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Training on financial transparency, parafiscal charges and public procurement

🧑‍🏫 Financial transparency, parafiscal charges and procurement in the municipalities were the topics of the first training of the capacity building program for local stakeholders, delivered by prof. Borce Trenovski. Representatives of local administrations, organizations and activists participated in this dynamic and interactive online session, through which they gained new knowledge, but also discussed existing problems at the local level.The activity is realized by our partner AGORA, within the project for financial transparency of the municipalities, funded by the Delegation of the European Union, Skopje, and implemented by Finance Think, Agora, Quantum Prima and LAG Agro Leader.

Tell us your #champion story

Children who grow up in modest circumstances and who later achieve above-average success – as professionals in business, sports, science, art, medicine, journalism, etc. – are called #champions.

If you are a champion or you know a champion and you want to share the inspiring #story in a video that we will prepare to motivate society to support champions, please fill out the following form: shorturl.at/lJKUW

Our recommendations in the State Department Report

Finance Think has already alerted and made suggestions for some of the findings of the State Department on the investment climate in North Macedonia within Study no. 33: The potential of export-oriented companies to contribute to economic recovery after Covid-19 in North Macedonia, which would overcome the limitations and use the potentials of export-oriented companies in the country.

A successful completion of the event “Inform – Activate – (Self)employ”

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📣 We invite you to a super cool event this Thursday at Kaffeine

Come, find out about existing

active employment measures, take a

photo and share.
* Visitors will receive a voucher for drinks during the event.

We continue the cooperation with the municipalities

The Municipality of Bogovinje is one of the 21 municipalities that will develop a register of #parafiscal charges and will increase financial transparency.
Today, we signed a Memorandum of Cooperation within the project “FISCAST Network – Improving the dialogue for greater financial transparency of municipalities, with a focus on parafiscal charges”, supported by the Delegation of the European Union, Skopje.

Workshop participation within the WeBER 2.0 project

Our Sandra Sokolenko-Todoroska participates in the workshop for grantees within the project WeBER 2.0: Strengthening civil society in the Western Balkans for reformed public administration, which takes place in the period 7-9 July in Mavrovo, organized by the European Policy Institute – EPI.

Read our latest FT Opinion 53 for the intention to introduce 🌎 environmental tax on fuels

1️⃣ The environmental tax will have a one-time short-term effect on the general price level (inflation) which would range from 0.15 to 0.3 percent.
2️⃣ Although relatively small, the price effect should not be neglected. We recommend the environmental tax to be introduced in stages, as follows: 1.5 denars in July 2021, 1 denar in January 2022 and 1 denar in July 2022.
3️⃣ We strongly recommend the creation of a Green Transition Fund that will ensure that the funds are really used to support the green transition.
4️⃣ We recommend that the Government raises the issue of financing the green transition for wider debate and consultation, including on alternative funding models.

Full FT Opinion 53