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Identification details
Official title of the project	Municipal Support Programme IPA 2007 “Good local governance, planning & service delivery”
Website	www.msp-ipa2007.org /
Region/City	Belgrade
Sector(s)	Public Administration Reform, Local Self Government
Budget / EC contribution	7,601,150.00 €
Implementation period	01 January 2010 - 01 January 2013
Expected results	Component 1 – Municipal planning Methodological framework for developing local sustainable development strategies (LSDS), to achieve integrated economic, social and environmental development, including consultations, adopted and applied by at least 15 cities, towns or municipalities Action plans for implementing the LSDS strategies developed and agreed by at least 12 cities, towns or municipalities Component 2 – Municipal finance Programme budgeting successfully introduced to LSG and applied by local authorities Local tax policies consolidated and simplified, where appropriate Pilot initiative on municipal bonds successfully launched, with up to five municipalities placing bonds issues Review of lessons learned from municipal bonds pilot initiative and ways forward prepared and presented to SCTM, MoF, MHMPALSG and municipalities Capacity to administer local revenues, plan for capital investment
Beneficiary	Standing Conference of Town and Municipalities (SCTM) and Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, Public Administration and Local Self-Government (MHMPALSG). Municipalities all over Serbia.
Partners	Consortium led by GIZ International Services and including VNG International, Project Management Group and Baines Babic Ltd.
Contact details	Klaus Richter Team Leader klaus.richter1@giz.de Ulf Kastner Financial Controller ulf.kastner@giz.de Ljiljana Milivojević National Coordinator and Planning Expert ljiljana.milivojevic@giz.de Timo Menniken Project Director timo.menniken@giz.de
Summary
Summary of the project (up to 1500 characters)	Due to its wide coverage of topics and volume the project has a key function in local self government development in Serbia. In several of its activities it is seen as a pilot to demonstrate feasibility, to draw lessons learned and to disseminate these to a wider target group. This applies especially to the introduction of Programme Budgeting and the Municipal Bonds. With the National Training Strategy for Municipal Servants the way shall be paved for setting up the necessary structures and systems to respond to the Human Resources Development needs in the municipalities by that enabling them to better fulfil their tasks given by the various laws. The Exchange3 grant scheme delivers direct support to municipalities in various forms of intervention on basis of the projects proposed and applied by them during an open process of selection through public tendering. The key role of this project is also reflected in its visibility strategy. The project also supports the communication activities, e. g. by editing the quarterly news of the MHMPALSG.
Main goal of the project (up to 800 characters)	The main goals are: To improve the level of Action Planning in the selected municipalities and to identify implementable projects To improve the level of Sector Planning in the selected municipalities, and based on this experience to derive model approaches per sector in cooperation with the relevant stakeholders, e. g. other ministries To support the introduction of new financial planning and budgeting methods in cooperation with the relevant stakeholders, e. g. MoF To improve the level of property tax collection in selected municipalities To develop a National Training Strategy for Municipal Servants To develop and deliver “service packages” to selected municipalities in cooperation with SCTM To improve the administrative efficiency of municipal operations based on
Specific objectives (up to 800 characters)	The overall objective of the project is to contribute to improved governance and economic development in Serbia, through support to a broad range of aspects of the decentralisation of responsibilities and competences from central to local level. The specific objectives of this project are: To improve the capacities for good governance and municipal management at the local level, To improve local services to citizens and enhance local economic development, To strengthen the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities, and To enhance central-local government cooperation.