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Using Local Resources for Microregional Development – Sustainable Agribusiness and Tourism in the Southern Balkans
SEEU, Tetovo, 9.12.2011
At SEEU premises in Tetovo, Association of units of self government of the Republic of Macedonia (ZELS) and SEE University organized a five day training session on the topic” Using local resources for micro regional development- sustainable agribusiness and tourism in the southern Balkans. The training sessions were scheduled for 7, 9, 12, 13, and 14 December, 2011.
The main purpose of the training was to raise the capacity of representatives from units of self government on the field of agriculture, forestry and tourism in order to secure a micro regional development.
The target groups are municipality employees within sectors of urbanism, municipality affairs, and those responsible for the environment. The trainings are part of the project Work packages that need to be performed by ZELS in cooperation with the three partner universities in Macedonia.
The participants come from the Polog and Northeast regions, as well as the municipalities of Dolneni, Struga, Debar, Zajas, Oslomej and Plasnica.
It is planned in the beginning, civil servants preferably agricultural or business graduates or professionals, representing all Macedonian municipalities to be trained during one week, by SEEUto become trainers. Therefore,representatives, agricultural forestry and environmental officers are gathered for a 5 day training in order to become trainers and eventually to disseminate the activities further in other settlements. After becoming trainers they will organize on their behalf training sessions in othersettlements of the Republic of Macedonia.
Therefore, the training is 5 day long and will cover different topics and will be finalised by a comprehensive exam leading to certificates for successful participants. Only successful participants may become trainers. Then in the most optimistic case the trained participants will go as trainers to villages for educating the farmers, the landowners and the public. 1 trainer will go to 5 village centres, then, each village centre’s public administration authority is supposed to gather participants from the rest of the 3 member villages each, in order to cover the prescribed settlements of Macedonia.