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Novi Grad  Municipality is one of the municipalities that managed to fulfil 10 very demanding criteria and more than 80 sub-criteria for improving the quality of services and information provided by local self-government units to businessmen and foreign investors.

Business Friendly Certification South East Europe (BFC SEE) is a unique regional program for improvement of competitiveness of local self-governments, which is implemented both in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region.

This program is aimed at cities and municipalities which have adequate capacities, which are strategically committed to improving the economic environment, attracting investments and encouraging the development of the local economy.

BFC SEE certification improves the work of the administration, develops mechanisms that are beneficial to investors, the private sector, and the public.

The program enables the inclusion of the economy in the development processes of municipality and municipal administration about the improvement of the economic environment.

Through the implementation of BFC SEE standards, investors are offered:

• safe investment location for investment
• partnership with local government
• business success and further development of the company
• competitiveness, benefits and additional business advantages.

Through Grant Fund Facility (GFF) under entrepreneurship-related activities which contributes the development and expansion of inclusive entrepreneurship models and aims the improvement of competitiveness on the local (municipal) level, International Labour Organisation (ILO), responsible for the entrepreneurship development within EU4Business project, calls for proposals in the sector of entrepreneurship development.

Call for Proposal aims to accelerate MSMEs and start-ups development, through the creation of mechanisms that will enable provision of financial and non-financial (technical) assistance to end users (new or existing entrepreneurs from target categories) and creation or further development of entrepreneurial infrastructure on the local or inter-municipal level.

Project priority sectors and target groups are divided in two LOTs as follows:

1. LOT1 will be provided to promote entrepreneurship within the export sector, focusing on young entrepreneurs and creation of innovative start-ups (including digital solutions);
2. LOT2 will be provided to promote entrepreneurship within agro-rural and tourism sector, focusing on entrepreneurs from vulnerable categories (unemployed and inactive women, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, persons over 50 years of age).

The overall indicative budget outline under this Call amount to EUR 1,000,000 (EURO one million), distributed between two LOTs.

Projects eligible for this Call for Proposal are those whose requested grant contribution falls between the following amounts:

• Minimal amount: EUR 150,000
• Maximal amount: EUR 200,000.

Distribution between LOTs:

1. For LOT 1 – total of EUR 600,000 available
2. For LOT 2 – total of EUR 400,000 available.

Participation in this call is open to qualified institutions as defined in the Local Employment Partnerships methodology (LEP), i.e. applicants MUST apply in partnerships.
The proposed projects are to be implemented on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina only. Project implemented within inter-municipal cooperation is eligible for funding.
In the first instance, Concept Notes and requested Annexes (Declaration of the Lead Applicant, Letter(s) of Understanding and registration document) must be submitted for evaluation and eligibility check. After the evaluation of the Concept Notes, eligible Applicants who have been pre-selected will be invited to submit a Full Application Form.

Info sessions related to the Call for Proposals will be held at five different locations as follows:

• BANJA LUKA, hotel Jelena – 16.04.2019. (11.00 – 14.00)
• BRČKO, hotel Jelena – 17.04.2019. (11.00 – 14.00)
• VITEZ, hotel Central – 18.04.2019. (11.00 – 14.00)
• SARAJEVO, UN House – 19.04.2019. (10.00 – 13.00)
• TREBINJE, hotel Leotar – 24.04.2019. (11.00 – 14.00)
• MOSTAR, hotel Bristol – 25.04.2019. (11.00 – 14.00)

All interested to take participation on these days should send an e-mail to: eu4business@ilo.org

Workshop for shortlisted applicants will be held before the submission of the Full Application. All Applicants will be informed on the evaluation results of both Concept Note and Full Application.

The deadline for the submission of Concept Note is 17 May 2019, by 17:00, local time. Date and time considered as evidence will be the date of email received by the ILO.

Any Concept Note submitted after the deadline, not prepared in accordance with these Guidelines or being incomplete will be rejected. The Applicants are advised not to wait the last day for the submission.

Clarification questions may be sent by e-mail no later than 30 April 2019 to the e-mail address eu4business@ilo.org.

Detailed information is available here.

Mayor of Novi Grad, Miroslav Drljača, has signed agreements with three users of incentives for self-employment, that will be allocated per 5.000,00 KM. The contracts were signed by Vesna Jankovic for producing hives, Husein Isakovic for the production of metal sheet and Fuad Žmirić for construction work.
The Mayor pointed out that the beneficiaries are selected on the basis of a public call for the start-up programs, and that, this year, budget for start-up program ( total amount of 20,000,00 KM) and for employment in enterprises (total amount of 40,000,00 KM) is provided by municipal budget.

The Mayor of Novi Grad Municipality announces Public call for submission of investment proposals for preparation of the Capital investment plan of Novi Grad Municipality 2019.-2021.  Representatives of local communities, entrepreneurs, businessmen, other organizations and legal entities as well as citizens are invited to submit their proposals for investments that will be incorporated into the three-year Capital investment plan.

The Public call and proposal templates you can find here.