Organization for Civil Initiatives

STRUCTURE OF THE ORGANIZATION Assembly : memberrs of the organization, 22 adult persons - President of the Assembly - Management board - Executive board: consists of executive and development director and prigram / project managers. - Executive director - Development director - Implementation teams According to the needs and possibilities of the organization and in concordance with the organization's Statute, Rules on organization and systematization of work positions and salaries, OCI hires persons for implementation of the activities. Hired persons can have following status: full-time employee, part-time employee, honorary employee and volunteer. For managing accounting and book-keeping OCI has its own employee and book-keeping service. They handle total financial functioning of the organization. We have 7 employees. Budgetary resources available in a year are cca 230.000E. Sources of funding: European Commission – PHARE European Commission – CARDS Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, USA Balkan Trust for Democracy/German Marshall fund NessT - Budapest Croatian Government National foundation for civil society development Regional and local selfgoverment Embassys in Croatia Modalities of action Organizing and implementing educational programs - trainings Organizing and implementing campaigns Organizing and implementing of tribunes Writing and publishing publications Providing trainer / consultant services Providing expert and technical support in organizing and implementation of activities in communities Providing finacial support for NGOs and local civil initiatives through public tenders Organizing and implementing of public advocacy Organizing and implementing of conferences Informing the citizens etc. Providing pro bono legal advices for citizens Organizing and implementing researches Implementation of monitoring Implementation of evaluations Main partners involved in the organization's projects/activities Goverment - Competent ministries, public institutions, local and regional selfgoverment, and other NGOs and networks that we are a member of.