AES Contributed to Public Hearing on the Draft of the National Strategy for Creating an Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development

AES Contributed to Public Hearing on the Draft of the National Strategy for Creating an Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development

jrpBelgrade, July 2015. The Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government, in cooperation with The Office for cooperation with civil society on 29th of July in Belgrade, in the Deputies’ Club, organized a public hearing on the Draft National Strategy for creating an enabling environment for civil society development in the Republic of Serbia for the period 2015-2019, which was attended by over a hundred representatives of civil society organization and state institutions. After the introductory part of the public debate, the consultants hired to develop the Strategy, presented the section of the Strategy and the measures and activities envisaged in the accompanying Action Plan, and open a dialogue with the present representatives of civil society organizations and institutions of state administration. During several hours of dynamic discussion, participants addressed a number of useful comments, criticisms and suggestions, both within individual chapters and sectoral policies, and in terms of the process of creating the Strategy and its potential for further development of civil society in Serbia. The representative of the Adult Education Society presented the current activities of the organization that coincide with most of the activities envisaged by the Action Plan in the section “Non-formal education” and asked what concrete measures of support the Republic of Serbia will provide to the civil sector which implements part of the activities in the field of responsibilities of the institutions of the Republic, as envisage by this Strategy.