CIL Serbia organised a workshop on Strategic planning for organisations of Disabled people ob June 21, 2018.

The idea of workshop was to review development of DPOs from their beginnings until today and their plans for the future.

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CIL Serbia held its Annual Assembly and Executive Board meeting in Belgrade, 20th of June. There were representatives from eight CIL local branches.

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Representatives from17 CSOs from Dimitrovgrad, Kragujevac, Paracin and Sabac signed Contracts on financing their projects. This is Regional Programme for Local Deomocracy in West Balkan, funded by EU, implemented through UNDP. Programmee is aimed to introducing and spreading transparent funding for CSOs in local communities in Serbia.

Project in Sabac, piloting the personal assistance as social service for people with disability will implement Center for Independent Living Serbia in cooperation with Association of Paraplegics and Association of Blind from Sabac.

This year IL Day was marked in all of ten local CILs within CIL Serbia network.

The first activities were on 4th of May – tribune in Belgrade, Bor, Kragujevac and Leskovac. On May 5th there were street performances in Trstenik, Cacak and Nis, and today there will be tribunes in Jagodina and Sombor. 

 The survey took place in period 19 January-4 Maarch 2018 as part of the project “User-led Personal Assistance in EU”, conducted by TEodor Mladenov in the framework of a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship hosted by ENIL.

More on 

http://enil.eu/news/what-is-good-personal-assistance-made-of-first-look-at-the-answers/ 

On Thursday, January 18th 2018, Center for Independent Living Serbia, as service provider, signed Contract with City of Cacak as municipality who will provide financial support for this service.

Persona assistance service will cover 15 users/personal assistance in this year period and this is great news in for social protection field.

On December 22 th  2017, CIL Serbia hosted meeting of Executive Board of BIDF. There were partner representatives from  Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia. Meeting agenda was dedicated to previous activities and further plans.

“Terminate poverty everywhere and in all forms” is the first goal of sustainable development, highlighted within the new global agenda for UN Sustainable Development until 2030.

In 2016, as initial year for development monitoring defined by the Sustainable Development Goals, there was 3.6% of the extremely poor in Serbia (persons with household consumption was at the level of 90% of the absolute poverty line), 7.3% of the poor according to the absolute poverty line consumption below the poverty line amounting to RSD 11,694), 25.4% were at risk of poverty, and 38.7% were at risk of poverty and social exclusion. Both the risk of poverty and the risk of poverty and social exclusion have almost double the rate in Serbia than the average for EU members.

The groups which are at highest risk of poverty are unemployed persons, single parents, persons living alone, children and young people, Roma, internally displaced persons, persons with disability, old people without a pension. These are official statistics.

Report “Caution, poverty! – Monitoring the poverty within the UN Development Agenda until 2030, created by the European Network against Poverty – Serbia, monitors sustainable development goals through available official data.

The network reminds the public that Serbia was one of the most active countries in global consultations for defining the goals of sustainable development, and that even two years after the adoption of these goals, the Government of the Republic of Serbia did not adopt the specific national goals of sustainable development, nor the sub-targets related to poverty reduction.

CIL Serbia as network of local CIL branches got new member in Trstenik. Founding Assembly was held on October 13th in Trstenik and this is 10th CIL local branch.

CIL Serbia will manage Personal Assistant Service in Irig Municipality until the end of 2017. This is the continuation of IPA project that Irig Municipality finished this September. CIL Serbia trained personal assistants in Irig in 2016.

How can local authorities include social groups who other­wise lack a voice? How can citizens be included efficiently and sustainably in decision-making processes in non-election years? This course examines the ways in which local authorities can ensure citizen participation in decision-making processes. We will discuss the ways in which citizens can make their voices heard and exercise their statutory rights.

That was the theme of final workshop held in Belgrade 26-29 September 2017, for participants from Macedonia, Ukraine, Kosovo, Georgia and Serbia.

This is project Local Governance with a Rights Based Approach funded by  –  SIDA (Swedish International Center for Local Democracy). CIL representatives Milena Stojanovic and Mimica Zivadinovic presented the work of Center for Independent Living Serbia regarding persons with disability.