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- The path toward the integration processes |
BiH government took the obligation
to fulfil the conditions that will
enable the next step for membership
in the EU. The executive governmental
body is the Directorate for European
Integration with whom the Forum
of Tuzla Citizens has several years
long and very successful co - operation.
The plan for promotion of the European
values and informing of the public
about the results of the negotiating
team of BiH was consisted in the
project titled Euro Step, and
that application was sent to the
European Commission. Unfortunately,
the application for was rejected
since the European Commission believed
that it is much more important to
set up the European Centre in Brcko,
which would cover the region of
North-East Bosnia. We applied to
the Balkan Trust (in Belgrade) with
slightly modified project. Unfortunately,
they also replied that the project
was good, however, they could not
finance it. It means that the general
determination toward the European
integration, which we often hear
from the representatives of the
International Community, but also
from the state officials, does not
have the justification in the practice.
There is another possibility that
the project is not written in satisfactory
way, but having in mind the experience
we have in that field, that this
is not our first project in that
area, but the continuation of something
we already did, that is less possible.
If we look for the explanation,
it would be that the European Commission
simply wanted the centre in Brcko.
Speaking about the penetration to
the new donors, it is very well
known that the donors stick to their
confirmed organisations that they
support. The fact is that in 2006
we have not worked in this area
as we planned.
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Creation of the ambient for understanding
and trust among the citizens in BiH |
3.1. participation in the projects
of the Igman Initiative – during 2006,
Centre for Regionalism from Novi Sad
have not placed the Forum of Tuzla
Citizens as the implementing partner
for any project. The truth is that
the president of the Forum of Tuzla
Citizens, Mr Vehid Sehic, is also
active member of the Igman Initiative
and he was invited and was present
at all sessions of the Igman Initiative
in 2006 and several of them have been
held. Since we support this project
due to its regional importance, we
promoted them at our activities (by
placing of their logo on our posters,
etc.).
3.2. affirmation of the citizens’
courage and citizens’ responsibility
– the year 2006 was the year of state
elections and the movement of the
non-governmental organisations in
BiH was established under the name
“Grozd”. The basic aim of the movement
was to increase the influence of the
citizens on political processes and
responsibilities of the politicians
and their parties toward the citizens.
The project was very wide and almost
every NGO in BiH joined it. The Forum
of Tuzla Citizens as well, and especially
our youth group supported “Grozd”
through their pre-election activities.
3.3. participation n the trainings,
seminars, round tables and conferences,
both in BiH and in the region, which
are related to creation and strengthening
of the ambient for understanding and
tolerance among the citizens (ad hoc
activities) – participation of the
FTC president at the sessions of the
Igman Initiative and participation
of the youth group members in different
events (more details about this in
the report about the activities of
Urban Culture).
3.4. and 3.5. in period November-December
2006, FTC planned and realised two
international conferences. One of
them was held in Tuzla on November
24-25, 2006 and was titled “How to
Reach the Truth?” and the other one
was held n Trebinje on December 8-9,
2006 and was titled “Inter-religious
Understanding”. The conferences were
mostly financed by IKV from the Netherlands
and we sued some of the funds from
the Mott Foundation. More about the
conferences in the report below.
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regional co-operation |
During 2006, FTC did not have significant
projects that deal with regional
co-operation, nor it was engaged
in some of the projects of some
of the partner organisations from
the neighbouring countries. The
focus of the activities in 2006
was internal politics (the issue
of BiH Constitution was the most
important topic), work in the local
community, implementation of the
Law on the local self-governance
and work with the youth.
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activities for the institutional strengthening
of the Forum of Tuzla Citizens |
In 2006, members of the Forum of Tuzla
Citizens have not made strategic plan,
since we already have our directions
of work that are very well known.
We held several internal meetings
related to realisation of the aims
and adaptation to actual political
situation. In relation to our priorities
established in 2005, it can be concluded
that most of our aims have been achieved,
with the exception of the work in
the field of European integration.
Part of the reason for that is that
we failed to provide financial means
for the project we planned, but this
aim is still actual, so we will continue
to try. Regional co-operation also
“failed” in a way and that will be
the topic of the evaluation for 2006,
as well the establishment of the short-term
priorities that we are already preparing.
Related to the youth group, we can
definitely say that it is one of the
most successful points of FTC’s work,
which gives the inspiration for the
FTC members. In 2006, the youth group
worked very well, they realised several
projects, they have not relied on
FTC’s funds, but they found their
own, participated in several partner
projects and were very famous among
the NGOs, but also in the local authorities
and media.
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