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Title: Implementation of Poverty Reduction Strategy at a Local Level


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Implementation of Poverty Reduction Strategy at a
Local Level
  • STANDING CONFERENCE
  • OF TOWNS AND MUNICIPALITIES
  • Bela Crkva, 20 September 2006

2
STANDING CONFERENCE OF TOWNS AND MUNICIPALITIES
  • National Association of Local Governments an
    association of all towns and municipalities based
    on membership and voluntariness
  • Bodies of SKGO
  • - Assembly
  • - Presidency
  • - President
  • - Secretary General
  • - Ten boards
  • - Monitoring board

3
PRS Roles and duties of local governments
  • Responsibility of local governments for better
    living conditions of their citizens
  • Implementation of strategic documents at local
    level
  • Strengthening of the role of local governments in
    the process of EU Integration
  • Towns and municipalities - the key partners in
    implementation of PRS

4
Challenges of the PRS implementation at the local
level
  • Insufficiently developed capacities for strategic
    and operational planning
  • Lack of resources for implementation of
    plans/strategies
  • Differing approaches of donors and institutions
    lacking coordination
  • Creation of parallel mechanisms (donors)
  • Bodies stipulated by the Law (e.g. local
    employment councils) are inoperative
  • Insufficient exchange of best practices
  • Donors tend to bypass small and underdeveloped
    municipalities
  • Cities and municipalities do not have ownership
    of property

5
PRS implementation at local level
  • Strategy of Local Sustainable Development adopted
    by SKGO (towns and municipalities), incorporating
    the recommendations from PRS
  • Some 10 municipalities initiated drafting of a
    Strategy of Sustainable development
  • Network of small and insufficiently developed
    municipalities (at SKGO, in cooperation with
    CLDS, PRS Implementation Focal Point)
  • An initiative Joint Support to Local
    Governments initiated

6
Joint Support to Local Governments aims of the
program
  • Capacity building of local governments for
    impending fiscal decentralization
  • Improved processes of budget planning and
    execution
  • Harmonization of approaches, mechanisms and
    resources at a local level
  • Strategic and operational planning towards a
    sustainable socio-economic development in each
    municipality
  • and, planning and implementation of projects

7
What does the Joint Support to Local Governments
provide for?
  • The Project provides for consolidation of donor
    and national resources for PRS implementation at
    a local level
  • For a start EAR, SDC, Ministry of Foreign
    Affairs of Norway
  • The resources will be allocated to the process of
    drafting strategic plans and implementation
    thereof
  • Funding of projects on the basis of operational
    planning at a local level
  • Project submitted to the Ministry of Finance
    (proposal submitted for the National Investment
    Plan -NIP)
  • Cooperation of local governments and partners at
    a local level key factor of PRS implementation
    success in the period ahead

8
Initiators of the Joint Support to Local
Governments
  • Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities
  • PRS Implementation Focal Point
  • Ministry of Finance
  • Ministry for Foreign Economic Relations
  • European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR)
  • Switzerland through SDC
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of
    Norway

9
International partners align their activities
with PRS
  • PRS and the process of EU Integration are a
    framework for harmonization of donor assistance
    at a local level
  • Ongoing implementation of several programs funded
    by international donors (EU, USA, Norway, Great
    Britain, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Sweden, UN
    agencies, etc) towards poverty reduction. Total
    value of programs exceeding EUR 40 million
  • Continuous harmonization of donor approach at a
    local level is essential

10
Topics for discussion
  • Capacity building for planning at municipal level
  • Securing resources for implementation of
    plans/strategies
  • Joint activities of the Government and SKGO in
    promotion of a unified approach of donors and
    institutions to initiatives at a local level
  • Avoid creating parallel mechanisms and bodies
  • Establish bodies for implementation of strategic
    documents (development, social policy...) at a
    local level
  • Stimulate exchange of best practices
  • Give additional support to small and
    underdeveloped municipalities
  • Give property back to towns and municipalities

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  • www.skgo.org
  • Makedonska 22/VIII
  • Tel 011/3223-446
  • Faks 011/3221-215
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