The partnership event, organized on May 6th, 2010, by MDC-Ti.Net in partnership with Technical Assistance for Civil Society Organization (TACSO), gathered representatives from 100 NGO's from Macedonia for exchange experiences in cooperation, communication and partnerships between civil society organizations, local and central government and business community. Representatives of local government units, ministries, business community and media took active participation at this event.

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The overall goal of the event was identifying gaps and challenges in communication between these sectors and give strengthen dialogue between representatives of the three pillars in society: local/ central government, business sector and civil society.

Participants were introduced to two braider themes: Partnerships between CSO's and local/ central governments and Fundraising opportunities: domestic donors and corporate responsibility. The introduction speeches were delivered by: Zoran Milov, Department for cooperation with NGO's at the General Secretariat by the Government of Macedonia; Sasho Klekovski, Executive Director, Macedonian Center for International Cooperation; Norik Selimi, Coordinator of the Local Economic Development at the Municipality of Cair; Martin Kocmanovski, Business Development Manager, TINEX- Markets representative.