Euprogres - Competitiveness study

EU PROGRES, EU- and SDC-funded Programme, implemented by UNOPS

Developing web based tool for supporting of data analysis needed for the Competitiveness Study. The tool includes a portal to host all necessary statistics related to community profile creation of indicators in a user friendly manner, and automatic calculation of the results, and graphical representation on a map of 34 target municipalities.

The purpose of the study was to point out to the municipalities and cities the level of their competitiveness, and to make them able to compare their resources, potentials and capacities with other local self governments.

The study was based on data regarding municipalities and cities collected from various accessible sources, and on information collected on the field. With two rounds of visits to all cities and municipalities, 294 focus groups were held, with total of 1539 participants, and each local governments have filled 20 questionnaires from various areas, and provided certain documents as evidence. Also, 11 meetings and one focus group was held with representatives of central level institutions and donors. We would like to thank to all interlocutors who provided data to us, without them, this database would not be comprehensive enough.