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Identification of issues in Bogovinje

Thursday, 12 November 2009

The second forum session, which identified the priority issues of the residents of Bogovinje, took place on 10 November at the Restaurant Elita in Bogovinje. Three groups of issues were identified by the residents of Bogovinje – Infrastructure, Education, and Environment/Agriculture.  These are sub-topics of the main topic Local Economic Development, within the frames of which the residents created working groups that would do research of the situation in the field and develop draft concepts for specific projects.  The residents identified a number of issues the addressing of which would improve their daily lives - construction of a road to the village Kamjane, municipal infrastructure, construction of sidewalks, opening of a primary school in the village Sinichane, kindergarten, construction of an irrigation system, construction of the road Skender Bey, construction of a mountain tourism center, etc.  The Mayor of municipality Bogovinje, Hazbi Idrizi, underlined the sub-topics of local economic development, which are part of the municipal plans – development of rural tourism, promotion of the municipality, job creation, and development of municipal infrastructure.  The forum process includes seven forum session, where citizens discuss, propose solutions, and specify activities aimed at improved their everyday lives. The democratic way of voting enables transparent and accountable operations of the municipal administration, and deciding where to spend the municipal funds and the donation from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).  The total budget for the Programme in the municipality Bogovinje amounts to MKD 6 million, of which MKD 4.5 million are a donation by SDC, and MKD 1.5 million denars are municipal funds.

 

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