PREPORUKE

RECOMMENDATIONS
of the First Forum of the Yugoslav Non-Governmental Organizations, held in Belgrade on June 11-13th, 1998

PREAMBLE

Non-governmental organizations, in accordance with their strategic goal of building the civil society, advocate the peaceful solution of all social conflicts, especially in Kosovo, without violence and discrimination, through dialogue of all parties in conflicts, with participation and desirable mediation of non-governmental organizations. Non-governmental organizations strongly oppose the military solution of the conflict in Kosovo.

Non-governmental organizations, as an autonomous social force, demand the withdrawal of all actions limiting the independence of other autonomous institutions - such as university and media and, without hesitation, support changes in Yugoslavia.

A/ RECOMMENDATIONS FOR NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

A/1 General recommendations

1. Strengthening the cooperation of non-governmental organizations through an exchange of information and experience and joint projects.

2. Undertaking minor joint actions in all of Yugoslavia by using the sectoral, territorial and other models.

3. Building the organizational infrastructure, especially the voluntary sector, in non-governmental organizations.

4. Developing the mechanisms for non-governmental organizations to act in urgent cases (e.g. humanitarian, ecological cases, violation of human rights, etc...).

5. Strengthening the solidarity and mutual trust between non-governmental organizations.

6. Establishing the ethical code of non-governmental organizations.

A/2 Recommendations for improving the status of non-governmental organizations

1. Common action in solving the status problems of non-governmental organizations with state bodies and supported by local self-governing.

2. Lobbying in public for the improvement of the legal status and general activity of non-governmental organizations.

3. Developing the programs that could provide self-financing of the non-governmental sector, with insisting upon the necessary tax exemptions or special regulation of the tax legislation in the domain of the non-profit sector.

A/3 Recommendations for the relations of NGOs with state-institutions and local authorities

1. Initiating and developing the correct relationship with state-institutions and local authorities.

2. Establishing, by common action, a more efficient approach of NGOs to the state bodies (federal, republican, local), with the goal of improving the solution of social problems.

A/4 Recommendations for the relations of NGOs with scientific and educational institutions

1. Developing research programs in order to enhance the activity of non-governmental organizations.

2. Developing various forms of education of the professionals for work in the non-profit sector.

3. An active use of professionals and the work results of scientific and educational institutions.

A/5 Recommendations for the public relations of NGOs

1. Developing an active relationship with the media, i.e., developing all forms of public activity of non-governmental organizations.

2. Developing programs for a direct communication with citizens, spreading information on one's work and promoting civil initiatives.

B/ RECOMMENDATIONS TO STATE BODIES

1. Cancelling legal and other acts related to the non-profit sector that do not correspond to the present moment and passing new regulations - primarily, the laws on citizens' associations on the federal and republican levels.

2. Adopting necessary changes in the domain of the legal regulation of the status and administration of the non-profit sector.

3. Legal regulation of the status and administration of foreign and international organizations willing to work in the FR Yugoslavia.

4. Giving incentives to the profit organizations for broader financing of the non-profit sector with the strict application of acts on tax exemptions legally applicable in these cases.

5. Introducing tax exemptions for the non-profit organizations independently financing their programs without making profit.

6. Developing permanent programs of supporting the non-profit sector by local authorities through providing locations, finacial and public support.

7. Financing the non-profit sector from the budget, through open competition and the criteria equal for all non-profit organizations on the federal, republican and local levels.

8. Developing a positive general atmosphere for developing the non-profit sector through: a) opening state institutions for contacts with non-profit organizations; b) opening the state media for monitoring the work of non-profit organizations; c) ceasing the practice of representing the non-profit sector as "anti-state".

C/ RECOMMENDTAIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL AND FOREIGN ORGANIZATIONS AND DONORS

1. Preventing the imposition of sanctions for citizens and non-profit sector in order to stop the further deterioration of the democratic resources in the Yugoslav society.

2. Providing a direct support to the development of infrastructure and strengthening the capacity of the non-profit sector through technical, professional and financial support by establishing and adjusting its programs of support to realistic local needs and conditions.

3. Developing the long-term programs of support and establishing the stable institutions of the civil society, against the insecure short-term or ad hoc programs of support.

D/ RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE MEDIA

1. Organizing the systematic monitoring of the work of non-governmental organizations.

2. Including the thematic media programs on the work of non-governmental organizations.

3. Including journalists in the programs of non-governmental organizations for education of journalists, aiding their monitoring of the work of non-governmental organizations.

In Belgrade, June 13th, 1998

PREPORUKE
sa Prvog Foruma jugoslovenskih nevladinih organizacija odrzanog u Beogradu od 11. do 13. juna 1998.

PREAMBULA

Nevladine organizacije, u skladu sa svojim strateškim ciljem stvaranja civilnog društva, zalazu se za to da se svi društveni konflikti, a posebno sukob na Kosovu, rešavaju mirnim putem, bez nasilja i diskriminacije, dijalogom svih strana u sukobu, uz ucešce i pozeljnu medijaciju nevladinih organizacija. Nevladine organizacije su odlucno protiv rešavanja kosovoskog sukoba putem rata.

Nevladine organizacije, kao autonomna društvena snaga, zahtevaju da se zaustave procesi gušenja samostalnosti i drugih autonomnih društvenih institucija - univerziteta i medija, odnosno da se bez oklevanja otvori proces promena u Jugoslaviji.

A/ PREPORUKE ZA NEVLADINE ORGANIZACIJE

A/1 Opšte preporuke

1. Jacati saradnju izmedu nevladinih organizacija kroz razmenu informacija i iskustava i kroz zajednicke projekte.

2. Sprovodenje manjih zajednickih akcija na nivou cele Jugoslavije povezivanjem po sektorskom, teritorijalnim i drugim modelima.

3. Izgradnja organizacijske infrastrukture u nevladinim organizacijam, posebno volonterskog sektora.

4. Razvijanje mehanizama za reagovanje veceg broja nevladinih organizacija u hitnim slucajevima (humanitarni, ekološki, slucajevi povrede ljudskih prava i dr.)

5. Jacanje solidarnosti medu nevladinim organizacijama i jacanje medusobnog poverenja

6. Izrada etickog kodeksa nevladinih organizacija

A/2 Preporuke za poboljšanje statusa nevladinih organizacija

1. Zajednicko delovanje na rešavanju statusnih problema nevladinih organizacija kod drzavnih organa uz podršku lokalnih samouprava.

2. Zastupanje u javnosti potrebe poboljšanja pravnog okvira za poslovanje i opšte delovanje neprofitnih organizacija.

3. Razvijanje programa koji bi omogucili delimicno samofinansiranje nevladinog sektora, uz insistiranje na neophodnim poreskim olakšicama ili posebnog regulisanja poreskog zakonodavstva u domenu neprofitnog sektora.

A/3 Preporuke za odnos NVO sa drzavnim institucijama i organima lokalne vlasti

1. Iniciranje i razvijanje korektnih odnosa sa drzavnim institucijama i organima lokalne vlasti.

2. Zajednickim nastupom graditi efikasniji pristup NVO prema drzavnim (saveznim, republickim, lokalnim) organima u cilju boljeg rešavanja društvenih problema.

A/4 Preporuke za odnos NVO prema naucnim i obrazovnim institucijama

1. Razvijanje istrazivackih programa u funkciji veceg aktivizma nevladinih organizacija.

2. Razvijati razne vidove edukacije profesionalnih kadrova za rad u neprofitnom sektoru.

3. Aktivnije korišcenje profesionalnih kadrova i rezultata rada naucnih i obrazovnih institucija.

A/5 Preporuke za odnos NVO prema javnosti

1. Razvijanje aktivnog odnosa prema medijima odnosno razvijanje svih oblika javnog delovanja nevladinih organizacija.

2. Razvijanje programa za neposrednu komunikaciju sa gradanima, širenje informacija o svom radu i promocija gradanskih inicijativa.

B/ PREPORUKE DRZAVNIM ORGANIMA

1. Ukidanje zakonskih i drugih odredbi vezanih za neprofitni sektor koji ne odgovaraju sadašnjem trenutku i donošenje novih propisa, pre svega, zakona o udruzenjima gradana na saveznom i republickom nivou.

2. Prihvatanje neophodnih izmena u oblasti pravnog regulisanja statusa i poslovanja neprofitnog sektora.

3. Pravno regulisanje statusa i poslovanja inostranih i medunarodnih organizacija koje zele da rade u SR Jugoslaviji.

4. Davanje podsticaja profitnim organizacijama za šire finansiranje neprofitnog sektora uz striktnu primenu odredaba o poreskim olakšicama koje se u tim slucajevima imaju primeniti na osnovu zakona.

5. Uvodenje poreskih olakšica za neprofitne organizacije koje samostalno finansiraju svoje programe bez ostvarivanja profita.

6. Razvijanje stalnih programa podrške neprofitnom sektoru od strane lokalnih organa vlasti kroz dodelu prostora, finansijsku i javnu podršku.

7. Omogucavanje finansiranja neprofitnog sektora iz budzetskih sredstava kroz sprovodjenje javnih konkursa na osnovu kriterijuma jednakih za sve neprofitne organizacije, kako na saveznom i republickom, tako i na lokalnom nivou.

8. Razvijanje pozitivne opšte društvene atmosfere za razvoj neprofitnog sektora kroz a) otvoranje drzavnih institucija za kontakte sa neprofitnim organizacijama, b) otvaranje drzavnih medija za pracenje rada neprofitnih organizacija, c) prekidanje sa prikazivanjem neprofitnog sektora kao "antidrzavnog".

C/ PREPORUKE ZA MEÐUNARODNE I INOSTRANE ORGANIZACIJE I DONATORE

1. Sprecavanje uvodenja sankcija za gradane i neprofitni sektor kako bi se zaustavilo dalje propadanje demokratskih resursa u jugoslovenskom društvu.

2. Davanje direktne podrške razvoju infrastrukture i jacanje kapaciteta neprofitnog sektora kroz tehnicku, strucnu i finansijsku podršku tako što ce svoje programe podrške zasnivati i prilagoditi stvarnim lokalnim potrebama i lokalnim uslovima.

3. Razvijanje dugorocnih programa podrške i izgradnja stabilnih institucija civilnog društva, nasuprot nesigurnih kratkorocnih ili ad hoc programa podrške.

D/ PREPORUKE ZA MEDIJE

1. Uvodenje sistematskog pracenja rada nevladinih organizacija

2. Ukljucivanje u medijske programe tematskih emisija o radu nevladinih organizacija

3. Ukljucivanje novinara u programe nevladinih organizacija za edukaciju novinara koja bi im pomogla u pracenju rada nevladinih organizacija.

U Beogradu, 13. juna 1998. godine

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