Building a Public Bee Farm Novi pazar Municipality A Partner and a Leading Executor Business Center

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Building a Public Bee FarmNovi pazar
MunicipalityA Partner and a Leading Executor
Business Center Novi pazar

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PROJECT HISTORY

• A competition for implementing a project titled
  Building Social Capital in Small Communities in
  Unequal Position Autumn, 2002 . PLEDGE Program
• Project beneficiaries
• Project goals
• - to improve the municipal prosperity
• - to create mutual trust in necessitous
  communities
• - to stimulate employment through the
  development of small and medium business
• - to create local partnerships
• - to encourage the community citizens to
  solve the economic problems together

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PROJECT HISTORY

• Local volunteers, representatives of the
  municipal administration, Business Center
  Novi pazar, Labour office Directorate, KNSB
  (Confederation of Independent Syndicates in
  Bulgaria), unemployed and others.
• A training for acknowledgement with the Program
  methodology and for learning how to support and
  coordinate the 18-month process on a local level
• Joint decisions reached by the team of volunteers
  in the beginning of the process
• - acquaintance with the process goals
  60 people
• - motivation of the participants in the
  seminars (education, sport, NGO, unemployed,
  local authority, LOCAL BUSINESS)
• - materials invitations, agenda and a
  profile of Novi pazar municipality

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PROJECT HISTORY

• December 2002, 1st seminar - Factor Analysis-
  48 participants
• January 2003, 2nd seminar - Principles of the
  Economic Revival - 44 participants
• February 2003, 3rd seminar - Generation of
  Project Concepts - 34 participants. 32
  project concepts offered for a selection.
• March 2003, 4th seminar - Evaluation of the
  Project Concepts - 29 participants
• Everybody had the opportunity to evaluate and
  vote for the concept which he supported, as at
  the same time one could objectively evaluate the
  other three concepts too.
• The participants in the seminars and the members
  of the association of bee-keepers sat at one
  table and after long lasting debates they came
  to one conclusive decision to create
• a Public bee farm.

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CONSEQUENT ACTIONS

• Joint work through coming to a consensus
• Distribution of the activities and
  responsibilities
• Collection of the necessary information
• Attending regular meetings for monitoring the
  implemented activities
• A number of meetings with the local partners and
  undertaking engagements with economic and social
  focus
• Taking in mind the opinions of the local business
• Focusing the efforts of almost all members of the
  community for collecting information
• Detailed researches - results
• Developing a Project Proposal

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PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

• Signing a financial agreement with MLSP
• Fulfillment of the previously undertaken
  engagements by the partners
• Municipal Administration (Town Council)
• Acacia Local Association of Beekeepers
  chairman and members
• Labour Office Directorate
• KNSB
• Mobilizing the partners and all interested
  parties in achieving the goals of the BUILDING
  A PUBLIC BEE FARM Project

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• SHORT-TERM GOALS
• Training of 10 unemployed in beekeeping
• Increasing the access to information of present
  and future beekeepers
• Building a public bee farm as a training and
  experimental premises
• Positive example for other groups of producers in
  establishing associations
• LONG -TERM GOALS
• Stimulating the creation of new jobs through
  self-employment
• Provision of unlimited access to specialized
  information
• Created sustainable contact network among the
  beekeepers and the other local partners
• Increasing the interest in Novi Pazar
  Municipality in other donors and investors
• Supporting the development of beekeeping in the
  region

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RESULTS ACHIEVED

• Organized one-day seminar titled The Beekeeping
  new opportunities for business and development
• For the successful implementation of the seminar
  contributed
• Novi pazar Municipality provided a hall for
  conducting the seminar
• The Association of beekeepers - Acacia
  informed and invited all the bee-keepers in the
  municipality
• Labour Office Directorate presented MLSP
  Programs on credits and beekeeping supporting
  programs
• Business Center Novi pazar presented the JOBS
  Project Financial Leasing Scheme

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RESULTS ACHIEVED

• Over 80 consultancy services carried out for
  people interested in beekeeping
• An International Exhibition attended
  contracting Beekeeping Pleven 2004,
• 07 08.02. 2004
• Terrain was exchanged with another one more
  appropriate for beekeeping activities with the
  support of the Town Council
• Developed web site www.pchelin.abcnp.org
• Bid procedures undertaken for the supply of bee
  hives, bee families, beekeeping utilities and
  enclosing fence netting
• Equipped and running bee farm

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RESULTS ACHIEVED

• Organized beekeeping training course for 10
  unemployed people

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RESULTS ACHIEVEDThe trainees (registered in
the Labour Office) were learning the minute
details of beekeeping not only in theory but
also in practice
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RESULTS ACHIEVEDFinally everyone started to
take care of their own bee families
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RESULTS ACHIEVED

• As a project partner, Novi pazar Municipality
  provided skilled workers for the actual
  construction of the bee farm

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RESULTS ACHIEVED

• Operational bee farm with 70 bee hives, 40
  nucleuses and 50 bee families
• Six more bee families produced
• 220 kg bee honey produced
• 5 kg bee wax obtained
• 2 new jobs created (one on full-time and one on
  half-time)

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RESULTS ACHIVED

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For contacts
Novi pazar 1, Oborishte Street Tel. 0537/57
01, 31 68 Fax [phone] E-mail
office_at_abcnp.org Web-site pchelin.abcnp.org