Formal and informal ways of cooperation between local NGOs and local authorities

In hotel Kristal Palace on 23th and 24th February was held the fifth workshop for formal and informal ways of cooperation between representatives of local associations and local authorities.

The workshop was attended by representatives of associations of citizens belonging to the Roma community and representatives of municipality of Prilep, representatives from local schools, Roma Informative Centre, Centre for Social Welfare, Employment Centre, the Council of Youth and representatives from the Agency for Real Estate Cadastre of municipality of Prilep who participated in identifying specific problems and needs of the citizens in municipality of Prilep.

Working in groups the participants identified problems in the area of social protection, education, employment, discrimination and stereotypes and offered concrete solutions and ideas for overcoming them.

On the second day of the workshop participants through exercises and examples were introduced to ways on how to recognize impaired cooperation and resolving disputes and conflicts in cooperation, and also worked on developing of their communication skills.

The workshop was conducted by two experienced trainers in collaboration with the project team.

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