Project „Advocacy campaign for social housing and housing plots in the municipalities of Stara Zagora, Plovdiv, and Maritza”

Implemented in: Stara Zagora; Plovdiv, Matitza municipality

Program: Active Citizens Fund Bulgaria

Implementation period: 25.09.2019 – 15.06.2021

Project Promoter: Community Donation Fund Stara Zagora Foundation

Partners: Urban Development Institute and World Without Borders NGO

Project summary: 
The project goal was to improve civic participation in solving local problems and changing local policies. In this respect, we had planned to create 6 local civic initiatives in the municipalities of Stara Zagora, Plovdiv and Maritsa. The main challenge was to motivate the people to stand up for their right of a quality lifestyle, to believe in themselves, and to believe that they can influence local government decisions.

The most important result of the project is the empowerment of the target groups. To include them, we used the creation of Local Civic Initiatives to submit petitions to the municipalities of Stara Zagora, Plovdiv and Maritsa related to the improvement of housing policies. A total of 60 people took part in the local civic initiatives that took place in the three municipalities. The petitions asked for:

– Regulation of land adjacent to the Roma neighbourhoods for sale to the interested candidates for house construction;

– Construction of the necessary street and other infrastructure for the new land plots;

– Through the budget of the Municipality, as well as through funding from the national budget and by applying to the EU Reconstruction Fund to budget and provide funds for the repair of existing and construction of new municipal housing.

Project website: www.domzavseki.eu

Grant amount: 69 404 EUR

Contact: Daniela Dimitrova
email: office@fund-sz.org
phone: + 359 88 4843250
address: 6000 Stara Zagora, 14 Graf Ignatiev Str.