COMMENT

Together for transparency

The holidays have come and go. It was a chance for each one of us to put aside, at least for a while, the things that had been going on before. We greeted and said farewell to the Olympics. Besides the politics (which has become kind of fashion that surprises nobody), much has been talked about the civic sector. Who spends how much, where the money go, who takes what, who and why finances it, and a number of other questions that are from time to time referred to the civil society organizations.

Some time ago, a group of civil society organizations have made the first step (although they do it regularly as a way of encouraging the others), that is, they have published their annual reports, the financial reports and the independent auditors' findings. For the first time, the Association for Democratic Initiatives (ADI) - Gostivar; the Macedonian Enterprise Development Foundation (MEDF); the Macedonian Centre for International Cooperation (MCIC); the First Children Embassy in the World - Medjasi; The Union of Macedonian Women Organization (UMWO); the Foundation Open Society Institute Macedonia (FOSIM); the Centre for Civic Initiative (CCI) from Prilep and the Nansen Dialogue Centre, have jointly published their reports in order to contribute to the transparency of the civil society organizations' work and to improve the efficiency of the civic sector in general.

We hope that in time, those that continuously "attack" the civic sector will understand the work of the civil society organizations and free themselves of the distrust they have had so far, deliberate or not. This should also serve as an incentive for the other subjects  - state, public or private, to start publishing the results of their work, so that we can have a more transparent society.

Let's give our contribution - together for transparency!

 

Gramoz Shabani