NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION ALTERNATIVE KAKANJ

	Is the time of work actions in Bosnia and Herzegovina coming back?
	There is hope judging by these images, although the tools this time are not carried by girls from Bosnia and Herzegovina, but by students from USA and Canada. They came to work on neglected trails leading the royal town of Bobovac.

	Proclamation on including the „16 days of activism“ into the calendar of local events
	Forum of women of SDP Kakanj and NGO „Alternative“ Kakanj participated actively in the „16 days of activism against gender based violence“ campaign. This is an international project and movement aimed to increase awareness of systematic nature of violence against women as well as to point that gender based violence was a form of human rights violation. Since the campaign began in 1991, there have been over 2.800 organizations from 156 countries taking part in the campaign. It has had support of numerous local and national governments and the UN.

	International Voluntarism Day
	Third significant activity within „16 days of activism for elimination of violence against women“ campaign was organized by Forum of women of SDP Kakanj and NGO „Alternative“ Kakanj on d December 2009.

	International Day of Women Human Rights Defenders
	Forum of women of SDP Kakanj, NGO „Alternative“ Kakanj, Association of women of Kakanj – UŽOK and Association of women demobilised members of armed forces of Kakanj muncipality organized a seminar focused on women human rights defenders and women human rights in general.

	International Day for the elimination of violence against women
	By placing placards at visible places in urban and rural areas Forum of women of SDP Kakanj and NGO „Alternative“ Kakanj marked the 25th November - International Day for the elimination of violence against women. The objective of the activity was to draw attention of the public to and encourage it to think about violence against women. On the same day local media aired announcements about activities planned within the campaign.

	16 days of activism in Kakanj
	Forum of women of SDP Kakanj and NGO „Alternative“ Kakanj participate jointly in the implementation of the campaign “16 days of activism for the elimination of gender-based violence”. The plan of the campaign activities has been prepared and announced in local media.

	ISV and local volunteers completed planned activities at Bukovica excursion site
	On July 20 and 21 ISV and local volunteers completed activities at Bukovica excursion site and started works on the trail leading to the royal town of Bobovac. The volunteers cleaned the banks of Bukovica River, collected waste from the excursion site, painted and installed waste disposal barrels and painted and fixed both shades, tables and benches.

	ISV volunteers in visit to Sarajevo and Baščaršija
	On Sunday, 19.07.2009, NGO „Alternative“ organized for ISV volunteers a trip to Sarajevo.

	American students-volunteers in visit to Kakanj Cement
	ISV program is supported among others by Kakanj Cement Heidelberg Group. This was an additional reason to visit the company during its Open Day manifestation.

	ISV participants in visit to a primeval forest reserve in Kakanj
	Second group of American students-volunteers (ISV) continued working in the Trstionica – Žuča forest region which is proposed by Kakanj municipality to be protected under the Natural area protection law. Interestingly, the initiators of this activity are ŠPD ZDK – Šumarstvo Kakanj and work group for biodiversity and natural values within LEAP (Local ecological action plan) which is presided by Maksuma Topalović, executive director of NGO „Alternative“ Kakanj, which developed projects for ISV volunteers' participation. Besides Kakanj, ISV also has volunteers working in Banja Luka.

Cooperation between Local Governments and Citizens ------------------------------------------- Young people will monitor activities of municipal councils and provide public reports Towards a dynamic partnership between local governments and citizens Seminar "Communication strategy" How to achieve successful communication with citizens? Cooperation between citizens and local governments Strengthening of Cooperation between Local Governments and Citizens in Central BiH Municipalities Project "Strengthening of Cooperation between Local Governments and Citizens in 8 Central BiH Municipalities" continues in 2008 Citizens are interested in communication with local government Citizens ask – Councilors answer Mayor of Kakanj Municipality in Visit to NGO "Alternative" Cooperation strategy between local governments and citizens of 8 Central BiH municipalities Communication strategy Postcard questions delivered to councillors 3-day seminar in Neum How to improve communication with citizens? "The Olof Palme International Center" representatives in visit to NGO "Alternative" Successful communication skills Improving councillors’ communication skills Cooperation Strategy between Local Governments and Citizens of 8 Central BiH municipalities Municipalities of CBiH for Europe ------------------------------------------- Participative democracy process initiated by the project "Municipalities of the Central BiH for Europe" Workshops Councillor as a facilitator and Councillor as a leader Project "Municipalities of the Central BiH for Europe" is nearing its completion A new method of communication between councillors and citizens Citizens asked councillors! First educational cycle for councillors completed Workshop for councillors held in Busovača Councillor as a communicator workshop delivered Report from the workshop Councillor as a communicator held on May 20th 2006. Representatives of Delegation of the European Commission in BiH visited our organization Alternative uses the most modern methods of learning Workshops within the project Municipalities of the Central BiH for Europe Meeting with trainers Citizens, ask councillors Citizens, ask councillors! My qestion for councillor is... ToT seminar for trainers ToT in the project Municipalities of the Central BiH for Europe Municipalities of Central BiH for Europe STEP in the region of CBIH ------------------------------------------- Promotion of the first Tourist Guide of Kakanj and Zavidovići municipalities Educational cycle for householls successfully implemented How to receive guests properly? More natural and rural elements in the tourist offer of the Central BiH region Another week-end of May dedicated to improving tourist services Manifestation Save Bobovac 2006 Assessing the quality of tourist services Report form the workshop for households Contribution of NGO Alternative to the development of tourism in the region of CBiH Improvement of tourist services in the region of CBiH Alternative in Bobovac Strengthening of tourism through education and promotion in the region of central BiH – STEP in the region of CBiH Municipial representatives visiting NGO Alternative

Annual report 2006.

Strategy of communication of local governments with public

Report on the state of 176 cultural-historic monuments in Kakanj Municipality

Donators 1998 - 2008 (PDF)