Table 12: support from TACSO Serbia and the Office for Cooperation with Civil “What Society would be important for your organization in the process of improving the practice in transparent funding of CSOs from LGU budget?” Category Number of answers support to CSOs in planning and implementation of the process 19 Mentors’ Organizing workshop for the exchange of of CSOs active 16 “good practices” in this field with other organizations from Serbia Organizing workshop on transparent funding where the participants would / be representatives of CSOs and LGUs The results of the overall evaluation (completed evaluation questionnaire and questionnaires for self-assessment), indicate that the seminar has met the planned objectives, that the level of participant satisfaction was very high and that a mild progress in their knowledge on the seminar topics has been achieved. However, it is indispensable to continue further education, especially joint education with representatives of LGUs, as well as to continue with the support to the networking of civil society organizations at all levels. According to the participants, support to the networking is needed in the form of group trainings and as mentoring with the individual CSOs. and recommendations for future activities “Lessons learned” “Lessons learned” are grouped in four categories: “Lessons learned” Level of knowledge and understanding of the legal framework in transparent funding; Capacities for promotion, advocacy and monitoring of transparent funding from LGU budget; Willingness of CSOs to network at the local level in the field of transparent funding of CSOs from LGU budgets; Cooperation with LGU representatives. (1) Level of knowledge and understanding of the legal framework in transparent funding. Based on the entire communication with the participants of the training, it can be concluded that this group of selected representatives of CSOs on average insufficiently follows the legal framework relevant for the work of CSOs, including legal framework for their funding. The problem is not the lack of understanding of this framework, but a relatively high level of ignorance at a larger number of participants. It can also be concluded that in three out of five training sessions held, there was a clear polarization between a small number of representatives of expert CSOs and CSOs with long experience in activism and advocacy committed to resolving specific problems, on the one hand, and the other representatives of civil society organizations, on the other. The first group was informed and monitors the legal framework, while the other group is passive, has low awareness of the opportunities and
Table 12: “What support from TACSO Serbia and the Office for Cooperation with Civil Society would be important for your organization in the process of improving the practice in transparent funding of CSOs from LGU budget?” Category Number of answers Mentors’ support to CSOs in planning and implementation of the process 19 Organizing workshop for the exchange of “good practices” of CSOs active in this field with other organizations from Serbia 16 Organizing workshop on transparent funding where the participants would be representatives of CSOs and LGUs / The results of the overall evaluation (completed evaluation questionnaire and questionnaires for self-assessment), indicate that the seminar has met the planned objectives, that the level of participant satisfaction was very high and that a mild progress in their knowledge on the seminar topics has been achieved. However, it is indispensable to continue further education, especially joint education with representatives of LGUs, as well as to continue with the support to the networking of civil society organizations at all levels. According to the participants, support to the networking is needed in the form of group trainings and as mentoring with the individual CSOs. “Lessons learned” and recommendations for future activities “Lessons learned” “Lessons learned” are grouped in four categories: Level of knowledge and understanding of the legal framework in transparent funding; Capacities for promotion, advocacy and monitoring of transparent funding from LGU budget; Willingness of CSOs to network at the local level in the field of transparent funding of CSOs from LGU budgets; Cooperation with LGU representatives. (1) Level of knowledge and understanding of the legal framework in transparent funding. Based on the entire communication with the participants of the training, it can be concluded that this group of selected representatives of CSOs on average insufficiently follows the legal framework relevant for the work of CSOs, including legal framework for their funding. The problem is not the lack of understanding of this framework, but a relatively high level of ignorance at a larger number of participants. It can also be concluded that in three out of five training sessions held, there was a clear polarization between a small number of representatives of expert CSOs and CSOs with long experience in activism and advocacy committed to resolving specific problems, on the one hand, and the other representatives of civil society organizations, on the other. The first group was informed and monitors the legal framework, while the other group is passive, has low awareness of the opportunities and
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