Eight years ago, Konekt association recognized something that maybe a few of us wanted to say out loud, that financial sustainability is not a challenge for one organization, but a common issue of the whole civil sector. This idea grew into an initiative to unite twenty CSOs around joint advocacy…
On 16th March 2025, at “Puls” night club in Kochani, the fire caused by pyrotechnical devices engulfed the whole venue within minutes and claimed sixty-three lives, leaving more than hundred injured people. This is the most painful and hardest tragedy that has ever happened to Macedonia, It was this tragedy…
Sara Tanaskoska is a young journalist from Struga. Until recently, she worked for a medium where the local themes were rare. Not because of lack of interest, but because the system simply provided no space for it. “I want to contribute more for my local community. So far, I have…
The young people from Krushevo, Kumanovo and Tetovo between the slow procedures and the new attempt for a digital dialogue with municipalities In many municipalities around North Macedonia, the road from an idea to a real change with the young people often ends even before it has begun. An attempt…
At the time when information is spread with enormous speed, and the boundaries between checked news and misinformation have become less and less visible, the topic of ethical journalism has become crucial for the society. Journalism, as voice of the public, has the responsibility that is nowadays bigger than ever,…
Young People from the Polog Region Asking for Conditions to Stay, rather than Reasons to Leave. “Every second friend of mine is already in Germany. I still doubt, I want to stay, but I don’t see any perspective”, says Arben, a 24-year old programmer from Tetovo, who faces the same…
Around the world, the existence of the so-called “shell” or empty companies has been known for quite some time; without a known owner and without employees they have transferred huge amounts of money for fictional services among themselves, in order to hide the trace of this money which most often…
Every year, Macedonia loses a young people potential of one small town. Only in Slovenia, in the last several years, there have been on average around 1,000 Macedonian students. While the best minds of our high schools conquer the classrooms in Vienna, Berlin, Ljubljana or Amsterdam, the country has been…
Discrimination against women is rarely recognized immediately. It is hidden behind “that is the way the system functions”, behind shame and fear of consequences. For many women, the first step is not an institutional report, but rather an inner struggle, i.e. if what they experience is injustice or just something…
“No government, no matter how strong it is, can carry the changes itself. And no civil society, no matter how developed it is, can fulfil its role without institutions that are open, transparent and ready for dialogue”, said the Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski at the opening of the National Forum – Fair of CSOs organized…
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