Movement FOL, expands its activities in the municipality of Podujeva and Gjakova

Podujeva – Gjakova, 26-27 April 2012 – Movement FOL has expanded its activities directly in the municipalities of Kosovo. In the last two days FOL through occasional ceremonies revealed the goals of expanding activities in Podujeva and Gjakova municipalities. Participants in the ceremony were representatives of local institutions, civil society, and representatives of political parties, media, business sector and citizens of these municipalities.

On this occasion the Executive Director of the Movement FOL Petrit Zogaj thanking the participants said that “after more than two years since the founding of the Movement FOL, whose main mission is the promotion of democratic governance, transparency and accountability of central institutions and now this movement will accomplish its mission more directly, through its expansion in the municipal level. “Movement FOL its decision to expand its activity in these municipalities based on the principle that “expanding our movement, we believe that will bring public supervision to local government level and to improve the existing situation of civil society and to have more effective research and advocacy in order to increase the transparency, accountability and promotion of local government reform, “said Petrit Zogaj. According to him “this is the best way for them to encourage citizens to express their grievances against vulnerable public policy and decisions coming from the misrule”.

The forms of misrule, mismanagement and malfunctioning of public institutions of central and local levels have led to reduce the confidence of citizens in the institutions and also have caused civic indifference to political, social and economic developments. Because of this ” Movement FOL, will focus on increasing public supervision over local government institutions in these two municipalities, encouraging active citizenship through involvement of relevant actors and citizens in decision making process,” said Petrit Zogaj.
These meetings have continued with discussions about the most suitable forms of advancing the level of cooperation between civil society, local government sector, media and other relevant sectors in promoting transparency, accountability and good governance in these municipalities.

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