Specific Activities - Ohrid Framework Agreement
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Police Reform Project
Ensuring effective implementation of the Law on police remains high on the Government agenda, and is one of the benchmarks for starting the EU negotiation talks. For a number of years, the British Embassy Skopje has been assisting the Macedonian Government in its reform of the Macedonian Police Service through the British Police Reform Programme. This comprehensive programme provides training and advice on the restructuring the Rapid Deployment Unit and the development of national criminal intelligence system based on the UK model of Intelligence for the Organised Crime Department. The two projects are inter-linked with the project for capacity building of the Anti Money Laundering Directorate and the Anti-Corruption Umbrella project, ensuring maximum co-ordination and leveraging.
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Support to decentralisation process in Macedonia
This project supports the decentralisation process in Macedonia by implementing two separate, but highly complementary strands of project activity designed to target the two main stakeholders in the decentralisation process, namely local government and citizens:
- Introduction of user - friendly decentralisation legal manual. The Manual aims to simplify the complicated legal provisions of the 50+ decentralisation laws into a single, simple format that ensures that everyone understand their rights in delivery of community services. One segment of the project introduces the Statements of Community Involvement in Bitola, Novo Selo and Tetovo, a concept that promotes citizens’ participation in the decision-making process at the local government.
- Training and mentoring scheme for local administrations in 10 municipalities. The project set up a mentoring scheme between 10 municipalities that failed to enter the second phase of fiscal decentralisation and 10 municipalities that have successfully entered the fiscal decentralisation. Also, one segment of the project introduced the concept of the Public Private Partnership, a new legislative solution that can be utilised to secure better and more efficient community-based services provided through partnerships among the public and private sectors.
Project Implementers: ZORS Alka and ZELS
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British Salonika Force 22nd Division Memorial
A joint action of the British Embassy and the municipality of Dojran to refurbish the British Salonika Force 22nd Division memorial at Dojran whilst creating an educational glade of remembrance in its vicinity in order to remember those soldiers who died in Macedonia during WW1.The Project aligns the Annual Work Programme of the Municipality to preserve the battlefield memorials in the vicinity and to increase its potential as a tourist destination.
Project implementer: Municipality of Dojran
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