Specific objectives include:

1. To identify drivers of low female participation in the labor market and female productivity, by producing evidence and generating knowledge;
2. To emphasize the importance of decent jobs, a stimulative environment, working conditions, and systemic support as drivers of productivity and women’s potential, by piloting measures at “Comfy Angel” and in collaboration with the business sector;
3. To stimulate policy dialogue among relevant stakeholders (policymakers, business sector, Federation of Trade Unions);
4. To advocate for policies that enable decent jobs and a stimulative environment that will boost female productivity.

Donor: British Embassy in Skopje

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Client: International Labor Organization

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Donor / Client: Regional Cooperation Council (RCC)

Partners: WEBecon members, led by the founding member CREDI

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Donor: UNICEF

Duration: July 2023 – March 2024

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The specific objectives include:

1. To analyze and monitor budget spending for existing anti-crisis measures, in three segments: 1) measures to protect the standard of citizens, at the national and local level, 2) measures to help companies, 3) measures in the area of agriculture and security food, and in the context of effective and efficient spending of public money;
2. To make proposals for the modification of existing and new measures, based on the need for their targeting and for the rationalization of budget spending in conditions of “expensive money”;
3. To raise public awareness of the need for fiscal consolidation and rational spending of public money in the face of multiple crises.

Donor: Civica Mobilitas

Duration: January – October 2023

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Donor: UNICEF

Duration: December 2023 – March 2024

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Specific objectives include:

• Generating knowledge about how the free movement of (skilled) labor included in the Open Balkan Initiative will affect the labor market in the country;
• Encouraging evidence-based public debate about the benefits and challenges of the issue;
• Contribution to economic policies related to the labor market and bilateral social security agreements, in the context of the implementation of the requirements of this Initiative.

Donor: Foundation Open Society Macedonia

Duration: September 2022 – September 2023

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The activities of the initiative include:

• Workshops and in-person convenings among People Powered member organizations to identify best practices for making participatory democracy inclusive.

• Creation of online courses and resource materials to help organizations implement the best practices.

• Development of multimedia stories that bring to life the human impact of this work, to persuade more governments and organizations to make participation more inclusive.

Donor: People Powered through the National Endowment for Democracy

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More specifically:

• to portray child poverty in terms of demographic and geographic indicators, including a profile of the children who are most at risk of poverty and, consequently, of exclusion;
• to understand how child poverty relates to overall household poverty;
• to investigate non-income aspects of child poverty, primarily education—including early childhood education—and health and set the stage for its multidimensionality; and
• to use generated evidence for increasing the awareness of the public and decision makers on the issue, and for advocacy for tailoring well-targeted policies and measures to improve specific outcomes pertinent to children reducing child poverty in the country.

Client: UNICEF

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Client: UNICEF

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