Tags Municipalities
Tag: municipalities
Government of NMacedonia’s promise to help the municipalities procure new waste containers and bins is partially fulfilled
The Government of the Republic of North Macedonia's Programme for Work for the period 2020-2024, promises that by the end of 2024, the government will provide direct support for the procurement of 10,000 bins and containers annually for the municipalities, as help towards protection of the environment. Somewhere in the second half of the government’s mandate, we assess this...
North Macedonia’s institutions had been saving electricity in September, but not all of them managed to cut consumption by 15%
The state institutions of North Macedonia in September managed to save electricity by 20% compared to the same month of the last year. However, not all state institutions, public enterprises and municipalities has seriously understood the need to save electricity and the plan "Saving electricity for safer winter," although the government in August warned there will be sanctions for...
The young aren’t a priority for the municipalities – the implementation of the Law on youth participation in North Macedonia insufficient
Expired deadlines and complacent municipalities - this is how the implementation of the Law on youth participation and youth policies in North Macedonia can be described in brief.
Only 12% of the municipalities in North Macedonia have formed local youth councils, although they were obliged by law to do it by January 2021. Eleven municipalities established an office for the...
VMRO-DPMNE wins 20 mayoral posts in the runoff local elections in North Macedonia, SDSM and DUI win 7 mayoral posts each
Identically to the first round of the local elections in North Macedonia, in the runoff elections yesterday, the opposition party VMRO-DPMNE got most of the mayoral posts - it won 20 municipalities.
According to the first unofficial results from the State Election Commission, VMRO-DPMNE has won the mayoral posts in Pehchevo, Novo Selo, Kochani, Vasilevo, Konche, Radovish, Makedonska Kamenica, Kratovo,...
EU is waiting, municipalities in North Macedonia have been deliberating for 7 months who will manage the regional landfill in Sveti Nikole
The construction of the first landfill in North Macedonia where the waste will be deposited and recycled in accordance with the European standards is long overdue. Even though the municipality of Sveti Nikole in February agreed to the establishment of the Public inter regional enterprise for waste management "EKO ISTOK- SEVEROISTOK," (Eco East-Northeast), the 18 municipalities in the Eastern...
Metamorphosis Foundation’s research: Average openness of municipalities in North Macedonia in 2021 was 25%
In North Macedonia there are municipalities that have two official websites or have a website which is not registered with the gov.mk domain. On the other hand, the websites of some municipalities, like the municipality of Saraj, aren't meeting the cyber security standards. Even 12 of the country's local self-government units didn't publish their budgets on their official websites....
Metamorphosis Foundation: Openness not priority for municipalities in North Macedonia
Only 10 municipalities in North Macedonia have published civil budgets, while the local self-government units are meeting only a modest 27% of the indicators in the sub-domain of financial transparency. The municipalities aren't publishing data about salaries of officials and the salaries of the members of their councils.
This is just a small part of the results of the research...
Discindo Team wins 3-day Open Data Hackathon organized by Metamorphosis Foundation
The online Open Data Hackathon for students and start-ups has a winner. The Discindo team offered the best and most creative software solution for the challenge that the local self-government units are facing when publishing the budget, as part of the hackathon that was organized by the Metamorphosis Foundation for Internet and Society as part of the USAID Civic...
Poll: Almost half of the respondents in North Macedonia have no trust in their mayors
The respondents in the poll by the Macedonian Center of International Cooperation (MCMC) are divided when it comes to trusting the mayors of the municipalities where they live. More than half (50,6%) said that they trust the mayors, but 47,5% said they don't. The ethnic Albanians (74,3%) and the members of other communities (59,1%) stressed that they have great...
In North Macedonia 16 municipalities will create COVID-centers in preparation for the autumn wave
In preparation for the potential new wave of COVID-19 infections in North Macedonia, the mayors of 16 municipalities have endorsed the proposal of the Health Ministry and the Commission for Infectious Diseases to form regional "COVID-centers" in the cities where there are already general hospitals and health centers, informs the Health Ministry.
In pinpoints that it's about additional temporary capacities,...
Research: Тhe ministries and municipalities are least transparent about their finances
Centre for Civil Communications published the ranking of the ministries, Government and municipalities according to the Transparency Index.
“Active transparency of the ministries and the municipalities remains at a low level even in 2019, although the bar has been slightly raised since last year. The percent of achievement for publishing information of public character of all 97 surveyed institutions is...
Zaev: Gasification is developing at a good pace
The construction of pipelines and other gas systems is developing at a good pace, some municipalities have already prepared the necessary documentation for the construction of natural gas distribution systems, and the process of constructing the interconnection with the gas system of the Republic of Greece is entering its final phase, said today Prime Minister Zoran Zaev at the...
The administration in the municipalities has doubled since 2011 (infographic)
The municipalities have doubled the number of their employees compared to 2011, shows the comparison of two documents from the Ministry of Local Self-Governance and the Ministry of Information Society and Administration (MISA). The dynamics of the employments by the municipalities has doubled after 2013, when the number of employees started rising by 22% per annum.
According to the Ministry...
SDSM will lead 56 municipalities including Skopje, VMRO-DPMNE 5, DUI 10, and the Alliance 3
According to the results in both rounds of the local elections, SDSM will lead 56 municipalities including Skopje, VMRO-DPMNE 5, DUI 10, the Alliance of the Albanians in 3, BESA, DPA and DPT will each manage one, and candidates nominated by a group of voters in 3 municipalities.
In the first round of the elections that were organized on the...
“Most” will be monitoring the second round of elections with more than 1000 observers
The Citizens Association "Most" will be monitoring the second round of the local elections with more than 1,000 observers. 910 observers will be deployed at polling stations that will cover about 50% of the polling stations within each of those municipalities, in which tomorrow will be voted.
"Observers from "Most" will be static, and will monitor the voting process at...
Gjorchev: With the attacks on the municipalities, there is mass political and party repression
The fact is that in Macedonia at the moment, there is political repression everywhere, there are intrusions in the municipalities and there are massive pressures on both the candidates of VMRO-DPMNE and voters and entire groups of citizens, said a member of VMRO-DPMNE, Vladimir Gjorchev.
He added that today there was a direct attack on the municipalities of Vevcani, Kriva...
There won’t be any referendums regarding migrants on the day of local elections
The State Self-Government Inspectorate has made a decision to stop the decisions for organizing local referendums in the municipalities for prevention of a population of migrants on the day of the local elections - 15th of October.
This was announced today at a press conference the State Inspector for Local-Self-Government, Rahim Musliu, who also said that he will...
The Municipality of Gevgelija are also asking the Government to withdraw the strategy on refugees
The Municipality of Gevgelija has also sent their views on the draft strategy for the integration of refugees and foreigners from 2017-2027. After Meta News Agency did an article titled “Xenophobia and calls for a referendum from the municipalities on the strategy for refugees”, the Municiality of Gevgelija sent their views along with the municipalities of Novo Selo, Demir...
Xenophobia and calls for a referendum from the municipalities on the strategy for refugees
A total of six municipalities in the country submitted their opinions to the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and to the Government regarding the draft strategy for the integration of refugees and foreigners from 2017-2027 and the proposed refugee integration action plan for 2017-2027.
The Ministry of Labour and Social Policy told “Meta” that parts of the explanations from...
Tevdovski: The state institutions debt is 363 million euros
The state institutions debt was 363 million euros on May 31st, this year, Minister of Finance Dragan Tevdovski informs today.
He added that the review of unpaid liabilities was made on a data basis that budget users, funds, public enterprises and municipalities have presented to the Ministry, and therefore, and now, their credibility can not be guaranteed.
“The amount for the...
