Fact Sheets

Start date: August 15, 2012          End date:  August 14, 2014  

Anticipated Project budget (Life of Project):  $ 292,536

Implementer:  My Career


Objectives

Improve the participation of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Macedonian society by providing them with internship and employment opportunities.  In addition, encourage positive changes in the perception and attitudes toward disabilities within the private sector.   


Components

Start date:  January 2011          End date:    December 2013 
Project budget (Life of Project):  $1,336,857 
Implementer: Business Start-Up Centre – Bitola (BSC-Bitola) 

Start date: April 18, 2012          End date: April 17, 2015
Project budget (Life of Project):  $ 575,000
Implementer: Center for Civil Communications


Objectives

Increase micro and small enterprise (MSE) awareness of the opportunities offered by the public procurement (PP) market; provide MSEs with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to participate more in government contracting; and streamline public procurement administrative procedures that inhibit MSE participation in government contracting.

Enhance economic growth and increase job creation by strengthening microenterprises to maximize their contribution to the national economy. The core pool of project beneficiaries will consist of 180 microenterprises and entrepreneurs from four Macedonian regions.

Start date:  April 24, 2012          End date:  April 23, 2016 
Anticipated Project budget (Life of Project):  $ 5 million
Implementer:  Carana


Objective

Strengthen private sector capacity to drive regional economic development and job creation within selected regions of Macedonia.

Start date:  September 2012    Duration:  24 months 
Anticipated Project budget (Life of Project):   $1,500,000
Implementer:  Milieukontakt Macedonia


Objectives

Strengthen civil society and raise awareness, boost activism, and bolster local resilience to global climate change.

Start date:  December 20, 2012       End Date:   June 17, 2015
Anticipated Project budget (Life of Project):  $ 412,984
Implementer:  Balkan Investigative Network Reporting (BIRN)


Objectives

The goal of the overall SIMM project is to increase the legitimacy of the media and strengthen freedom of expression by empowering journalists to reduce their vulnerability to political, economic and legal intimidation. The project has three components:

Start date:  November 19, 2012     End Date:   November 19, 2015
Anticipated Project budget (Life of Project):  $ 488,268
Implementer:  Media Development Center (MDC)


Objectives

The goal of the overall SIMM project is to increase the legitimacy of the media and strengthen freedom of expression by empowering journalists to reduce their vulnerability to political, economic and legal intimidation. The project has three components:

Start date:  October 10, 2012     End Date:   April 10, 2015
Anticipated Project budget (Life of Project):  $198,089
Implementer:  Metamorphosis, Foundation for Internet and Society.


Objectives

The goal of the overall SIMM project is to increase the legitimacy of the media and strengthen freedom of expression by empowering journalists to reduce their vulnerability to political, economic and legal intimidation.  The project has three components:

Start date:  February 27, 2012     End Date:  August 31, 2016
Project budget (Life of Project):   $4,819,125
Implementer:   Foundation Open Society – Macedonia (FOSM), in partnership with
four local civil society organizations (CSOs): the Youth Educational Forum; Forum – Center for Strategic Research and Documentation; the Center for Civil Communications; and Reactor – Research in Action.

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