Frontline Workers – Women, Trade Unions and the Crisis
Why do we need trade unions? How can we increase the participation of women in trade unions and provide them with support during the current crisis, which has rendered the role of women in the labour market particularly vulnerable? Report from our online workshop held 17 July 2020. 41 participants partook in the workshop. According to the latest data from the Monitoring report on measures introduced during the state of emergency in the areas of social policies and employment, public health and consumer protection and education prepared by the National Convention on the European Union (NCEU), a staggeringly large number…
Urgent Identification of Measures to Aid Vulnerable Groups Left Unemployed and Incomeless During the State of Emergency
A monitoring report prepared by the National Convention on the European Union (NCEU) was published on measures introduced during the state of emergency in the areas of social policies and employment, public health and consumer protection and education The National Convention on the European Union (NCEU) published a Monitoring Report on measures introduced during the state of emergency in the areas of social policies and employment, public health and consumer protection and education. The Center for Democracy Foundation participated in the drafting of this document in the name of the National Convention Working Group – Working Group for the Negotiations…
Nataša Vučković speaking at ALDA Webinar on Local Authorities in EU Accession
Towards ALDA 2020: Western Balkans’ local authorities in EU accession and Berlin process "Local authorities play an absolutely crucial role in achieving EU policy objectives and […] making sure that those policies are understood, valued and developed at the local level"! The third webinar in 20th anniversary series was moderated by ALDA Director of Skopje office & SEE Regional Programmes Coordinator Ivana Petrovska, with introductory and conclusive speeches of ALDA President Oriano Otočan and ALDA Secretary General Antonella Valmorbida and the interventions of Andrej Zernovski (Deputy Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia); Colin Wolfe (Head of Unit WB…
The Pandemic and its Consequences
Author: Dragoljub Mićunović The Covid-19 virus has swept the globe, moving from continent to continent and taking with it the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, attacking the organisms of millions, instilling fear in billions of our planet’s inhabitants. Where has this mass hysteria caused by Corona come from when the fatality rate of those who catch the virus is significantly less than with other illnesses? Despite the fact that Corona has yet to come to the end, numerous comments and analyses on the subject have cropped up from all over the globe. It’s as though it shocked the…
The Pandemic and its Consequences
Author: Dragoljub Mićunović The Covid-19 virus has swept the globe, moving from continent to continent and taking with it the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, attacking the organisms of millions, instilling fear in billions of our planet’s inhabitants. Where has this mass hysteria caused by Corona come from when the fatality rate of those who catch the virus is significantly less than with other illnesses? Despite the fact that Corona has yet to come to the end, numerous comments and analyses on the subject have cropped up from all over the globe. It’s as though it shocked the…
Milena Mićović Trajković Rejoins FCD’s Team
FCD Office Manager and Event Organiser We are happy to announce that the activities of the Center for Democracy Foundation will be further strengthened with the new addition to our team of Milena Mićović Trajković, a long time associate who in future will be in charge of running the FCD office in her new role as Office Manager and Event Organiser. Milena has a Master’s degree in management (completed at the Faculty of Organisational Science, gender studies) and has a rich background in project management and organisation, emphasising on education, gender equality, political campaigns, programmes and activities centred around civil…
It is Impossible to Separate Decent Work from Economic Growth
Panel discussion ‘Economic Challenges and Changes in the Labour Market During COVID’ Along with the Center for Advanced Economic Studies (CEVES) acting as partner, we organised one additional discussion, the topic of which arises from the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The discussion, under the title ‘Economic Challenges and Changes in the Labour Market during COVID’ was held on an online format on Wednesday, 1 July 2020, within the ‘Sustainable Development for All’ project with the support of the governments of the Swiss Confederation and the Federal Republic of Germany in cooperation with the Ana and Vlade Divac Foundation…
A Warm Welcome to a New FCD Team Member
Katarina Stojković, FCD Project Financing team member It is a pleasure to introduce to our newest associate at Center for Democracy Foundation – Katarina Stojković, who has joined FCD’s project financing team. Katarina’s background includes an extensive career with a great deal of experience in the areas of telecommunication, job analysis, and finance. She has also worked in corporate and organisational sectors that facilitate civil support programmes. We are certain that Katarina will contribute significantly to the realisation of the Center for Democracy Foundation’s missions and objectives, as well as the promotion of the key values we represent! Center for…
Analysing Bačka Palanka’s Development Policies – Improving Gender Equality
Sarita Bradaš held consultations under the Improving Gender Equality in Serbia project. Center for Democracy Foundation organised a discussion and the analysis of local development policies in Bačka Palaka within the project entitled Improving Gender Equality in Serbia. In consultations held with local self-government representatives, Sarita Bradaš of the FCD sought answers to the following questions: what are the needs of the women living in their local communities and what issues do these women face? to what extent do local governments recognise the needs of particularly vulnerable groups of women? what activities are being undertaken by various local actors to…
Testing Solidarity During the Pandemic
Author: Vesna Marjanović Three months after the declared state of emergency and one month upon its cessation, the Center for Democracy Foundation organised a debate on the subject ‘Solidarity During the Pandemic – Civil Society’s Response in the Local Community’. In line with this topic and the current situation, the debate was held on 15 June in a form made popular during the pandemic – the webinar. This open dialogue allowed for insight into the experiences faced by different civil society organisations during the pandemic in their efforts to provide their local populations with support, and the manner in which…
Testing Solidarity During the Pandemic
Author: Vesna Marjanović Three months after the declared state of emergency and one month upon its cessation, the Center for Democracy Foundation organised a debate on the subject ‘Solidarity During the Pandemic – Civil Society’s Response in the Local Community’. In line with this topic and the current situation, the debate was held on 15 June in a form made popular during the pandemic – the webinar. This open dialogue allowed for insight into the experiences faced by different civil society organisations during the pandemic in their efforts to provide their local populations with support, and the manner in which…
Debate – ‘Solidarity During the Pandemic – Civil Society’s Response in the Local Community’
On 15 June 2020 the Center for Democracy Foundation organised a debate on the subject ‘Solidarity During the Pandemic – Civil Society’s Response in the Local Community’. The debate was organised in the form of a webinar and an open dialogue aiming to collect the experiences faced by different civil society organisations during the pandemic in their efforts to help their local populations, and the manner in which they responded to the challenges which arose from the infectious disease Covid-19, the introduction of the state of emergency and the measures introduced by the Government and the local self-governments. The moderator…
