“Analysis of the State of Local Government and Self-Government in BiH” was created as a result of the first phase of the project “Creating a Strategy for the Development of Local Government in BiH by Key Domestic Actors”, implemented by EDA Banja Luka, with the support of the Open Society Fund BiH (Local Government Program) and SDC / Intercooperation (Municipal Development Project).

This document was prepared by an expert team, consisting of experts and practitioners. The document was adopted at the meeting of the Partnership Group for the Development of Local Government in BiH, held in Banja Luka, on 17 May 2005.

The analysis starts from the past, outlining the relevant historical and social background, and reaches the “future that has already begun”, registering the first signs of electronic governance. Each part of the analysis seeks to compare the current state of local government and self-government in BiH (on a normative and practical level) with European standards, set out in the European Charter of Local Self-Government and elaborated in a series of generally accepted documents and methodologies. This outlines the approximate dimensions of the gap between the current state and the state it should be if we want to become part of the European community in the area of ​​local government and self-government.

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Analiza stanja lokalne uprave i samouprave u BiH, 2005.

“Analiza stanja lokalne uprave i samouprave u BiH” nastala je kao rezultat prve faze projekta “Kreiranje strategije razvoja lokalne uprave u BiH od strane ključnih domaćih aktera”, koji implementira EDA Banjaluka, uz podršku Fonda otvoreno društvo BiH (Program lokalne uprave) i SDC / Intercooperation (Projekat razvoja opština).

Ovaj dokument je pripremio ekspertski tim, sačinjen od eksperata i praktičara. Dokument je usvojen na sastanku Partnerske grupe za razvoj lokalne uprave u BiH, održanom u Banjoj Luci, 17.05.2005.

Analiza kreće iz prošlosti, ocrtavajući relevantni istorijski i socijalni background, i stiže do “budućnosti koja je već počela”, registrujući prve znakove elektronske uprave. Svaki dio analize nastoji usporediti sadašnje stanje lokalne uprave i samouprave u BiH (na normativnom i na praktičnom planu) sa evropskim standardima, izloženim u Evropskoj povelji o lokalnoj samoupravi i razrađenim u nizu opšteprihvaćenih dokumenata i metodologija. Time se ocrtavaju približne dimenzije jaza između stanja kakvo ono sada jeste i stanja kakvo treba da bude, ako želimo da i u području lokalne uprave i samouprave postanemo dio evropske zajednice.