BELGRADE – RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša and RYCO Local Branch Officer in Serbia Ms Marija Bulat held a meeting with Executive Director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy (BTD) Ms Gordana Delić and Senior Program Officer of BTD Ms Nataša Petrović on Friday, 8 September when they discussed mutual cooperation between the two organizations.
BTD has been actively supporting RYCO in the process of strategic planning which aims to result with a the organization’s Strategic Plan 2018-2020 to be adopted by the beginning of the next year. Moreover, as a part of the process, BTD will support research activities of RYCO which will be conducted all across WB6 with young people and relevant stakeholders. The research will serve RYCO to set indicators for measuring long term effects and impact of its future programs.
Ms Delić and Ms Petrović informed RYCO representatives on plans of BTD for the region in the forthcoming period and expressed their willingness to have RYCO as a partner for their future projects.
Mr Blanuša and Ms Bulat presented current activities of RYCO related to the development of first grant scheme to be launched in October this year.