The Mayors with the best social inclusion practices, especially for Roma, will be awarded, and they will have an opportunity to cooperate and to upgrade their municipalities in The network Mayors Making the Most of EU Funds for Roma Inclusion Network (MERI). The initiative for this network is to Open Society Institute (OSI).

Fifteen participants from nine Roma organizations, on 15-16 March 2012 attended the Workshop for preparing the project proposals which were submitted to the Government of Republic of Macedonia (Unit for cooperation of the Government with NGOs).

Aleksandar Krzalovski, First Executive Director of MCIC, together with the partner organization “Mesecina” on 26 of January 2012 in Gostivar participated at the meeting with the Australian Ambassador Dr. Helena Gay Studert.

BBI Consortium provides technical support for the implementation of the project Support for the Implementation of the Roma Strategy, funded by the instrument for pre-accession assistance (IPA) programme from 2007 of the European Union.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) published its small grants call for proposal entitled: Support for Community-level Actions to Promote Inter-ethnic Dialogue, Peace and Security between Women/Vulnerable Groups of Women in FYR Macedonia.
The deadline for submission of concept notes: 19.06.2011.