National PAR Working Group: The citizen consultations are an important part of the Small Grant Facility programme

The citizen consultations are an important part of the Small Grant Facility (SGF) programme, since the grantees will be doing local citizens consultations within their projects. This was explained at the beginning of the Fifth Meeting of the National PAR Working Group in North Macedonia held on 22.07.2020 via Zoom.

Julijana Karai from EPI gave a presentation on the European Citizens Consultations, while Angel Mojsovski presented the current research results and findings of the WEBER 2.0 Project.

Kristina Dimovska from the Ministry of Information Society and Administration presented the Draft-Annual Report on the implementation of the AP from the PAR Strategy 2018-2022 and Vesna Bochvarska and Iskra Belcheva from the Center for Change Management talked about the key PAR priority topics which have been identified at the WeBER Platform meeting by the core members in North Macedonia.

In that regard, a Loomio discussion has been implemented by sharing proposals for voting and rating the key PAR priority topics by the participants of the NWG in North Macedonia. The selected key PAR priorities will be pat of the forthcoming Call for proposals for SGF.