“By participating in the drafting process, and now in the implementation of PRS as well, the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities directly contribute to enabling local self-governments to tackle with accumulated problems. As a level of authority closest to citizens, towns and municipalities have the particular responsibility to contribute to a faster improvement of life quality, by developing their own local strategic documents in which causes and possible solutions for poverty reduction will be identified.”

Đorđe Staničić,
Secretary General of the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities