“Local public mediator in District Pazardjik – guarantee for anticorruption politic on local level. Advocacy campaign for influence on the practice of their institutionalizing"
Project “Local public mediator in District Pazardjik – guarantee for anticorruption politic on local level. Advocacy campaign for influence on the practice of their institutionalizing
Project “Local public mediator in District Pazardjik – guarantee for anticorruption politic on local level. Advocacy campaign for influence on the practice of their institutionalizing”
Implementation period:
20. 03. 2006 y. – 20.09. 2006 y.
Source of Funding:
TRUST for civil society in Central and
Main objectives:
Institutionalizing of public mediators at least in three municipalities; - improving the capacity of the civic organizations in Pazardjik District for implementation of advocacy campaign.
Results achieved:
Prepared report – analysis of the situation, information for the stages for election of local ombudsmen in the chosen Municipalities of District Pazardjik reached and the attitude among the public; - Prepared Strategic plan for advocacy campaign; - Created Coalition of NGOs; - Increased capacity of the Coalition to work on the problems of corruption; - Carried out conference for introduction of the results from the campaign; - Prepared report for the results from the advocacy campaign; - 10 publications and participations in the media; - Prepared 3 statute-books about the activity of the public mediators; - Three chosen public mediators; - Carried out round table in support of the choice of local public mediator; - Produced leaflets to popularize the role and the activity of the local public mediators; - Produced newsletter “Public activity against the corruption”.
NEWS
DPCC with new chairman
On working meeting of the Coalition “Civil Activity against Corruption” (CAAC) and District Public Council Against Corruption (DPCC) on 15th of September were discussed the results from the made corruption signals and the future activities of DPCC. In spite of the end of the projects, in the frames of which functionalizing the District council until now, its members decided to continue their activity.DPCC chose a new chairman – Dimitar Petkov – District advisor and member of Association “International initiatives and partnerships”. The members of “CAAC” and DPCC listened also report for the activity on project “Local public mediator in District Pazardjik – guarantee for anticorruption politic on local level. Advocacy campaign for influence on the practice of their institutionalizing”, which will finish this days. Marina Manolcheva – Executive Director of Fund – IGA and Dimitar Rusinov – Program Director acquainted the present with starting projects of the organization, in the frames of which will be possible to realize some of the activities of “CAAC” and the District Public Council against Corruption in the next two years. The decision was taken about in the beginning of October the District Public Council against Corruption to make public the results from its activity on press-conference. |
The anti-corruption instruments on Municipality level were made clear on seminar
Seminar themed “Anti-corruption instruments on Municipality level” was carried out on 28th of July in the resort “Tsigov chark”. The training was in the frames of project “Local public mediator in District Pazardjik – guarantee for anticorruption politic on local level. Advocacy campaign for influence on the practice of their institutionalizing” of Fund – IGA. Participation in the forum took representatives of “Civil Activity against Corruption” Coalition, members of District Public Council against Corruption (DPCC), the Deputy- district Governor Ivan Avramov, the mayor of Rakitovo Municipality Dimitar Andonov, Municipality councilors from Rakitovo, Pazardjik and |
The Regulations of the public governor in Belovo is accepted
On their regular session at Thursday (29.06.06) the public councilors of Belovo adopted Regulations for the activity of the public governor of Municipality Belovo, thus beginning the procedure for election of local public mediator. Only a month after her appointment the chairwoman of the Public council Violeta Zadreva took responsibly the engagement towards the project of the previous chairman, and succeeded to make the first step towards the institutionalizing of local public mediator. The Municipality is a partner of Fund – IGA together whit the Municipalities Bratsigovo and Rakitovo on project “Local public mediators in District Pazardjik – guarantee for anticorruption politic on local level. Advocacy campaign for influence on the practice of their institutionalizing”. |
Local ombudsmen and municipal councilors gathered at a round table in Bratsigovo
On the 20th of June a round table meeting was held in Bratsigovo on theme” Local ombudsmen in Pazardzhik district- regulation of clear and effective rules for interaction between citizens and administration officials” . The event was carried out within a project of Fund – IGA on electing local ombudsmen in three municipalities in Pazardzhik district (Bratsigovo, Belovo and Rakitovo)- “Local ombudsmen in Pazardzhik district- safeguarding local anti-corruption policy. Advocacy campaign to bring influence on the practice for their institutionalizing. “, funded by Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe Trust and Open Society Institute –Sofia Host of the round table meeting was the chairman of the municipal council Gruycho Slavchev. Chairman of the Municipal Counicil of Pazardzhik and Belovo, Todor Popov and and Violeta Zadreva, mayor of Bratsigovo municipality dr. Sonya Misheva, municipal councilors and members of the municipal administration of Belovo municipality , ombudsmen of Pazardzhik district and representatives of Civil Activity against Corruption Coalition took part in the event. Main lecturer at the round table meeting was Antoaneta Tsovena- the first ombudsman of the |
Advocacy campaign will support the choice of local public mediators Today in the office of Fund – IGA was carried out the first working meeting on the newest project of the organization “Local public mediator in District Pazardjik – guarantee for anticorruption politic on local level. Advocacy campaign for influence on the practice of their institutionalizing”, whose aim is the institutionalizing of three more public mediators in District Pazardjik – in Municipalities Bratsigovo, Rakitovo and Belovo. Participation in it took the chairman of the Municipality council – Bratsigovo Gruicho Slavchev, the deputy chairman of Municipality council – Belovo Argir Tsvetanski, the technical secretary of Municipality council Rakitovo Elena Dobcheva, the public mediator of Municipality Lesichovo Maria Dimitrova and Nedelka Prejdarova – chairwoman of the District Public Council against Corruption and Civil mediator of District Pazardjik. |
Project for institutionalizing of local Municipality mediators is starting
The local Municipality mediators in District Pazardjik – guarantee for the anticorruption policy on local level. Advocacy campaign to influence the practice of their institutionalizing” is the newest project of Fund – IGA, started recently. It won competition for funding of activities within advocacy for effective change and influence of local public politics. The competition is part of the project “Strategy for stronger stability of the nongovernmental sector in Bulgaria”, funded from Trust for civil society in Central and East Europe, announced from the Institute “Open society” – Sofia, jointly whit Foundation for local government reform, Foundation „Inter-ethnic initiative for Human rights”, Bluelink information network and the network of “Open society” clubs in Bulgaria. The project of Fund – IGA is one of the two projects supported in the area of local/regional development and it envisages an advocacy campaign for institutionalizing of three more local public mediators in District Pazardjik – in the Municipalities Belovo, Bratsigovo and Rakitovo. |