New Program for development…

With participation of participants from all over the Region, mainly representatives of the nine municipalities which belong to the Region, the Business community, the Academy, as well as the NGO sector, on September 10th, 2020, in Struga, was held the first consultative meeting for preparation of the Program for development of SWPR 2020-2024.

At the beginning of the meeting, the participants were greeted by the Manager of the Center for development, MSc. Mirjana Lozanoska, who also introduced the participants to the process of drafting a medium-term strategic document and its importance for the development of the region in the programming period from 2020 to 2024. Then Prof. Dr. Naume Marinoski took the scene who introduced the participants in detail with the Methodology for preparation of the Development Program, referring to the need for active participation of all stakeholders in the whole process in order to obtain a quality document, which would later be operationalized through specific projects from interest of municipalities and other relevant stakeholders at regional level. In his presentation, emphasis were placed on the activities to be implemented in the next period, especially on the two workshops which are expected to result in key findings and insights after the sector analysis, necessary in the preparation of the Program for development of the SWPR. In the end Prof. Dr. Marinoski referred to the last steps of the process of preparation of this document, where it was pointed out the need to harmonize the Program for development with the national strategies of other line ministries, and as key was stated the Strategy for BRD of RNM, which is under preparation.