On Monday, 10 October 2016 in Zagreb, there was a meeting of members of the Working Group for drafting the National Strategy for Creating an Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development 2017.-2021. Members of the Working Group divided in subgroups defined according to the existing areas of the Strategy (institutional framework to support the development of civil society, civil society and participatory democracy, empowering the role of NGOs in socio-economic development, operation and development of civil society in international context), using innovative methods of discussion in order to define the key achievements and challenges in implementing the National Strategy for creating an Enabling environment for civil society development 2012.-2016. as well as the proposals of the key priorities of the new National Strategy. Further steps in the development of the National Strategy for Creating an Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development 2017.-2021. include evaluation of the current Strategy, which is in progress, the future work of the Working Group and the public consultation on the draft of the new Strategy.

Deputy Director of the government Office for cooperation with NGOs introduced members about the work proceedings

Some identified successes of the previous Strategy (2012.-2016.)