Selection of the best project completed through the Exchange 3 grant scheme

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities invites towns and municipalities that have implemented projects through the Exchange 3 grant scheme to apply to the contest for the best Exchange 3 town/municipal project.

Through this activity, the Delegation of the European Union and the SCTM wish to stress the need to strengthen the capacity of local authorities to continue to participate in the process of decentralization in line with EU standards and improve services and stimulate local development of towns and municipalities in Serbia in accordance with their evolving capacities.

Completed projects can compete in the following categories:

1. Management at the local level
   (good governance and municipal management, municipal finance, social services, municipal services)
2. Utilities
   (Environmental protection, living environment, utilities)
3. Local economic development
   (Spatial planning, local economic development)

Criteria for the selection of the best projects:

• Performance - implementation of planned activities, as well as solutions of the problem
• Transparency - public participation in the planning and project implementation
• Applicability - application of the project results in other towns and municipalities
• Sustainability - assessment of the degree of financial sustainability of the project results
• Awareness - the degree of awareness of citizens through promotional activities held

Duration of the contest:

25 September - 16 October 2012.

Instructions for submitting the application:

1. Application form should be filled out, signed and certified by the seal of the town/municipality
2. Application form should be signed exclusively by Mayor
3. Information on BEST PRACTICES should be filled in the electronic form and sent with a certified scanned application to e-mail: exchange@skgo.org

* Manually completed applications will be automatically excluded from the competition.

The best project from each of the three categories for which an application can be submitted will be presented at the ceremony marking the completion of the EXCHANGE 3 Programme.

Details of the competition, as well as application form for participation can be found on the website of the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities, www.skgo.org, and EXCHANGE 3 Programme, www.exchange.org.rs.