Regional Conference The Public Mediator in Banite Municipality – Institutionalization and Initial Experience
On 25 March, 2005 the experience of the Banite municipality in establishing the institution of the local public mediator (ombudsman) was presented at a Regional Conference titled The Public Mediator in Banite Municipality – Institutionalization and Initial Experience. The conference was organized by the Bulgarian Youth League Stefan Stambolov - Smolyan under the project Local Ombudsman Institution in Rhodopa Municipalities – Building Sustainable Model of Monitoring, Civic Control and Partnership within Local Self-Government, implemented within the framework of the Civil Society Against Corruption Program of Coalition 2000. Representatives of the local self-governmnet and local administration from the municiaplities in Smolyan district, NGOs and citizens from the region participated in the conference.