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Civil Society and public private partnership in
the EU Integration process

• Danka Latkovic
• Office for the Cooperation with NGOs Government
  of the Republic of Montenegro
• Regional conference Through cooperation
  towards Integration
• 7-10. October 2007.

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Main steps up to now

• Basis of the cooperation of the Government of
  Montenegro with NGOs (May 2006)
• Appointment of contact persons for cooperation
  with NGOs in ministries and other relevant state
  institutions
• Establishment of the Office for the cooperation
  with NGOs as an organizational part of General
  Secretariat of the Government of Montenegro
• Establishment of the inter-ministerial working
  team for preparation of the draft version of
  Strategy for Cooperation between Government of
  Montenegro and NGOs

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Basis of the Cooperation - goals

• Building the democratic, open society and mutual
  cooperation in developing of european integration
  process
• Developing mutual cooperation, conserving
  independence and improving transparency and
  importance of NGOs
• Creating partnership between NGOs and state
  institutions
• Accomplishing and further improving
  complementarity and interaction, to aimed at more
  efficient social development
• Creating of different institutional mechanisms
  for improving and further developing of
  cooperation and mutual comunication
• Improving the working conditions of NGOs.

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Basis of the Cooperation- principles

• Partnership
• Transparency
• Responsability
• Mutual informing
• Independence of NGOs

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Basis of the Cooperation- form of cooperation

• Consulting
• Advising
• Joint activities
• Common assessment on the Government s results in
  all areas
• Developing of the normative preconditions for
  functioning of NGOs

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Administratives mechanisms

• Network of contact persons for cooperation with
  NGOs in ministries and other state institutions
  (from May 2006, MIEREI from 2004)
• Office for cooperation with NGOs (February 2007)
• Appointment of the Head of the Office (March
  2007)
• Inter-ministerial team for preparing of the draft
  version of the Strategy for Cooperation between
  Government of Montenegro and NGOs (May 2007)

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Preparing of the Strategic document

• Coalition NGOs Through cooperation towards
  goals - Strategy for Cooperation between
  Government of Montenegro and NGOs (March 2007)
• Inter-ministerial team

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Legislative framework

• Law on NGOs (1999 / amended 2002)
• Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on NGOs
  (September 2007)
• Law on Games on Chance
• Draft Law on Amendments to Law on Games on Chance
  (July 2007)
• Law on Public Administration, Law on Local
  Self-Government...

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Financing of NGOs

• Commission of the Parliament of the Republic of
  Montenegro (Public announcement)
• Commission of the Government of the Republic of
  Montenegro (Public announcement)
• Ministries and other state institutions (joint
  projects funded by international organizations)
• Local Self -Government (Public announcement)
• Financing the work of NGOs on strategic documents
  of the Government and NGOs Coalition

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Joint activities of the Governmental Office for
Cooperation with NGOs and NGOs

• Project Intership with NGO CDT
• Publication Guidlines through the Government of
  Montenegro with NGO CDT
• Project The Young and institutions with NGO
  Novi horizonti
• Project Capacity building of civil servants for
  cooperation with NGOs - with NGO CRNVO

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