Our Projects
LIST OF PROJECTS AND CONSULTING SERVICES
The main goal of the Strengthening Local Democracy Support Project is to strengthen the direct democracy mechanisms for citizen participation on local level. In order to fulfill the main goal, Strategic Development Consulting through research and participatory activities will analyze the available mechanisms for citizen participation and the current citizen practices for participation in the public policies creation and decision-making processes on local level.
The main goal of the “Evaluation services of the Bilateral Youth Cooperation Office Project” engagement is to measure and evaluate the impact and degree of effectiveness or success of the „Bilateral Youth Cooperation Office Project“-first and second phase. Strategic Development Consulting will measure and evaluate the impact of the activities on the project beneficiaries of the „Bilateral Youth Cooperation Office Project“, whose aim is to establish and foster cooperation among young people from North Macedonia and Greece by creating bilateral youth cooperation offices in both countries.
Strategic Development Consulting in the next four years period (2022-2026) will implement the project Business Support Organizations-Champions Activity. The purpose of the project aims to provide support to a targeted number of business support organizations (BSOs) to improve their services to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), so they improve existing and establish new business services; help their clients overcome the negative impact of the crisis; and promote women’s economic empowerment and economic equity.
CONDUCTING A SUMMATIVE EVALUATION OF THE USAID CIVIC ENGAGEMENT PROJECT (CEP) About the assignment Strategic Development Consulting as a subcontractor and local partner of “IMPAQ International” engaged by USAID provided expert and logistical support for conducting a summative evaluation of the “USAID Civic Engagement Project”. The purpose of the evaluation is to examine the effectiveness of civil society organizations supported from the CEP project and to be determent whether the project has achieved the planned results related to EU Accession, government transparency, anti-corruption and the rule of law.
Providing support from a local company to implement the USAID ENGAGEMENT strategy Through the new USAID Development and Cooperation Strategy with the Republic of Northern Macedonia 2021-2025, USAID is fully committed to continuing to support the country and to partner with local stakeholders USAID and will lead and fund sustainable […]
In cooperation with the USAID Business Ecosystem Project, Strategic Development Consulting (SDC) as its subcontractor, for a period of 4 years (2018-2021) worked on improving and developing the competitiveness and productivity of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) in North Macedonia by strengthening business services, finance and market links, primarily to business
“Support to Electoral Reforms in North Macedonia” is a project of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), implemented by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and its partner National Youth Council of Macedonia (NYCM). The project's overall objective (goal) is to support democratic and credible election processes that...
The overall goal of this project is to address the social challenges of the Roma population and the genders in North Macedonia through the implementation of a road project to identify the specific needs of the Roma and other men and women regarding the road infrastructure and the public transportation...
The experts from Strategic Development Consulting were part of the team for conducting the review of the Nansen Dialogue Center in North Macedonia and its intercultural education programs. The aim of these activities is to evaluate the limitations and possibilities for the current practical use of the Nansen...
With the aim to thematically deepen the understanding of migration issues among all relevant partners and stakeholders in the region, MARRI with the support of GIZ organized one workshop in each participant country member of MARRI. Participants where representatives of national administrations, local government, international organizations...
The aim of the regional project "Social rights of vulnerable groups" (SoRi) is to improve the conditions for providing equal social rights for social rights of vulnerable groups in selected municipalities from the West Balkans. Strategic development consulting provided services to GIZ for capacity building at the Forum for social dialogue from Tetovo that consisted of representatives from the NGOs, the municipality's...
In 2017, USAID/North Macedonia was selected as one of the three USAID Missions worldwide to receive funding to implement a "Local Works" program in North Macedonia The "Local Works" program focuses on the creativity and resources of local communities and on the availability of personal development. Per the "Local Works" guidance, USAID Missions begin by listening to a broad range of ordinary people and local organizations to ...
The UNDP's project "Preparation of reports to measure the quality of life" aims to systematically improve the design and delivery of local services and contribute for the improvement of the quality of life of the citizens in the country. The main goal is defined as "Design (and develop) system for evaluation and monitoring the impact of the services on the quality of life of the citizens at ...
The objective of this assignment is to build capacity of municipal authorities to develop Municipal Energy Efficiency Action Plans (MEEAPs) following the methodology used in development of two model MEEAPs. The objective is to be achieved through dissemination of results from Technical Assistance in Municipal Energy Efficiency Promotion project – including model MEEAPs, PFSs, case studies, guidance notes, etc. in a series...
“Establishment of Business Inclusion Project in Multi-Ethnic Communities” is a two year project providing support to new businesses owned by youth and women in rural multi-ethnic communities in the Republic of Macedonia. The support is focused on the process of establishing and developing micro businesses, developing the appropriate products and services, marketing ...
The program "Forums in the community" is a ten year project that provides a participatory platform for development whose main goal is to promote and improve good governance and democracy on local level. This is done by providing support to the local authorities and the administration through the increase of their transparency and responsibility towards the community, as well as providing active participation of the citizens in the ...