Civil society

Activities in civil society sector
* Public campaigns and advocacy
* Development public-private partnership
* Democratization and development of civil society
* Organizing the trainings and consulting services in fields of public campaigns, advocacy, democratization, human rights, presentations and facilitations, organizational viability
* Protection of human rights, women’s rights, minority rights
* Promotion of Rule of law
* Capacity building
* Integrated minority returnee projects

Mission of LIR is to implement, catalyze and coordinate development projects and to offer consulting services for the realization of development objectives.

LIR is committed to promote economic and social development, environment protection, rule of law, and human rights in the region.

LIR’s operations increasingly focus on improving the legal and policy environment for development in Bosnia and Herzegovina, for example, through policy-based projects, programs and researches.

LIR’s mission is to encourage social-inclusive projects and programs and to support the initiatives that improve status of women and other vulnerable groups by strengthening civil society’s capacity building to enforce legal frameworks and enforcement mechanisms.

LIR aims to advance women’s rights and gender equality through its programs and projects within the Civil Society Program. It promotes rule of law, good governance and human rights related projects and programs which are focused on reducing discrimination and violence against women in economic, social and political sphere.

LIR’s goal is the synergies between sectors, the sectors are interlinked covering relevant project components of appropriate sector at the local and regional level.

Pending projects to be funded by European Commission:
The Strengthening of partnership between Civil Society Organisations and Public Authorities to enhance the protection of national minorities - RESPECT MINORITY RIGHTS.
To respect Women’s land rights

PROJECTS
-AGRI – TRAINING “Training, Cooperation and knowledge in Rural Development” EC - Adriatic New Neighbourhood Programme INTERREG IIIA/CARDS-PHARE
* to stimulate the cross border cooperation among public and private actors, in order to foster the integration, the exchange of information, best practices and experience, with the aim to create a rural development in line with the strategic objectives of the Europeanrural policy involving women from rural area;
* to develop and increase operating training systems in rural areas involving women, by supporting developing stages that rural economies will be in need in the coming years;

- Mercy Corps, Tuzla -
* implementation of project “Economic and social reintegration survived landmines victims in BiH” LOT 7 (municipalities Bihać, Cazin, Bužim and Velika Kladuša)

-SNV Neterlands Development Organization-
* Organization of wood procesors claster – Association of wood procesors Mrkonjić Grad
* Strategic planning and Project Cycle Management trainings, help in making strategic plan – National park “Kozara”
* Organization of wood procesors claster – Association of wood procesors Prijedor
* Strategic planning and Project Cycle Management trainings, help in making strategic plan – Association of private forest-owners “Naša šuma”

- UNDP PRO Novi Pazar –
* Implementation of local government trainings of “Municipal Development in South West Serbia, second phase” (PRO II) Program