Projects
Fostering Good Governance and Public Administration Reform (second phase)
The project aims to maintain good governance at the top of the political agenda. The project interventions are designed to analyze current state of affairs in several areas related to the accountability as one of the top priorities in the PAR agenda, such as: improving transparency and accountability of public institutions; responsibility for delivery of results and improving the supervision of the public in the implementation of the recommendations by the key institutions and greater efficiency, effectiveness and functionality of the institutions. As accountability in modern government is a key component of democracy, the continuation of the project will keep the focus on the principles of good governance ensuring that elected officials are held responsible for their actions, especially undertaking structural reforms and building a strong and effective public administration.
Period 01.07.2023 - 30.09.2025
Donor: National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
Project beneficiary: Institutions from the public sector,
Employees in the public sector.
Main goal:
1. To embed good governance practices in the institutions for the benefit of the citizens
2. To engage decision makers to undertake measures for increasing accountability due to increased public pressure to put good governance at the top of the political agenda by including good governance measures in all strategic policies of the Government.
Expected results:
- Conducting desk research and analysis of current legal framework in selected area of PAR, identify current bottle-necks and challenges in implementation of regulation, analysis the work of institutions. Developing research methodologies and conducting in-depth research on specific topics.
- Monitoring processes and research on the work of the institutions in the specific areas related to good governance and public administration reform, the project aims to extend the intervention in 6 more areas, resulting in at least 6 monitoring reports.
- Propose practical recommendations for improvements and further governance reforms
- Organizing consultations with relevant institutions on the process of implementation of reforms in the administration and their effects.
- Organizing presentation of the findings and initiating wider public debate about importance of accountability of public institutions
- Promotion and dissemination of the findings and reports created within the framework of the project
- Awareness raising about the pending issues in the selected monitored areas, with the content and findings in the reports and to advocate more media coverage of reform processes.
Project publications
Video
Guest appearance of the CCM team on the show 25 minutes
The CCM team, Irena Bojadzievska (researcher) and Dimitar Vrglevski (project assistant), were part of the new show on "25 Minutes". In their guest appearance, they reviewed various aspects of the transparency of public sector institutions.
The focus was on the challenges in implementing the open data policy and the need to provide free access to current issues of the Official Gazette.
CCM recently published a public policy document entitled "Is the rule of law possible with a commercial official gazette". The document highlights the need to remove the subscription fee for access to current issues of the Official Gazette, where laws and other general legal acts of the state are published, and you can read the document at the following link https://cup.org.mk/publication/public-policy-document-is-the-rule-of-law-possible-with-a-commercial-official-gazette .
Guest appearance by Aneta Ivanova Stojanoska project coordinator at the Center for Change Management on the podcast "Reshtazi"
Aneta Ivanova Stojanoska, project coordinator at the CCM, was part of the new episode of the podcast "Reshtazi", where the focus was on transparency in the work of public sector institutions. The project coordinator's presentation focused on the public policy document that the CCM published in the past period, entitled "Is the rule of law possible with a commercial official gazette". You can read the document at the following link https://cup.org.mk/publication/public-policy-document-is-the-rule-of-law-possible-with-a-commercial-official-gazette.
Dimitar Vrglevski from CUP in an interview on TV Sloboden Pechat
Dimitar Vrglevski from CCM in the program on "Sloboden Pechat" on the occasion of CCM's research on the discretionary powers of the Municipalities and the procedures for paid political advertising in election processes, the way of their use and the risk of corruption.
Branka Mincheva Kocevska from CCM in an interview on TV Sloboden Pechat
The CCM project coordinator Branka Mincheva Kocevska in an interview on TV Sloboden Pechat on the occasion of the research on the transparency and accountability of public sector institutions and the optimization of public administration.
