Along 25 years of operation, CDF has advocated for integration of Serbia into the EU, through strengthening of human resources and institutional capacities for democracy, rule of law and human rights.

CDF is highly competent in promoting EU values and policies on local level, with experience in development of human resources and institutional capacities.

It has a significant track record in advocating for public administration reform, particularly in the areas which are mostly important for citizens (good governance and EU standards implementation in local government, inspections reform, and recruitment and hiring practice in public sector).

                  Key Achievements 2017-2021

• Public Reading of the EC Report on Serbia – Setting the Tone for Debating the Report, in cooperation with the EWB, (2019-2021)
• Elected coordinator for the cross sectorial working group for the Berlin Process at the National Convention on the EU (NCEU) in 2021
• Contributions for the EC Report on Serbia (annually)
• Politeia Goes Regional organized in ReSPA for students from WB (2019-2021)
• Established Regional Youth Forum through RYCE Project (2019)
• Study visit to National Convention on the EU for BNLD (Balkan Network for Local Democracy) members as exchange tool for lessons learned in monitoring EU accession negotiations (2018)
• International Conference Call to Europe in the Western Balkans on EU Elections Impact on the WB in cooperation with FEPS – Brussels (2018)
• Launched advocacy initiative “European Social Fund for the WB” – amendment based on our initiative adopted by the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the EP and the NARS (2018)
• Public campaign Justice Above Politics – Pravda iznad Politike® (2018)
• National conference Towards a Democratically Change of the Constitution:Key stakeholders debating the change of the Constitution, with YUKOM, Belgrade Center for HR, Association of Judges, FOS and IPSOS (2017)
• Monitoring report and recommendations on Employment and Fight against Corruption in Public Administration (2012-2017)

                        Key Achievements 2017-2021

• Annual Report and recommendations on the negotiation chapter 2 (Free Movement of Workers) and 19 (Social Policy and Employment), with the National Convention on the EU https://eukonvent.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Knjiga-nacionalnog-konventa-2020_Web.pdf
• Analysis: National Employment Strategy (2021)
• Annual Reports on the Status of Labour Rights in Serbia (2018-2020)
• Launched Society Wide Platform for SDGs in 2020 followed by analyses, reports, extensive work in local communities
• Project cooperation with GiZ on the project Inclusion of Roma and Other Marginalized groups (since 2020)
• Analyses of the impact of Covid19 Crisis to employment in Serbia: “The Impact Of The Covid-19 Epidemic On The Position And Rights Of Workers In Serbia” published with the UN Team for Human Rights, 2020
• Monitoring Report on measures introduced during the state of emergency in the areas of social policies and employment, public health and consumer protection and education, published in 2020, http://www.centaronline.org/userfiles/files/publikacije/nkeu-analysis-covid-3-social-policy.pdf
• The Rule of Law in the Chapter 19 - Social Policy and Employment, report published with the National Convention on the EU (2020), http://www.centaronline.org/en/publication/1825/the-rule-of-law-in-the-chapter-19-social-policy-and-employment
• Analysis: Draft Action Plan for Chapter 19 – Employment and Social Policy (2019)
• On-field survey “Precarious work in Serbia – report from a research”, 2019;
• Coordination of a coalition of NGOs for the National Strategy of Social Protection (2019) for the modification of the Social Protection Law and of the draft Strategy
• Initiative for Intergenerational dialogue through workshops and focus groups (2019)
• Analysis: Treatment of Older workers in European and national documents, legal and other regulations and the media, 2019.
• Launched Platform against Cheap Work (2018) addressing the need for improved social dimension of the reforms
• Analysis: Employment policies in Serbia - Encouraging (non) Decent work, 2018;
• Statistics and Decent Work - A Critical Analysis of the Political Interpretation of Labour Statistics, 2017;
• Desk Research: Women in Labour Market 2017;
• Profiles of the Employed through Private Employment Agencies, in cooperation with the SIPRU Team for Social Inclusion and Reduction of Poverty (2017)
• Pilot Platform for Monitoring of the Implementation of the Economic Reform Program- ERP and the Employment and Social Reform Program-ESRP (2017)

We bring together policy makers, experts, businessmen, journalists and social activists. Together we engage in debating key issues and search for common approaches in finding solutions.

The CDF Platform Dialogue in the Center is a place for public dialogue, where scholars, activists, politicians and analysts exchange their views on key strategic issues and development challenges

We participate in all relevant EU accession-related fora and events, such as in the meeting of the Joint Consultative Committee EU-Serbia on civil society and annual briefings at the EU Delegation on the EC report on Serbia. 

           Key Achievements 2017-2021

• 136 Public Debates since 2007 with 2950 participants
• Through Synergy to Enlarged Impact in Youth Related Programs:established dialogue among CSOs networks in the Western Balkans (2018)

        Issues Addressed:

• Two Decades of Social Dialogue in Serbia
• Patronage Appointment and Discrimination
• Fair Energy Transition in Serbia and Potential Social and Economic Consequences
• (Un)Dignified Ageing and Old Age
• Social Rights and the Media
• Position of Foreign Workers in Serbia
• New law on Gender Equality
• Where are Labour Rights on the Agendas of Political Parties?
• Violence Against Women in the Public Space
• Poverty and the Environment
• Towards a Political Solution - Civic Protests as a Response to a Deficit of Justice and Weak Institutions
• Europe ahead of Elections – The New Session of the European Parliament
• Today’s Civil Society – NGO or GONGO, Watchdog or Strategic Partner, Think-Tank or Do-Tank