From the 21st - 23rd of June 2009, in the Inex Gorica Hotel – Ohrid, was a training for unemployment women and youth on the topic of, “What is a business plan and how to make it?”

The training contained three modules:

1. What is a business plan and how to make?
2. Finalization the draft version of the business plans for starting a self-run business.
3. Finance management (possible sources for getting funds for the realization of a business idea).

The remaining two trainings for unemployment women and youth from East,alt South-East Polog and South-west planning regions, will be held at the end of August. The training included 20 women from all four regions including six from the East Planning Region.

These trainings, which introduce the structure of the business plan, from idea to implementation, offer the hope to help unemployment women to start their own business and create opportunities for self-employment.

In June, the Centre for Development of the East Planning Region implemented the project “Making a network of partners and promoting common sustainable value”. The project consisting of visiting Units of Local Governmental and working-meetings with represents from the NGO, public,  and private sectors.

Working-meetings started on the 4^th of June 2009 with the Municipalities of Delchevo  and Makedonska  Kamenica . On the 15^th of June working-meetings took place in the Municipalities of Pehchevo and Berovo, June 29^th with the Municipality of Probishtip and Municipalities of Vinica and Zrnovci on June 30th. These meeting were very well attended which provides much momentum for regional cooperation.

On the 19^th of June in Brana Gratche hotel in Kochani, the Council for Development of the East Planning Region held it’s third meeting. Mr. Ratko Dimitrovski. the president of the Council for development on East planning region chaired the meeting in which all 11 Mayors from the East Region attended.

After adopting the minutes of the previous meeting the Council reviewed the proposed action plan for the 2009 - 2013 program for Development of the East Planning Region. The meeting set a constructive atmosphere with the proposal of many high quality regional projects.

The next meeting of the Council will be on the 6th of July 2009 and will continue the discussion related to next steps for regional cooperation and development.

On the 12th of June 2009 in the Aleksandar Palace Hotel in Skopje the conference “Role of Women in Legal and Economic Reform in Macedonia”, was organized by GTZ, the Lawyers Association of Macedonia and the Regional Centers for Development of the East, South-east and Polog regions.

More than 100 women from different sectors took part in the conference with the aim to exchange experience and present successful examples of women’s role in legal and economic reform in Macedonia. The conference also emphasized the important role women have in leading economic and legal reform and the need to strengthen this role in Macedonian society.

On the 28^th of May, the Centre for Development of the East Planning Region in cooperation with GTZ RED and the YES incubator, hosted a workshop on topic: Possible instruments for supporting the employment of young people and women in the Republic of Macedonia on local and regional level.

Thirty-five participant from NGO’s, the Agency for Unemployment, Foundation for Microcredit and other stakeholders from East Planning Region.

On May 10^th in the Municipality of Shtip a meeting of the Council for Development of East Planning Region was held. Presiding at the meeting was the Mayor of Municipality of Shtip Dr. Zoran Aleksov.

On the meeting there were all mayors of the eleven municipalities from the region:

• Dr. Zoran Aleksov, the Mayor of the Municipality of Shtip - chairman of the constitutive meeting,
• Mr. Toni Tonevski, the Mayor of the Municipality of Probishtip,
• Mr. Vasil Bogdanski the Mayor of the Municipality of Karbinci,
• Mr. Blaze Stankov the Mayor of the Municipality of Zrnovci,
• Mr. Emil Donchev the Mayor of the Municipality of Vinica,
• Mr.Jovancho Stanoevski the Mayor of the Municipality of Pehchevo,
• Mr. Jordancho Levkov the Mayor of the Municipality of Chesinovo-Obleshevo,
• Mr.Dragi Nadzinski the Mayor of the Municipality of Berovo,
• Mr. Goran Maleshevski the Mayor of the Municipality of Delchevo,
• Mr. Darko Mitevski the Mayor of the Municipality of Makedonska Kamenica,
• Mr. Ratko Dimitrovski the Mayor of the Municipality of Kochani.

Promotional Tour of the Center in municipalities within the region - Part of the program activities of the Centre for the Development of the Eastern Region during the month of May, is a promotional tour that employees are planning to implement in the municipalities within the region ...