Professional development
With the adoption of the Law on Employees in Autonomous Provinces and Local Self-Government Units in March 2016, normative preconditions were created for establishing a career civil service system for officials employed in the LSG bodies. Normalizing this important area has created the preconditions for establishing a depoliticized, professional, efficient and effective local administration whose employees are able to respond to the challenges that LGUs face in the exercise of their responsibilities. Modernization in terms of local administration professionalization seeks to establish a system that will enable transparent recruitment, career development, professional development and promotion of a merit-based officer.
The Law on Employees in Autonomous Provinces and Local Self-Government Units stipulates that professional development is the right and duty of an official to acquire knowledge and skills, i.e. the ability to perform workplace jobs in accordance with the needs of the employer.
| Professional development means any form of education and/or training aimed at maintaining existing or acquiring new knowledge and skills of employees in local self-government units, necessary for carrying out existing or future duties and tasks arising from a particular job or occupation. In the context of contemporary human resources management, LGU employees have the right to professional development, through vocational training, professional development and additional education. At the same time, employees have an obligation to engage their skills, knowledge and abilities for the benefit of the administration and development of the entire community, as well as to share them with colleagues.
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One of the goals of the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities is to support the establishment of a sustainable system of professional development at the local level and the provision of services that contribute to the development of highly professional, responsible and efficient local self-government.
By decision/accreditation issued by the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government No. 151-00-23/2017-13/22 dated 22/12/2017 the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities becomes an accredited provider of professional development trainings for LGU employees.
During 2019, the SCTM conducted 70 regional accredited trainings intended for representatives of local self-governments.
Accredited training programs to be implemented by SCTM in 2020:
- Protection of personal data and confidentiality of information
- E-Government
- Development and implementation of LSG development plans
- Introduction to spatial and urban planning
- Managing the normative process and drafting LS legal acts
- Implementation of the Law on Tourism and the Law on Catering
- Public private partnership in local self-government
- Gender budgeting
- Public procurement in LSG
- Prevention of abuse at work - mobbing
- Implementation of the salaries system of civil servants and employees in the LSG
- Prevention of abuse at work - mobbing
- Local public transport management and sustainable urban mobility
- Development, implementation and monitoring of measures for social inclusion of Roma at the local level
- Protecting patients' rights
- Environmental planning and management in local self-government
- Public property management in LSG
- Municipal inspection
- Civil protection
- Establishment and development of international cooperation between towns and municipalities and sources of financing
In addition to the accredited training provided by the Sectoral Continuing Professional Development Program, the SCTM also organizes a large number of workshops for local self-government employees, always carefully selecting current topics that are an effective response to the needs of local employees.
Since 2014, an online training platform has been established within the SCTM: http://elearning.skgo.org/
Since then, 15 e-trainings have been implemented on the following topics, which were successfully attended by 4,500 participants:
- Local economic development
- Decentralization and the system of local self-government in Serbia
- Good governance and gender equality
- Financial management and control at the local level
- Capacity building of local inspection services
- Asylum and migration
- Local self-government system and application of the principles of good governance
- Good governance in the field of environmental protection at the local level
- Human resources management
- Implementation of the Law on General Administrative Procedure in Local Self-Government
- Good local governance
- Sectoral approach to LED, accredited online training
- Professional development training, accredited online training
- Good local governance, accredited online training
- Gender equality at the local level
The trainings and workshops we organize can be tailored to different target groups or combined into multi-day trainings, and the materials can be used as a basis for further work to address the specific needs and requirements of participants.
The trainings are delivered by trainers/experts with years of experience in working with local self-government. The SCTM base of trainers and experts is currently made up of more than 150 experts in different fields of functioning of local self-government.
In addition to the aforementioned trainings, as part of the implementation of numerous projects with local and international partners and donor organizations, the SCTM participates in the implementation of trainings in other areas of importance for the successful functioning of local self-government.
We are also open to various other initiatives and ideas regarding the professional development of local self-government employees.