DIALOGUE ACTIONS

LOCAL-LOCAL DIALOGUE

A local level dialogue have multi-purpose actions. In each of the communities, they will: raise awareness in a community about the issue, provide more direct information to citizens about decentralization of their own community and decentralization in general, and, finally, start a dialogue between citizens, local authorities and civil society representatives. Furthermore, actions will serve to map the most important problems/issues for each of the municipalities that are directly connected to decentralization.

Local level dialogue actions have two main parts:

The promotion part, which will be organized prior to the discussion with local government representatives. Depending on the community, they will have a different form, but will consist of direct contact with citizens (through opening a stall on the central community square, door to door information, etc.) and media promotion (interview with local authorities on local TV channels or radio, interview with one of the experts for decentralization, etc.); 

The dialogue part, which serves to open a discussion between citizens, representatives of local authorities and civil society members. Again, this part can take different forms, depending on the community (i.e. round tables, debates, Q&A sessions, open hall meetings, etc.). At the end of each of these actions, participants will determine several key problems they are facing in their local communities that resulted from centralization.

LOCAL-NATIONAL DIALOGUE

Local - national dialogue has several positive points. Firstly, it actively engages more powerful decision-makers - representatives of central government; secondly, it opens a channel for citizens to express their opinions to those who directly represent them in the Parliament; thirdly, the previous two actions will serve to provide the necessary information for MPs or other central government representatives so that they could present the actions in the parliament (MPs questions to Parliament Committees and Parliament, topic on Parliament of Serbia regular sessions, question to Government of Serbia) or government bodies. Exactly who is going to come as central government representative will be decided by BCIF and PROTECTA based upon the issues identified during a local – local dialogue and the availability of authorized central government representative.

Similarly to a local-local dialogue, these actions will have two parts:
The promotion part, which will be organized prior to the discussion with local government representatives. Depending on the community, they will have a different form, but will consist of direct contact with citizens (through opening a stall on the central community square, door to door information, etc.) and media promotion (interview with local authorities on local TV channels or radio, interview with one of the experts for decentralisation, etc.);  

The dialogue part, which serves to open a discussion between citizens, representatives of local authorities and civil society members. Again, this part can take different forms, depending on the community (i.e. round tables, debates, Q&A sessions, open hall meetings, etc.). At the end of each of these actions, participants will determine several key problems they are facing in their local communities that resulted from centralization.