Full Coverage: Macedonia (FYROM)

29.03.2007 Two months after the adoption of GovernmentÂ’s Strategy for Cooperation with the Civil Sector, the majority of NGOs, working on both national and local level remain largely uninformed about the StrategyÂ’s contents.

27.03.2007 The citizens of Macedonia in need of information about processes in the European Union and Macedonian accession can get the required information at the newly established MK-EU Centre, opened yesterday in Skopje.

27.03.2007 Struga, Macedonia, hosted 36 young people from four countries, March 16-25, 2007, who discussed the equal rights and opportunities and active participation of youth in civil society.

23.03.2007 On March 13, 2007, the “Responsibility and Partnership - “Together Against HIV/AIDS” ministerial conference that took place in Bremen, organized by Germany as the current presiding state of the European Union, adopted the declaration by the same name, “Responsibility and Partnership -” Together Against HIV/AIDS”.

22.03.2007 Last week (March 14, 2007) the Roma Information Centre (RIC) was officially opened, located in the facilities of the DROM Roma Centre. RIC will work under the sponsorship and patronage of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies.

20.03.2007 The Akcija Zdruzenska civic association from Skopje, in cooperation with Veles based women activists, organized a forum in Veles, March 15, 2007, to discuss the topic of Gender Equality Policies and Practices in Veles Municipality.

19.03.2007 The newly established www.moh-hsmp.gov.mk web-site on health sector management was prepared under the auspices of the GovernmentÂ’s Health Sector Management Project.

16.03.2007 Starting with March 2007, the Milieukontakt initiated its regional programme “Joint Efforts towards Sustainable Future for Western Balkans”.

09.03.2007 The “Doverba” Ngo, in cooperation with the Foundation Open Society Institute Macedonia (FOSIM), announced, at the press conference held last Wednesday, March 7, the start of the pilot-project for Advocacy of Protection of Human Rights of Drug-Users.

06.03.2007 The Foundation Open Society Institute Macedonia and the Debar NGO Support Centre, on the behalf of the Civic Platform of Macedonia, invite you to participate in the Debar Regional NGO Fair.

06.03.2007 The NGO Infocentre, in cooperation with the GovernmentÂ’s Department for Gender Equality, organized a focus-discussion dedicated to media and gender equality.

01.03.2007 MOST Civic Association presented its publication “My Representative”, which offers findings from the monitoring of the work of MPs in the Sobranie of the Republic of Macedonia for the period August 2006-January 2007. The booklet didn’t aim to analyze the work and behaviour of MPs or comment on them, but to present the pure data as collected.

01.03.2007 Over a period of nine days, the activists of the Youth Education Forum (YEF) collected 10,351 signatures by students for the petition to change student organizing in the country and establish a Student Parliament.