This presentation by Sanja Bojanic of UNDP in Montenegro reviews how UNDP is promoting participation through innovation & collaboration to address the governance challenge

1. Sanja Bojanic, MBAi
Democratic Governance & Economy and Environment
Programme Analyst
UNDP Montenegro
sanja.bojanic@undp.org
@bojanics

2. CONTENT
Governance Challenge
Innovation &
Collaboration 4
Participation

3. GOVERNANCE CHALLENGE
CONTEXT
UNDP 5 “good governance” principles :
 Legitimacy and Voice (participation)
 Accountability (transparency)
 Performance (responsiveness, effectiveness, and
efficiency)
 Fairness (equity and rule of law)
 Direction (Strategic vision)

4. Reframing issues:
 Institutional capacity – participation
Citizen reporters, inspectors, experts, service designers
 Corruption - Accountability & transparency
Larger # of CSOs, broader citizen base
“Be Responsible”; investigative journalism
 Performance – participatory monitoring
“Daj Predlog”; Kallxo.com
INNOVATION

5. COLLABORATION
 CSOs
 NESTA
 Edgeryders
 Institute for the future
 Futurescaper
 FINKI Macedonia
 UN Global Pulse

6. TOOLS
NESTA – Social Innovation Toolkit
http://www.nesta.org.uk/develop-your-skills/development-
impact-and-you-toolkit
KOLBA Lab Armenia – Social Innovation Lab
http://www.kolbalabs.am/
Social Innovation Camps – building technical solutions to social
challenges
Open Ideas for Montenegro – Crowdsourcing problem solutions

7. INITIATIVES
 Armenia
 Ukraine – Mob App
 Serbia – Youth Sleuth

8. Serbia – Youth Sleuth
3 NGOs
Data driven journalism
Investigative journalism training
Social medial and digital publishing
Training with ACA

9. INITIATIVES
 FYR Macedonia
 Montenegro
 UNDP Kosovo

10. Montenegro and fYR Macedonia
MNE
“Open Ideas for Montenegro”
“Be Responsible” – mobile app used in fight against grey
economy
Collected money goes for social good projects
MK
www.dajpredlog.mk
Working with NGOs
Developing participatory mechanism at local level to
prevent corruption

11. THANK YOU!
sanja.bojanic@undp.org
@bojanics