Evaluating and Advancing the Practice of Municipal and City Managers in Serbia
PALGO Center, Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities
Almost 45 percent of Serbian municipalities employ a City / Municipal Manager. This city management position, originally created in USA, was adopted to bring a higher degree of professionalism to the day-to-day running of a city.
This project seeks to analyze the normative, functional and operational impacts the position of City Manager has had on the functioning of each city, with a special focus on their role as catalysts for economic development.
This project aims to create a systematic approach to the entrepreneurial and developmental oriented position of City Manager; to explore the competence of current City Managers and how they reflect the content of their work and their relationship to other governmental bodies; to identify problems and challenges in their work and identify areas where professional development may be needed; to create a network of City Managers in Serbia (and possibly connect that network to international ones); to encourage university and training programs for City Managers in Serbia.
This project is supported by Open Society Institute – LGI (Budapest)
Project period: December 15, 2006 to January 15, 2008
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