The Belgrade Open School, together with the local partner organization – the Vojvodina Environmental Movement, in the past period has worked on the development of the contribution to the local Development Plan of the Municipality of Sremski Karlovci. The document is a proposal for the part of the Local Development Plan of Sremski Karlovci in the field of environment. It was developed to support local self-government process of drafting the Local Development Plan, which was established by the new Law on the Planning System of the Republic of Serbia as an obligation for all local self-governments in Serbia. Local development plans should be aligned with the 2030 Agenda as an umbrella document for sustainable development at the global lever. Therefore, the part the local Development Plan related to the environment, which is included in the contribution, refers to the sustainable development goals: 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, and 15.
The document was created by an accredited expert in cooperation with the project team of the Belgrade Open School and the local partner organization – the Vojvodina Environmental Movement, with consultation of all stakeholders for the local environment. In the past period, two consultative meetings were held in Sremski Karlovci in order to gather comments and guidelines from representatives of local self-government, local institutions, non-governmental organizations, academia, business sector, media, and other stakeholders. During the consultation process and the drafting of the document, special attention was paid to the principle of Leave No One Behind, or efforts in practice to treat all social groups equally and to be included in the process, as well as to keep no one’s interests aside. The contribution to the Local Development Plan of the Municipality of Sremski Karlovci in the field of environment was submitted to the local self-government of Sremski Karlovci.
The document was developed within the framework of the Sustainable Development for All platform supported by the Governments of Switzerland and Germany, and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. The project partners are the Belgrade Open School, the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence, the Center for Advanced Economic Studies, the Ana and Vlade Divac Foundation, the Center for Democracy Foundation, and the Timoc Youth Center.