Civil society organizations involved in the project (i.e. representative trade unions dealing with work-related and labor-related issues and CSOs dealing with youth employability issues) do not have enough capacity to strategically approach the process of public advocacy of specific solutions for the improvement of individual public policies, which are based on research and evidence, transparency and accountability of the authorities in the decision-making process for the improvement of these public policies, but also on the inclusion of civil society agents in this process. In the process of creating public policies in Serbia, there is a lack of pluralism in the solutions that will enable more efficient problem resolution and a more transparent decision-making process.
Project objective:
Establishing a transparent, inclusive and accountable policy-making process in Serbia.
Empowering civil society organizations to publicly advocate practical-political issues, based on evidence, transparency and inclusiveness in decision-making.
Activities:
- Mentorship in policy-making process with specific recommendations for improving public policies;
- Mentorship in creating strategic frameworks for public advocacy campaigns for applying the recommendations from their policy papers;
- Mentoring and overseeing the implementation of the advocacy campaign.
The P4OCD project is running from March 1, 2014. This is the third phase of the implementation of projects supporting 10 civil society organizations in the field of policy-making and implementation. The project is supported by Solidar Suisse Serbia.