This 2I aims to inform and mobilize the community about the importance of gender equality.
The initiative includes sports activity – kayaking, rowing for gender equality.
This activity will be filmed, so that it could be further used to raise awareness of gender equality, that everyone can paddle no matter what they are and to which group they belong. Through the production of promotional materials and informative video, the initiative will reach more people who will hopefully start breaking gender stereotypes together.

The focus of this 2I is around mobilization of the affected community about the implementation of certain self-employment measures, as a part of the Government program/ Operational Plan for Active Labor Market Measures of the Employment Service Agency. Information gathered so far indicates that there is lack of information and awareness of young people up to 29 years old in the municipality of Struga regarding this measure. In that sense, to mobilize and raise the awareness of young people regarding this measure a series of activities will be implemented such as: online survey, workshop, info-graphics and promotional materials and similar. It is hoped that this will lead to increased interest and engagement of young people with regards to self-employment opportunities.

This 2I will introduce the changes in Law of Games of chance and entertainment games.
The purpose of this initiative is to mobilize the citizens to take action and ask the competent authorities to remove gambling facilities within a distance of 500 m from schools and religious facilities. The activities in the initiative will aim to inform the citizens about the promises given by the government program and also to raise the awareness of the negative impact gambling has on Struga’s youth.
Within the initiative, the team will organize meetings with parents, school leaders, psychologists and religious institutions, as targeted allies for the initiative.

This 2I aims to monitor the measure of the government to ” lower the number of inspectorates in the country by almost a half and double the number of inspectors working on environment and market regulations”. This is necessary since existing institutional set up in Southwest region and municipality of Struga faces a lot of challenges regarding massive illegal logging of the mountain, deforestation, landslides and floods. The initiative aims to launch an online petition that would gather public support and request the government to expedite the implementation of this planned measure. Other community engagement activities are also foreseen to be implemented such as: social media campaign, guerilla actions, information-dissemination printed materials.

This 2I aims to mobilize the local community and inform them about the importance of the process of adding/removing cultural monuments in Ohrid and Struga. The initiative includes design of posters with UNESCO’s recommendations which will be placed in different locations in both municipalities; organization of public discussion; as well as so called Little Montmartre in Ohrid and Struga where high school students will draw creative motives inspired by the natural and cultural beauties of the lakeside towns.

This initiative will address the systemic barrier for effective work of the Municipal Council’s Commission for Interethnic Relations in the municipality of Struga. Through meetings with involved stakeholders and local government experts and practitioner, the initiative will help identify what needs to be changed in the statute of the municipality to foster the work of this existing Commission. The findings from the initiative will be used for preparation of the party election program for local elections in the municipality of Struga.

This 2I is set to address the well-known issue with stray animals in the municipality of Struga. To address and contribute towards solving this problem, a research will be implemented through quantitative and qualitative methods resulting in Policy brief and visualization of proposed solution. Promotion and presentation will be held for the stakeholders and the municipal authorities for implementing the best solution for solving this issue.

The 2I aims to inform about the problem of t illegal waste landfills in the municipality of Struga. It will undertake the mapping of illegal landfills and will raise the awareness about the problem among the citizens and responsible local authorities. The gathered evidence and the findings with recommendations will be used for the political party election program in Struga municipality.