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Findings from the analysis for gender-responsive budgeting presented to Municipalities

The findings from the five analyzes for gender-responsive budgeting in the municipalities were presented at an internal meeting with UN Women Skopje and representatives of the Municipalities of Veles, Gjorce Petrov, Kocani, Sveti Nikole, Veles.

They will soon be publicly available and you can see the details.

This research was developed by Finance Think – Economic Research and Policy Institute, within the UN Women project “Promoting Gender Responsive Policies and Budgets: Towards Transparent, Inclusive and Accountable Governance in the Republic of North Macedonia”, financially supported by The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the Swedish International Cooperation and Development Agency – SIDA

Press Café with the economic journalists

At the traditional #PressCafé, we discussed current topics of public interest with economic journalists. We also presented the current work of Finance Think on a variety of topics.

The results of the State Aid research in an interview for Economic Magazine

Prof. Petreski, one of the authors of the study, exemplified the findings and recommendations in the prominent TV debate on Alsat-M.

The Economic Forum for State Aid has been successfully completed

The results of the latest study were presented at the Economic Forum, and the debate was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Bytyqi, the representative of the EU Delegation, Mr. Janmaat, and the directors of DTIDZ and FITD, Despotovski and Petrov.

Finance Think invites you to an Economic forum

More info follows in the next days!

Meetings with the Municipalities and signing of Memoranda of Cooperation are underway

The activity is part of the project “FISCAST Network – Improving the dialogue for greater financial transparency of municipalities, with a focus on parafiscal charges”, supported by the EU Delegation.

The last of the series of webinars for #StateAid was successfully completed

The topic of the webinar is “Measuring the effects of state aid: The example of the government’s Economic Growth Plan”, and the presenter was prof. Marjan Petreski. Click for video.

Finance Think participates on the public consultations for the Tax Strategy

The public consultations are pursued by the Ministry of Finance, after the Tax Strategy has been adopted by the Government.

We invite local stakeholders in the municipalities to participate in the capacity building program

Representatives of local organizations, institutions, businesses, media, activists and other local stakeholders have the opportunity through participation in the program to become active participants in decision-making at the local level and to monitor the financial transparency of municipalities.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdRGG2yiuzy0G1Wqkxh0xSIveaFIzrmnh0jYvHbzGSPIFCoEQ/viewform?edit_requested=true&fbclid=IwAR16_bVpPq8ARkjPe2G1aZqn78wNupbIG2fF1YhmZgOkAtTEY1GQSmLy9X8

Capacity building of local stakeholders is part of the action: “Improving the dialogue for greater financial transparency of municipalities, with a focus on parafiscal charges”, which Finance Think implements together with AGORA, Quantum Prima and LAG Agro Leader, with support from @Delegation of the European Union, Skopje.

MoU with the Municipality of Krushevo for mapping the parafiscal charges

The Municipality of Krushevo is the first of 21 municipalities to develop a register of #parafiscal charges and to increase financial transparency.

Today, we signed a Memorandum of Cooperation within the project “FISCAST Network – Improving the dialogue for greater financial transparency of municipalities, with a focus on parafiscal charges”, supported by the Delegation of the European Union, Skopje.