Workshop on gender-responsive policies with local stakeholders

The workshop “Gender-responsive creation of local programs and budget” for representatives of the public administration and the civil sector from Prilep and Krushevo is being held in Prilep, February 17, 2023.

The workshop is part of the project “Gender-responsible planning at the local level: The case of Prilep and Krushevo”, supported by Reactor Research in Action and partners through the action “Advancement of gender equality in the EU accession process”. The action is financed by the European Union and co-financed by Sweden.

Policy Dialogue on the Food and Energy Crisis

🗣 Today, together with UNICEF MK, we started the dialogue on policies to assess and address the effects of the energy and food crisis. The competent policy holders from the ministries of finance, economy and labor and social policy participate in the consultative process.

Our studies in a research database of the WHO

💾 Part of our research on the economic-social effects of covid-19 published during 2020 and 2021 has been selected as influential and contained in the covid-19 research base of the World Health Organization (WHO).

🔗 bit.ly/3QMcqdU

Presentation of findings at the University of Illinois at Chicago

With the presentation of the research “Transmission mechanism from the public finance management to (better) health and educational outcomes in the Western Balkans”, our Blagica Petreski concluded her stay at the University of Illinois Chicago, within the framework of The Fulbright Program supported by the U.S. Embassy North Macedonia.

Finance Think visited People Powered in New York

Our Blagica Petreski is visiting People Powered – The Global Hub for Participatory Democracy from New York, USA.

With Josh Lerner (pictured), we discussed current collaborative #initiatives and toured several completed Brooklyn projects that are working thanks to the participatory budgeting that the hub promotes and facilitates.

Finance Think is a pioneer in #participatory budgeting in municipalities in North Macedonia. On this topic, follow us in the new initiatives during 2023!

An event for promotion of findings and recommendations was held in Prilep

The event for the promotion of the recommendations from the project “Gender-responsive planning at the local level: The case of Prilep and Krushevo” was held in a varying concept, with the conveying of the recommendations through visualizations.

The project is supported by Reactor – Research in Action and their partners through the action “Advancement of gender equality in the EU accession process”. The action is financed by the European Union and co-financed by Sweden.

Finance Think at a regional conference in Podgorica

Our Maria Bašeska is participating in the Regional Conference “Elephants in the Civic Space”, which is being held in Podgorica, Montenegro, December 20-22, 2022, within the SMART Balkans initiative.

Finance Think at a panel “Macedonian economy is European”

Finance Think is participating in the third panel discussion on the topic “The Macedonian economy is European – mobility, competitiveness, development”, organized by the Secretariat for European Affairs.

Our Blagica Petreski spoke in the second panel dedicated to cluster 3 Competitiveness and inclusive #growth, together with ministers Kreshnik Bekteshi, Jeton Shaqiri, Bisera Kostadinova Stojchevska, Admirim Aliti, and Director of the PRO Sanja Lukarevska.