The Office for Cooperation
with Civil Society The Office has been established as an institutional mechanism to support the development of a dialogue between the Serbian Government and CSO’s

Regulation on the Office for Cooperation with Civil Society (“Official Gazette RS”, No.26/10) defines the purview of the Office. The Office conducts technical affairs, as required by the Government, pertaining to ensuring the consistency of actions of public authorities and promoting the cooperation of public authorities with associations and other civil society organizations, including:

• Initiating dialogue with civil society on matters of mutual interest;
• Participating in the drafting and implementation of strategic documents pertaining to creating an enabling environment conducive to civil society development, with a view to further development of cooperation among the public, private and civil sectors and, in connection therewith, cooperation with autonomous provinces and local self-government units authorities;
• Initiating the adoption of regulations and other general legal instruments governing the status of associations and other civil society organizations, as the foundation for building a society based on democracy, inclusion and solidarity;
• Participating in the drafting of consolidated reports to the Government on the expenditure of funds that have been provided and paid to associations and other civil society organizations from the Republic of Serbia Budget in support of their programme activities;
• Organizing round-table discussions and conferences;
• Issuing publications and undertaking other measures and activities aimed at upgrading the capacities and raising the sustainability of associations’ and other civil society organizations’ operation and actions;
• Collecting and disseminating information relevant to associations’ and other civil society organizations’ operation;
• Conducting technical affairs pertaining to cooperation and exchange of experiences with similar governmental institutions in the region, European Union member states and the world;
• Cooperating with competent authorities in the conduct of affairs pertaining to the programming and management of European Union pre-accession and other funds for the support to civil society;
• Drafting of the preparation of acts which government supervises, directs and coordinates the activities of the ministries and special organizations that are related to issues of civil society and government cooperation with civil society, and the ways in which the public is informed of the activities aimed at the development of civil society and Government cooperation with civil societyCooperation with institutions of the Republic of Serbia, autonomous provinces and local self-government, municipalities, cities and City of Belgrade, as with associations and other CSO’s in the process of drafting of relevant documents and acts, related to development of civil society;
• Conducting of other responsibilities within the civil society framework delegated by Serbian Government