Cooperation of Municipalities and NGO in DecisionMaking Process

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Co-operation of Municipalities and NGO in
Decision-Making Process

• Dana vihlová

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Objectives

• What we are speaking about key words
• Origins for co-operation
• Problems
• Benefits
• Outcomes

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What are we speaking about?

• Co-operation
• Decision-making process
• Municipality
• NGO

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Co-operation

• Co-operation
• Working together

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Decision making process

• ... is the chain of particular sequences
  following in logical gradation which starts and
  lead from initial impulse through decision, its
  implementation to subsequent control

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Municipality

• Self-government is undertaken by citizens
  through
• municipal bodies
• referendum
• public meeting
• Municipal tasks (object of decision-making
  process)

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Municipality Decision-making bodies

• Local Government
• Mayer
• Local Council
• Committees
• Municipal Authority
• Head of Municipal Authority
• General Auditor

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NGOs

• ...have an institutional structure and behaviour,
  they are separated from state, they use the
  generated benefit for their own development,
  their members are volunteers, their
  decision-making is independent

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Origins for co-operation

• Laws for regulation of activities of
  municipalities and NGOs
• Sectoral laws which regulate the participation in
  decision-making process
• Partnership enforced by circumstances

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Why co-operate?

• ...in interest of local development, the
  municipality co-operates with political parties,
  political movements, NGOs, and other legal and
  physical entities at the local level
• (Act on Municipalities in Slovak Republic)

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Problems

• Selection of task of co-operation
• Complexity of decision-making process
• Selection of proper bodies in decision-making
  process
• Political and private interests
• Different expectation in co-operation

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Benefits

• Resource of information
• Prevention of the conflicts
• Enhancement of decision-making process
• Effective resource management
• Feedback and new initiatives for decision-makings
• Trust of the citizens

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Outcomes

• Both partners have influence on local development
• Both partners represent the local citizens
• Municipality has final responsibility for
  decisions
• Co-operation is process with consensus
• Co-operation should bring benefit to both
  partners

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Thank you for your attention

• Dr. Dana vihlová
• Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University
• Banská Bystrica
• 421 48 446 2016
• dana.svihlova_at_umb.sk