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Центарот за истражување и креирање политики, во соработка со Франкофонски круг од Скопје, на 12 декември 2011 година (понеделник), одржа конференција насловена „Франкофонијата и демократијата“.

Конференцијата се одржа во Свечената сала на ФАМИС „Факултет за администрација и менаџмент на информациски системи” во Битола. Конференцијата имаше за цел запознавање на македонската јавност со практицирањето на демократијата, човековите права и слободи во франкофонскиот простор, преку промоција на Декларацијата од Бамако.

На конференцијата учествуваа млади правници, економисти, политиколози, студенти, франкофони, претставници на државни органи, судии, почесни конзули и други заинтересирани за развојот на демократијата, човековите права и правната држава во Република Македонија.

ACTIVITIES 2011

“Mobility and Emigration of Experts: personal and social gains and losses”

CRPM member Anastas Vangeli attended the regional conference "Mobility and Emigration of Experts: personal and social gains and losses", on November 26, 2010, in the Palace of Serbia.

Read more about the conference here...http://www.grupa484.org.rs/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=431&Itemid=1&lang=english

OSCE Review Conference 2010

CRPM member Nedzad Mehmedovic (Неџад Мехмедовиќ) attended the OSCE Review Conference 2010 from 30 September until 8 October 2010 in Warsaw, Poland. He was a guest speaker at the side-event "Freedom of Expression in the OSCE Region" organized by the Jefferson Institute.

Read more about the conference here http://www.osce.org/conferences/revcon_1_2010.html

The essentials of video production

CRPM member Nedzad Mehmedovic (Неџад Мехмедовиќ) attended the workshop ‘The essentials of video production’ from 12 until 17 September 2010 in Weicherdange, Luxembourg.

The EU conditionality after the Lisbon treaty – effects on Macedonia?

CRPM’s Marija Risteska on May 20th in Skopje attended the 5th Annual International Conference organized by the American Colleague Skopje. The Conference looked at The Effects of the Lisbon Treaty. Dr. Risteska  presented a paper on EU conditionality after the Lisbon Treaty. An abstract of the paper is presented here.  

NISPAcee 18th  Annual International Conference

CRPM’s Marija Risteska from May 11th to May 15th in Warsaw attended the NISPACee 18th  Annual International Conference on Public Administration. The Conference focused on Public Administration Reform in time of crises. It provided venue for presentation of academic work in 5 working groups: PA reform, local government, public finance, e-governance, and policy analysis. Dr. Risteska  presented a paper on the framework for Regulatory impact assessment as a policy analysis tool with which policy outcomes are enhanced. A concept of the paper is presented here.  

LSEE IFRI Research conference

CRPM’s Marija Risteska on May 10th in Zagreb attended the LSEE IFRI Research conference organized together with the Institute for Foreign relations – IMO in Zagreb. The Conference focused on Regional development and effects of decentralization. It provided venue for presentation of research work from SEE academics. Dr. Risteska  presented a paper of the effects of decentralization in Macedonia on policy entrepreneurship. The concept of the paper is presented here.  

CRPM President Dr. Zhidas Daskalovski presents at the International Conference: How Can Independent Research Centres (Think-Tanks) Be Successfully Involved in Security Politics...

CRPM President Dr. Zhidas Daskalovski presents at the International conference From 'Fortress Europe' to 'Europe without Barriers'? – Priorities of the Czech Presidency in EU External Relations: Transatlantic Perspectives that took place in the Cernin palace of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic under the auspices of Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon. Karel Schwarzenberg. There were a number of panel discussions on different topics of the EU neighborhood: Western Balkans, Turkey, Russia and Black Sea region. Introductory speeches were delivered by the Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Hon. Alexandr Vondra and by Ambassador of the United States to the Czech Republic H.E. Richard W. Graber.

The conference program is available here. The audio of the panel where Dr. Daskalocski presented is available here.

CRPM President Dr.Zhidas Daskalovski, Sanja Kostovska and Riste Zmejkovski participate at the annual PASOS assembly. Dr. Daskalovski, CRPM representative of the board of PASOS has a presentation on various activities of our think tank...

CRPM's Senior Analyst Marija Risteska continues activities that aim to build training curriculum in the various CRPM policy areas. Most recently she participated in the TOT Training for multi-ethnic diversity management in the public sector.

This training promotes innovative strategies for the public management of multiethnic communities through policy research and development, training and technical assistance, publications, and networking.

The president of the Center for Research and Policy Making teaches Public Policy Making and EU Perspectives for Multiethnic Societies at the International Summer University Macedonia (ISUM 2008) in Ohrid...

Academics, religious leaders, policy-makers and NGO representatives came together at a conference in Zagreb on 23-24 June 2008 to discuss the role of intercultural dialogue for the Balkan region and for Europe as a whole.

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CRPM on the EBRD public consultation meeting in Belgrade

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development at 28 march 2008 in Belgrade organized a public consultation meeting with representatives from NGO sector from Balkans in order to improve bank’s environmental and public information policies. As a leading think tank organization from Macedonia, CRPM was invited to participate at this meeting and to contribute in improving EBRB policies.

Riste Zmejkoski, as our representative, took a part in the debates about Public Information Policy and Independent Recourse Mechanism, bringing his experience and knowledge from this areas. We do hope that this type of consultant meetings will happens more often and will involved more participants from civil society.

Event link: http://www.rec.org/ebrd_consultation/

Policies links:  http://www.ebrd.com/about/policies/enviro/policy/review/index.htm,

http://www.ebrd.com/about/policies/pip/draft.pdf

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CRPM analyst Ms.Marija Risteska participates at the Conference on Participation of Citizens and Civic Organizations in Policy and Decision Making Processes organized by the European Center for Non-for-Profit Law in cooperation with the Macedonian Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs and the Contact Office for Cooperation between NGOs and the Assembly.

Participation of citizens and civic organizations in policy and decision making processes

CRPM member Natalija Spasovska attended the Macroeconomic Policy Seminar for Civil Society Organizations from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia organized by the IMF in cooperation with the Joint Vienna Institute in Vienna from 30th Oct until 2nd November, 2007. The aim of the seminar was to inform the Civil Society Organizations from the region regarding the actual economic issues as well as to discuss economic concepts that are suggested as part of the advisory services rendered by the local IMF offices in the above mentioned regional countries. The main result of the seminar is to strengthen the partnership between the CSO form the Western Balkan region. The final acquisition is establishing an informal practice of consultation meetings between the IMF local representatives and the local SCO when proposing specific policy measures in order to increase the impact of the CSO’s in the policy making process.

From 19 – 21st October 2007, CRPM member Mr. Zoran Necev attended a regional meeting at the Novi Sad School of Journalism on Visa Policy in the Western Balkan Region which was organized by the Citizens’ Pact for South-Eastern Europe with consultancy by and coordinated with European Stability Initiative.  The workshop was organized for young researchers – and members of think-thanks cooperating with and supported by ESI in Skopje, Tirana, Sarajevo, Pristine and Novi Sad and served several aims:

	It brought young researchers from the Western Balkans together
	It linked up young researchers from Western Balkan countries and created a network and regional cooperation on issues of joint interest
	The workshop was a thematic meeting and served as kick off for a regional Western Balkan research on visa regimes
	The meeting helped to initiate joint coordinated action among groups in the different countries to work on visa abolishment to the European Union.

Apart from members of think-tanks in the Western Balkan, representatives of national and regional/European organizations were present as lecturers and participants.

It was the conclusion of the participant to work together in the coming year on presenting their arguments for liberalization through a comprehensive, regional (WB) research concerning the ‘Black Schengen List’-countries and a roadmap for the acceleration of the process of visa liberalization. 

CRPM Senior Analyst participated at the training in Gender Sensitive Budgeting, organized by UNIFEM Office in Central and Eastern Europe - Bratislava, the Association Vesta organized the three-day training (from 19th to 21st, September 2007)...

CRPM Senior Analyst publishes Macedonia report for the Freedom House Nations in Transit 2007, a comprehensive, comparative, multidimensional study focusing on 29 countries and administrative areas from Central Europe to Eurasia...

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