Dragana Stojanovic’s Updates

Week 1 - Community Assignment - SRH Serbia

I am executive director of Serbian Association for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRH Serbia), member association of International Planned Parenthood Federation – IPPF, a global leader in providing reproductive health and rights services.

The association works towards achieving a discrimination free, gender equal and pro-choice environment in which young people will be able to develop, prosper and make informed decisions regarding various aspects of life, including sexual and reproductive health. It also entails raising awareness on HIV/AIDS and embracing the differences. SRH Serbia is a  (Pirot, Bujanovac, Leskovac), as well as MoUs and various joint activities with sister/partner NGOs which enables our work in other big cities in Serbia (Novi Sad, Kragujevac, Zaječar, etc.)

The aim of our remote partnering plan, having in mind that Association is based in Belgrade, but has local reach with office in Niš and a network of volunteers and NGO partners covering different cities, is to improve partnership with local NGOs and joint implementation of the projects. We would like to establish strategic partnerships focused on developed methods for giving and receiving constructive and effective feedback that will help all of us to achieve more success. Even we have an operational system for work with remote partners we would like to explore new ways of connecting to each other and influencing the programme.