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UNDP announes a Call for Proposals for launch of grants as a part of the Programme
„Inter-municipal Cooperation for Better Service Provision and EU Accession “

For the purposes of the Programme “Inter-municipal Cooperation for Better Service Provision and EU Accession”, the Office of the United Nations Development Programme is pleased to announce the launch of the Inter-municipal Cooperation  Grant Scheme ”Technical Assistance for Support of Innovations” (TASI).

The objective of the Programme is to contribute to the development of inter-municipal cooperation in support of the achievement of one of the main objectives of decentralization i.e. the efficient provision of affordable and quality public services to citizens and to ensure the institutional and professional capacities needed. Ultimately, the Programme seeks to establish an effective system for supporting inter-municipal cooperation, which could be adopted and expanded by the government through its own policies and resources.

To support the replication process of the existing practices, UNDP in cooperation with the Ministry of Local Self-Government in RM is launching an Inter-Municipal Cooperation “Technical Assistance for Support of Innovations Scheme” intending to assist mainly small and rural municipalities, but also other municipalities that are in need of specific types of development assistance.

The IMC “Technical Assistance for Support of Innovations” grant scheme will support municipalities in the establishment and operation of inter-municipal cooperation in the following areas:

-      Social and child protection

-      Environment and nature protection

The duration of a single project under this grant scheme will be 6 (six) months. The amount available for this call of the TASI is 5.000.000 MKD. Municipalities can apply for IMC projects for a grant of 500.000 to 750.000 MKD. One municipality can participate in only one project proposal. The amount will be transferred to the successful municipalities in two installments.

Municipalities interested in applying for the IMC “Technical Assistance for Support of Innovation scheme” are invited to obtain TASI Operational Guidelines for Applicants and an Application Form from UNDP IMC Programme Office:

UNDP Inter-municipal Programme Office

Vasil Glavinov 3/1-1, 1000, Skopje

(Gradski Dzid, above “Dijagnosticki Centar”)

or download it from the following websites:

Applications must be received in a sealed envelope by registered mail, private courier service or by hand-delivery (a signed and dated certificate of receipt will be given to the deliverer) to the attention of:

UNDP IMC Programme Office

Vasil Glavinov 3/1-1, 1000, Skopje

(Gradski Dzid, above “Dijagnosticki Centar”)

Applications must be received no later than 15 September 2010 at 1700hrs. Applications received after the deadline will not be eligible for consideration. Projects selected for funding will be notified by 30 September 2010.

IMC Grant Documents - Social and child protection:

Operational guidelines

Application form

IMC Grant Documents - Environment and nature protection:

Operational guidelines

Application form
 
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Training on communication skills for the members of the commission to record the illegally built
objects

Within the frames of the projedt for Inter Municipal Cooperation “Keeping record of the illegally built objects in the municipalities of Stip and Karbinci” within the facilities of Stip municipality a three day training on communication skills has been conducted for the members of the commission to record the illegally built objects. Ten person attended the training, the Law on property and other rights as well as the estimation of the value of real estate according to the methodology for determining the market value of the real estate  being covered on the first day. The second day of the training was reserved for explaining the Law on construction land while the third day was intended for the Practical Experiences from the Field Action to Estimate the Property Tax (communicating with со applicants , identification of illegal constructions, reading of property-record-ownership documents, reading the decisions for registering in the на решенија за премер и упис во land registry etc.).

After the completion, the ten persons that attended the training received Contracts for Temporary Employment for the needs of the Project and started with the preparatory work for going out on the field.

Also the works for developing a software – Register for the Illegal Objects started, that could be used by other interested municipalities as well.
 
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logo-engАs a result of the decentralization reform, Municipalities have received increasing number of competencies from the central government, which generated immense volume of responsibilities and tasks for the Municipalities, however, setting the grounds for a number of public services to be locally delivered to citizens.

Under conditions of lack of sufficient financial, administrative and HR capacities, especially smaller Municipalities, face difficulties to autonomously implement the assigned tasks and efficiently deliver public services.

To overcome some of the existing deficiencies, the Municipalities can enter and do enter, into Inter-municipal cooperation arrangements/partnerships and thus facilitate their economies of scale and provide higher quality and more efficient services for the citizens.

Inter-municipal Cooperation (IMC) can be defined as an arrangement between two or more local authorities for accomplishing common goals, providing a service or tackling with a mutual problem.

The IMC is regulated with the newly adopted Law on Inter-municipal Cooperation.

 
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