Financed by: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Budget: 2.500.000 CFH
Implementation period: 1. 6. 2020 – 29. 2. 2023.
Beneficiary: Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government
Partners: Public Policy Secretariat (PPS) and Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities
Objective: Systemic reforms aimed at strengthening local self-government in line with the Public Administration Reform Strategy, leading to more efficient local self-government, improved services, participatory-democratic processes, and evidence-based planning at the local level, for the benefit of the citizens of Serbia.
The project is focused on activities in the field of reform of the local self-government, decentralization, capacity building and ensuring better use of resources at the local self-government level for providing services to citizens and business entities in accordance with legal competences, participation and greater participation of citizens, improvement of the electoral system and improvement of the planning system at the local level.
Project activities under Outcome 3 focus on further improvement of the Business Intelligence (BI) system, i.e., the local government unit database, to support evidence-based decision-making and planning; promotion of the BI system and training in its use; as well as support for the preparation of development plans for three pilot local self-governments.
