NGO Directory of South Eastern Europe A Directory and Survey Findings of West Balkan Environmental Civil Society Organisations Fifth Edition NGO Directory of South Eastern Europe A Directory and Survey Findings of West Balkan Environmental Civil Society Organisations Fifth Edition Edited by RICHARD FILCAK and ROBERT ATKINSON Szentendre, Hungary DECEMBER 2006 About the REC The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) is a non-partisan, non-advocacy, not-for-profit international organisation with a mission to assist in solving environmental problems in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The center fulfils this mission by promoting cooperation among non-governmental organisations, governments, businesses and other environmental stakeholders, and by supporting the free exchange of information and public participation in environmental decision making. The REC was established in 1990 by the United States, the European Commission and Hungary. Today, the REC is legally based on a charter signed by the governments of 28 countries and the European Commission, and on an international agreement with the government of Hungary. The REC has its head office in Szentendre, Hungary, and country offices and field offices in 17 beneficiary countries, which are: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey. Recent donors are the European Commission and the governments of Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as other inter-governmental and private institutions. The entire contents of this publication are copyright ©2006 The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe No part of this publication may be sold in any form or reproduced for sale without prior written permission of the copyright holder ISBN: 963 9638 10 2 Published by: The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe Ady Endre ut 9-11, 2000 Szentendre, Hungary Tel: (36-26) 504-000, Fax: (36-26) 311-294, E-mail: [email protected], Web site: <www.rec.org> Printed in Hungary by Typonova This and all REC publications are printed on recycled paper or paper produced without the use of chlorine or chlorine-based chemicals TABLE OF CONTENTS Abbreviations 4 Acknowledgements 5 Map of the Western Balkans 7 Example of an NGO Profile 8 How to use this Directory 9 Introduction 11 NGO directory online 19 Questionnaire 21 Albania 24 Bosnia and Herzegovina 55 Croatia 91 Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 121 Montenegro 146 Serbia 162 Kosovo (territory under interim UN administration) 204 Index I: List of NGOs 233 Index II: NGOs listed by topics of work 238 Annex: Questionnaire Part B 275 NGO DIRECTORY 3 ABBREVIATIONS BIH Bosnia and Herzegovina CARDS Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development and Stabilisation CEE Central and Eastern Europe CSO Civil society organisation ECSO Environmental civil society organisation EC European Commission EIA Environmental impact assessment EU European Union IPPC Integrated pollution prevention and control LEAP Local environmental action plan NGO Non-governmental organisation REC Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe SECTOR Supporting Environmental Civil Society Organisations in South Eastern Europe SEE South Eastern Europe SEA Strategic environmental assessment Sida Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency UN United Nations UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNMIK United Nations Mission in Kosovo 4 NGO DIRECTORY Acknowledgements The development and preparation of such a tionnaires, carried out in-country interviews, publication and its content represents a analysed data and wrote up the various coun- major effort by a broad range of people, try findings comprised the following people: especially considering that the endeavour Adriana Craciun, Dana Carmen Romanescu, was centred around making the directory as Jerome Simpson, Stephen Stec, Robert Atkin- well as a wider survey and assessment of son, Richard Filcak, Orsolya Szalasi, Kaidi Tin- the environmental civil society movement gas and Magdolna Toth-Nagy. Szilvia Pandi in the Western Balkans. In addition, the Szegedi collected and processed data into elec- whole process was compressed into a chal- tronic format and made it possible to analyse lenging six-month period. As such, the the wealth of information from the question- many people involved in the survey and the naires. Erzsebet Aszalos, Entela Pinguli and publication’s development should be Todd Schenk gave additional support and Las- acknowledged for all of their hard work, zlo Leitold was very helpful with the financial especially those who showed their commit- administration of the project. Special thanks ment despite illness or personal loss. goes to David Currie with his help on the Thanks should go first and foremost to the Indexes and Professor JoAnn Carmin from the project’s sponsor, the Swedish International Massachusetts Institute of Technology gave Development Co-operation Agency (Sida) some valuable advice on the questionnaire. and its supportive staff, namely Helen The coordination of the directory and sur- Holm and Magdalena Svensson, who vey at the country level was handled by the enabled and encouraged the REC to include REC’s country and field offices. Without this publication as part of a larger project of them the survey could not have been com- support for South Eastern European (SEE) pleted so swiftly, and the following people environmental civil society organisations should be credited for their contribution: (the SECTOR programme). REC Country Office Albania Thanks should also go to the hundreds of Mihallaq Qirjo, Alken Myftiu and Genta environmental groups who filled in the sur- Hoxta vey questionnaire and/or took part in the personal interviews. It is for them that the REC Country Office Bosnia directory and survey were largely devel- and Herzegovina oped and we hope it serves its purpose. A Nesad Seremet, Inka Sehovic and Jasmina broad range of over 100 other stakeholders Islambegovic from government, CSO support organisa- REC Country Office Croatia tions, experts and donors also took part in Irena Brnada, Dalia Matijevic and Bojan the interviews; we thank them all. Sliskovic The following people were instrumental in the REC Country Office former Yugoslav design and execution of the overall survey: Republic of Macedonia The core group of REC staff who developed Katarina Stojkovska, Valentina Petrusevska the survey methodology, designed the ques- and Stole Georgiev NGO DIRECTORY 5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS REC Country Office Montenegro Srna Sudar Vilotic and Mira Puric REC Country Office Serbia Milan Dacic, Uros Miloradovic and Aleksandra Mladenovic REC Field Office Kosovo Zeqir Veselaj, Pravena Firza and Merita Fazliu Mehmed For the directory publication, the following people were instrumental in its production: Layout and design were performed by Patricia Barna and Robert Adam, supported by Sylvia Magyar. The text was copy-edited by David Landry and Steven Graning and proofread by Michael Lindsay and Greg Spencer. Emese Gal supported the process of the publication’s production. 6 NGO DIRECTORY MAP OF THE REGION BELARUS POLAND GERMANY CZECH UKRAINE REPUBLIC SLOVAKIA AUSTRIA HUNGARY SLOVENIA ROMANIA CROATIA BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA SERBIA Adriatic Sea KOSOVO (territory under interim BULGARIA MONTENEGROG UN administration) FFORMERORMER YYUGOSLAVUGOSLAV ITALY REPUBLICREPUBLIC OOFF TURKEY MACEDONIAMACEDONIA ALBANIA GREECE Aegean Sea TURKEY Ionian Sea NGO DIRECTORY 7 EXAMPLE OF A CSO PROFILE KRUMË, HAS Protection of Environment (PE, MM) CSO’s name in CSO’s name in local English and abbreviation language (most Mbrojtja e Mjedisit commonly used Krumë, Has, Albania abbreviated name) Contact information Tel: (355) 214-2403 including: address, telephone and fax Fax: (355) 214-2403 numbers, e-mail address Individual responsible E-mail: [email protected] and internet URL for the organisation as a legal entity Leader: Jahir Cahani, executive director Year CSO was Contact person: Iljaz Fejza, project coordinator Main contact person founded and Year of foundation: 2001 registered Year of registration: 2001 Type of registration Type of registration: Association Number of employees: 5 Number of employees, Number of members: 205 members and volunteers in the CSO Number of volunteers: 45 Annual budget: EUR 5,001-10,000 Annual budget of Source of CSO organisation funding* Source of funding: FS1, FS5, FS6, FS9, FS10 CSO priority Main topics: T3, T4, T11, T12, T13, T14, T17, T22, work topics* T24, T25 CSO priority Activities: A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A10, A11, A14, key activities* A18, A19, A20, A22, A24 Level the CSO works Level of activity: local, regional (region within the at (local, national or country), national international)* Member of umbrella organisations: Protection of Membership in Environment, Tirana umbrella organisations Languages (other than native) written Languages: English or spoken Key publications: Examples of • Participation on drawing the Strategy for Kukës key publications region on Environmental Issues and Situations in Kukës, 2003. • Leaflets for protection of environment, 2004. • Training handbook: Increase