The goal of this project is to ensure the employment or self-employment of at least 35 inactive or unemployed women aged 15 to 64 from the rural areas of the area covered by the Banja Luka branch of the RS Employment Agency, which is 13 local self-government units.
GEA is implementing the project LENS in partnership with two civil society organizations: Center for Investigative Reporting (lead partner) and Life Quality Improvement Association “Futura”. The implementation commenced in February 2024 and will last until January 2027.
The project “RAG – Your Ticket to the World of Entrepreneurship” has been successfully implemented and 20 users from the municipalities of Bosanski Petrovac, Petrovac, and Ribnik have started their own businesses.
On November 30, 2023, the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina hosted a conference titled “Participation of citizens in decision-making at the local level in BiH: Towards a meaningful partnership”
The roundtable, organized by the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIN) in collaboration with partner organizations GEA and Futura, discussed the role of budget inspectors, whose numbers are insufficient in Bosnia and Herzegovina for adequate control of public spending.
This document represents a joint research of the Institute for Economic Research Ljubljana, Slovenia and the Centre for Research and Studies – GEA Banja Luka about labour migration trends between BiH and Slovenia. https://www.gea.ba/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/BiH-to-SLO-Labor-Migrations-final-1.pdf
The aim of the E-LOCAL project is to determine level of development of digital administrative services in 4 local self-governance units in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and opportunities for their development and extension.
Center for Research and Studies – GEA has started with implementation of new project. Strengthening the Capacity of Civil Society within the Budget Monitoring is EU funded project that will be implemented in partnership with CIN (Centar za istrazivacko novinarstvo) and Futura from Mostar.
GEA – Centre for Research and Studies took part in the international research about consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Western Balkans. This comprehensive research has been organized by the Aspen Institute Germany in partnership with several think tank organizations and experts from Germany and the Western Balkan region.
On Wednesday, November 27, the research on labor migrations between B&H and Austria was presented at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies – wiiw.