
Duration: January 2021 – July 2023
Donor: European Delegation
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Gender responsive budgeting in times of pandemic
The project aims to improve the position of women and reduce gender inequality in the labor market in the long run. A detailed examination of the use of gender responsive budgeting in active employment measures will provide a basis for designing new measures and models to improve the position of women in the labor market and mitigate the socio-economic consequences of the crisis and / or recommendations for redesign of existing measures in order to design gender-responsive measures that best meet the needs and characteristics of women.
Donor: Center for Research and Policy Making through the Gender Budget Watchdog Network
Timeline: December 2020 – May 2021
Analysis of parafiscal charges in North Macedonia
The objective of the project is to provide analysis of the parafiscal charges for SMEs in North Macedonia, by revieweing the Catalogue of public services and conduct of survey among SMEs.
Provider: Ministry of Economy
Dates: September 2019 – January 2020
Bridging measures to alleviate Covid-19 consequences
The aim of the project is to develop proposed measures to mitigate the consequences of Covid-19, as a form of operationalization of the United Nations document “North Macedonia: UN Covid-19 Response Framework (CRF)”.
Client: UNDP
Duration: July – November 2020
Assessment of the financial implications for the state in the fight against COVID-19
The purpose of this analysis is to assess the financial implications, i.e. the spending of state institutions intended to combat COVID-19.
Contractor: IRI Republican Institute
Duration: April – June 2020
Roma-responsive budgeting in North Macedonia
The aim of the project is to pilot the Roma responsive budgeting guidelines through building capacities of civil servants, selecting budget programs and applying guidelines, resulting in two Roma responsive budgeting submissions to the 2020 budget.
Donor: Regional Cooperation Council
Duration: April – June 2019
Good or bad tax? Reforming Macedonian personal income tax
The overall objective of the project is to assess the effect of the announced tax reform of the personal income tax.
The specific objectives include:
- To assess the impact of the announced tax reform on the poverty, income inequality, employment behaviour and the budget of the country;
- To assess the reflected and expected behaviour of the stakeholders (employers and employees);
- To steer policymakers to make informed decisions based on evidence, data and recommendations;
- To increase public awareness of the potential impact of the announced tax reform.
Donor: Balkan Monitoring Public Finance / Analytica Think Tank
Duration: January – August 2019
Analysis of resources allocated for child-related policies and programs in the Budget of the Republic of Macedonia
The objective of this project proposal is to provide a comprehensive overview of the policies and programs related to children, in Macedonia, and their allocated financial resources by the Government of the Republic of Macedonia, in two mutually-reinforcing programmatic domains: quality of life (social policies) and education.
Donor: UNICEF
Period: June – December 2018