Croatian institute for local government, that is implementing the project "Equality Scan” in partnership with Vukovar-Srijem County, organized the first two-day long educational training in order to present the topic of anti-discrimination policies and decision-making processes.


The training took place in Vinkovci and had an aim to educate Councils of national minorities, minority representatives and civil society organizations dealing with anti-discrimination policies on policies and fighting against discrimination.

Lecturers from the Centre for Peace studies Zagreb, Sandra Benčić and Gordan Bosanac, presented to training participants the context of drafting policy, policy aims, influence analysis and the role of Councils of national minorities, minority representatives and civil society organizations in defining policy priorities. Training participants praised the idea of organizing such a training and lecturers on presenting the topics, and also expressed their interest to participate in the forthcoming project activities.

The project implementation is to be continued in the form of educational trainings, mentorships and public consultations.

The objective of the project is to increase the effectiveness of the Croatian civil society organizations (CSOs) in an independent monitoring of anti-discrimination policies through strengthening their administrative and managerial skills and enhancing cooperation between CSOs dealing with monitoring of policies concerned with national minorities in Vukovar-Srijem County and the regional authority. The project is to be implemented within the IPA Program "Enhancing the capacities/roles of the CSOs in monitoring of the implementation of the EU Acquis in field of the comprehensive anti-discrimination strategy" that is funded by EU.

Croatian institute for local government started with implementing the project „Equality Scan“ in partnership with Vukovar-Srijem County by organizing a start conference, that took place in Vukovar, with an aim to present the project, its objectives and expected results. The project is to be implemented within the IPA Program „Enhancing the capacities/roles of the CSOs in monitoring of the implementation of the EU Acquis in field of the comprehensive anti-discrimination strategy“ that is funded by EU through the implementing bodies of Central Finance and Contracting Agency of EU programs and Office for Cooperation with NGOS of the Government of the Republic of Croatia.


The objective of the project is to increase the effectiveness of the Croatian civil society organizations (CSOs) in an independent monitoring of anti-discrimination policies through strengthening their administrative and managerial skills and enhancing cooperation between CSOs dealing with monitoring of policies concerned with national minorities in Vukovar-Srijem County and the regional authority.

The conference gathered around fifty Councils of national minorities, minority representatives and CSO dealing with promotion of national minority rights and monitoring of anti-discrimination policy. Within the conference lectures participants had an opportunity to listen to experiences of excellent lecturers, who presented best practice examples and also their knowledge on independent monitoring of anti-discrimination policy (Zovonimir Lauc, HILS President; Davor Brunčić, HILS vice president; Nikola Mak, Council for national minorities; Tamas Kadar, EQUINET and Aleksa Đokić).

The project implementation is to be continued in the form of education for CSOs, mentorships and public consultations. Out of series of education, the first activity in a row is a training that is to take place in the second half of October 2011.

Croatian institute for local government in partnership with Vukovar-Srijem County started with the implementation of the project "Equality Scan".

The objective of the project is to increase the effectiveness of the Croatian civil society organizations (CSOs) in an independent monitoring of anti-discrimination policies through strengthening their administrative and managerial skills and enhancing cooperation between CSOs dealing with monitoring of policies concerned with national minorities in Vukovar-Srijem County and the regional authority.

The project is to be implemented through series of the following activities:
• Education for CSOs through series of trainings
• Education through an online database
• Mentorships through an individual work with CSOs
• Public consultations aiming at sustainable cooperation between CSO and regional government

Project is to be implemented within the IPA program 2008 " Enhancing the capacities / roles of the CSOs in monitoring of the implementation of the EU Acquis in field of the comprehensive anti-discrimination strategy" that is funded by EU through implementing bodies of Central Finance and Contracting Agency of EU programs and Office for Cooperation with NGOs of the Government of the Republic of Croatia.