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The New Ideas For Old Buildings (2015-2016)

  • Zelena Istra

The New Ideas For Old Buildings project focuses on improving public property management by helping municipalities use public participation in decision-making about real estate occupancy. The project gathers seven small and medium-sized towns from six countries from the Baltic to the Balkans (Latvia...

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One Adriatic (2016)

  • Zelena Istra

The common goal of the One Adriatic platform was to protect the Adriatic Sea from oil industry research, exploitation and pollution. The platform gathered representatives of the most important environmental organizations from all Adriatic countries: Italy (Legambiente), Slovenia (Focus), Croatia (G...

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Participatory Budgeting: Citizens' Subnational Budget Watch (2015-2016)

  • Zelena Istra

"Participatory Budgeting: Citizens' Subnational Budget Watch" was an EU-funded project with a 200,000 EUR budget whose aim was to develop and introduce innovative e-tools to improve transparency and citizens' participation in the allocation of budget funds in three Croatian cities: Pula, Karlovac an...

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PINS: Public Interest - Not for Sale (2013-2014)

  • Zelena Istra

Abstract: Project aimed to develop new anti-corruption models and to reaffirm public interest in decision-making processes, while enhancing civil society and government capacities for fighting corruption by increasing transparency, accessibility of information, and citizen participation/oversight o...

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Regulating and promoting public participation in EIA in selected pilot provinces and municipalities in China (2013-2014)

  • Zelena Istra

Abstract: We were partners in a project aimed at regulating and promoting public participation in EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) in China. The overall objectives of the project were to improve the quality, transparency and effectiveness of EIA by setting up clearly defined procedures for pub...

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Corruption SONAR (Spatial Planning and Natural Resources) (2013-2014)

  • Zelena Istra

Corruption SONAR (Spatial Planning and Natural Resources) -- Detecting and Fighting Corruption through Public Participation Abstract: Project SONAR intended to enhance the impact of CSOs in the fight against corruption in the governance of space and other natural resources in Croatia. More specifi...

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Separate it all! (2015-present date)

  • Zelena Istra

For five years, Green Istria and the utility company “6 May” have been actively conducting a campaign on separate waste collection in the Bujština area in Istria County. The campaign, “Izdvoji sve. Fai la differenza” [‘Separate it all’] has already held a number of educational and promotional activi...

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Green Phone: Helping Croatian citizens protect nature and the environment for 20 years (1997-present date)

  • Zelena Istra

The Green Phone is an environmental service which Green Istria has been offering to citizens--free of charge--since 1997.  The aim of the Green Phone is to encourage citizens to actively participate in environmental protection and to encourage responsible institutions to do their duty to respond to...

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DEAR - Financing development and developing finance for EYD2015 (2015-2017)

  • Zelena Istra

Financing development and developing finance for EYD2015: a Pan-European campaign to align European investments in developing countries with the post-2015 MDG framework and the EU policies that promote sustainable growth and poverty reduction. Abstract: This project aims to bring development issue...

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Civil Dialogue for Better Environment (2014-2015)

  • Zelena Istra

The objectives of the project were to improve the implementation of the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters - the Aarhus Convention in Croatia.  The Aarhus Convention is the most powerful weapon in the hands of ...

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