البوسنة والهرسك

Get employed by volunteering – volunteer to get employed (2010-ongoing): Project contributes to the decrease of unemployment of young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina by strengthening their competitiveness in the work market, and by advocating for adopting and improvement of the volunteer law in BiH.
Employment of youth in rural areas (2010-ongoing): Citizens’ Association “Nešto Više” will in the partnership with GOPA mbH – Youth Employment Program (YEP) ensure employment of 3 young people 18 to 30 years of age as well as temporary employment of minimally 20 other individuals of the same age group in the areas of three rural communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
ACCORD: Development of agricultural cooperatives (2010-ongoing): In partnership with Center for Development and Support Tuzla, NV will focus on internal development of seven agricultural cooperatives and their agricultural producers with an aim to increase competitiveness at local and regional market place. In the fruit/vegetable sector, two cooperatives will be certified and operational by HACCAP standards, while seven cooperatives and 200 already operational farmers will be certified and operational by GLOBALGAP standards.
Building capacities of adaption to drought in agribusiness (2010-ongoing): In partnership with Center for Development and Support Tuzla, project will serve at least 10000 farmers in north-east Bosnia and Herzegovina who will get an opportunity to implement adaptive solution in fighting with drought through measures of support that will be adopted by state, entity, cantonal and local institutions.

Our projects/activities are following our strategic objectives:
1. We have activities focused on empowerment of Roma youth – “Peer to peer education”, project financed by Porticus and SHL foundation; duration: 24 months; budget: 90.000 €. The project aims at both, educating youngster on certain subjects they face in their everyday life such as sexually transmitted diseases, violence, discrimination etc, and mobilizing them to become proactive members of the society. The project is based on the principle of creating a space for joint action of young Roma and Non-Roma, aiming at breaking existing prejudices and consequently promoting social inclusion of the Roma minority through peer education. The emphasis of the project is a peer education program that incorporates the “Join in circuit”  methodology. The peer education program consists of a capacity training session for 20 young Roma and Non-Roma, in which they gain knowledge and practical skills to become facilitators of the “Join in circuit” methodology.  After they have become experts and certified peer educators we will organize peer education workshops, in which youngsters will transfer their knowledge to their peers. Educational workshops will educate school students in primary and secondary schools, because peer violence is mostly present in these two school forms.
Also, we are promoting volunteerism and cooperate with Local voluntary service in Bijeljina and by supporting community actions of volunteers.
2. Activities focused on safety and wellbeing of children and youth – project “Safety for children in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, financed by GIZ; duration 7 months; budget: 1.500€. Main activities are focused on informal education of children beggars and their parents and to support of Working group for protection of child’s safety and promotion of the Protocol of cooperation. Working group concept is a multidisciplinary approach which
3. Otaharin’s new/different approach of supporting the integration of Roma through education is visible in project “Integration of Roma children in education system from all Roma communities in Bijeljina and Živinice”, financed by Roma Education Fund, duration: 24 months; budget: 39.635€, and project “Quality education – quality life”, financed by United Nations Development Programme in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNDP), duration: 9 months, budget: 21.320 €. Main activities of these projects are additional classes from Serbian language and Mathematics for Roma pupils in primary schools. On these classes pupils are provided with: special program adjusted for their level of knowledge, individual work, school material, food, Roma assistant. Teachers on additional classes are following closely improvement of knowledge and keep monthly records for every pupil (following their absence, grades, behaviour, knowledge...).  Also, the most important aspects of our work are field work and meetings with parents, where our Roma mediator and field workers are constantly present in the Roma communities and with conversation are trying to overcome numerous problems which cause irregular school attendance. We formed a Mobile Intervention Team which consists of representatives of schools, City administration, Social Welfare Centre and Day care centre. Role of this team is to visit families of pupils who are not coming to school regularly every month. This approach showed good results. REF project is also focused on preschool and secondary education, so we are enrolling children in kindergartens and support them to enrol to secondary school and faculties. In 2015 first Roma enrolled to faculty in Bijeljina and Otaharin supported her from primary school.
Our activities include programs for parents: workshops for positive parenthood and workshops of literacy.
4. Otaharin supported founding of association of Roma women in Bijeljina and these women have meetings on a weekly basis, with topics they identify as interesting and useful (literacy, meetings with representatives of Social Welfare Centre, Police, Health Centre – to talk about family violence, social protection, discrimination, sexually transmitted diseases, workshops about entrepreneurs...). We employed two single Roma women/mothers.
 

We were participants at many art festivals in Bosnia and Herzegovina and European countries (Italy, Austria, France, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Israel, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, Portugal, ...), where we won a large number of prestigious awards.
We were founders and organizers International Festival "Kastel-fest" in '98, '99 and 2000. in Banja Luka as well as International Festival of Theatre provocation IF 2003. Also we are Executive organizers of Festival of Republic of Srpska Youth Theatres.
Besides that, we were participants of international scientific and artistic projects: "Myth as destiny", "Balkan Network" as well as members of the association IAES, SEEYC. Since 2009 up to date, we are organizers of FAMA - BiH Amateur monodrama Festival under patronage of B&H Council of Ministers. Until now we had actors from 15 different B&H cities from both entities. Currently we implementing REALITY project financed by American Embassy in B&H where we have six partner theaters from all over B&H. As our main activity in 2012 we had 5 theater premiere and over 100 performances.

Draft theatre Tuzla mainly works at the preparations and performing the theatre shows, and education of youngsters with constant help of the local and international experts. Among the other things, we organized eight international theatre festivals in Tuzla titled “theatre without borders”.

Project; "From public participation to sustainable development"
Project "Youth eco camp Majevica"...