As a team member of DASS-BiH at CREDI, Amela Kurta participated at CESSDA Training Workshop held on 14th May 2019 in Athens, Greece. The workshop was organised by SoDaNet – Social Data Network which is a service provider for data archiving in social sciences in Greece. The training covered Data Management Expert Guide (DMEG), Research…
Our researchers, Nermin Oruc and Amela Kurta participated at the meeting with representatives of DataBank of the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA KRTK). The meeting was organized by TARKI Institute on 26 February 2019. It was an opportunity to learn about the data archive of the MTA…
Through InGRID visiting grant, our researchers working on DASS-BiH, Nermin Oruc and Amela Kurta spent last week of February at TARKI-POLC Institute, Budapest, Hungary. The researchers used this visit to acquaint themselves with TARKI data archive, its history and current situation, experiences and challenges in the development of it. Through the meetings and training, our…
Our researcher Nermin Oruc, as a representative from Bosnia and Herzegovina, participated at the 12th Forum Meeting of ESS ERIC National Coordinators, held in Mannheim on 3-4 April 2019. The European Social Survey (ESS) ERIC is an academically driven cross-national survey that has been conducted across Europe since its establishment in 2001. Every two years,…
Our researchers Nermin Oruč and Amela Kurta participated at ESS ERIC workshop held on 28-29 March 2019 in Tivat, Montenegro. The workshop brought together national representatives from countries in South East Europe to discuss recent experiences from the survey fieldwork. Representatives from the region discussed the potential for Round 10 (2020/21) participation and the potential…
Our researcher Nermin Oruc participated at the workshop titled ‘Migration in the Western Balkans’. The workshop was organized by the EC DG NEAR and ICMPD, and was held on 24 – 25 January at the Metropol Hotel, Belgrade. The workshop enabled participants to share experiences in the aftermath of the ‘migration crisis’ in the EU…
Our researchers Nermin Oruc and Amela Kurta received InGRID2 visiting grant to TARKI-POLC, Budapest, Hungary. The purpose of the visit is capacity building of CREDI’s researches working on DASS-BiH (Data Archive for Social Sciences in Bosnia and Herzegovina). During their visit, researchers will learn about the day-to-day operations of Hungarian data archive located at TARKI-POLC,…
Our researchers participated at the conference entitled “Inequality and Social Protection in South East Europe”, held on October 22, 2018 at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Belgrade. The workshop was opened by Sasa Randjelovic, vice-dean for finance and international cooperation of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Belgrade, Jelena Zarkovic,…
On Friday, 14.12.2018. in Sarajevo a workshop of ” Western Balkans Migration Network” was held, gather researchers from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Western Balkans region. This event was organized with support of the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth of the Sarajevo Canton. In addition to the researchers, participants at the workshop were also…
Handbook for “For adult training providers, with guidelines and instruments for planning, implementing and evaluating adult training programs” is published. The Handbook was created for the “Prilika Plus” program, and was developed by the Center for Development Evaluation and Social Research. The Handbook was developed through active participation of a number of Adult Training Centres…
Our researcher Nermin Oruc participated at the workshop titled “The Future of the Western Balkans in Europe”. The workshop was held at the University of Warwick on 6-7 December 2018. Nermin presented recent labour market and social policy trends in the Western Balkans. The objective of this workshop was to bring together early career researchers,…
Our Centre, in a consortium led by Ecorys, is participating in the implementation of the Independent Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning of the Good Governance Fund (GGF) project. GGF is a highly responsive, adaptive, demand-led fund, largely focused on supporting governance and economic reform in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. We as consortium…
Our researcher Nermin Oruc presented a paper at the 4th The Role of State in Varieties of Capitalism (SVOC), held at the CEU, Budapest, 29-30 November 2018. His presentation was titled „Varieties of Transition in Yugoslav Successor States: Labour Market Institutions and Inequality” and is based on his work as a Visiting Atlantic Fellow at…
Representatives of CREDI attended workshops called “CSOs as equal partners in monitoring public finances” held in Tuzla, on 23 November 2018. The workshop was organized by the Center for Ecology and Energy and the Foundation Wings of hope within the project Balkan Monitoring Public Finances (BMPF) supported by the European Union. At the event, representatives…
Representatives of CREDI attended the conference “Opportunities and Challenges of Energy Transition” organized by the Center for Ecology and Energy, in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation and with the support of the EU. This conference is part of the projects “Energy Policy for Climate Protection” and “CSOs as equal partners in monitoring public finances”.…
CREDI was selected to perform analysis of baseline and endline data for impact evaluation of project „Community Based Approach to Support Youth in Targeted Communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina“ (PVE) implemented by IOM BiH. IOM implemented a pilot project in 2015 with the overall objective to prevent the possible development of radicalization and violent extremism…
CREDI is commissioned by the USAID to carry out an evaluation of the ENABLE project (Enhancing and Advancing Basic Learning and Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina). USAID is funding and Save the Children is implementing this project to develop key science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) educational competencies in 12 pilot schools BiH. Evaluation will…
Members of the Western Balkans Regional Initiative „The future of the Welfare State”, including CREDI’s representatives Nermin Oruc and Amela Kurta, gathered in Skopje, 23-25 September 2018, to discuss strategic options and future development of the Network. Participants discussed the external and internal environment, long-term goals of the network, projects and research areas that will…
Our researchers, Nermin Oruc and Amela Kurta participated and presented the current stage of development and ongoing research projects using BiHMOD at Vienna EUROMOD Workshop. The full name of the workshop was “New research directions of using EUROMOD: Austria and the Western Balkan countries in focus”. The workshop was held in Vienna on 17-18 September 2018.…
Director of CREDI, Nermin Oruč, participated in a workshop “Western Balkans and the Berlin Process”, held on June 13, 2018, at St Antony’s College, University Oxford, United Kingdom. The workshop was organized by SEESOX in co-operation with the Bank of Albania. The Berlin process is a diplomatic initiative linked to the future enlargement of the…
Coordinator of CREDI project for the development of data archive from social sciences in BiH, Amela Kurta, participated in a two-day event called „Strengthening and Expanding the European Infrastructure for Data Archives of Social Sciences” in Milan, Italy. The workshop was held in period 05-06.06.2018. This workshop was organized by the CESSDA network in collaboration…
Within The Western Balkans Regional Initiative “The Future of the Welfare State in the Western Balkans”, CREDI participated in the organization and implementation of the first regional conference of this network. The conference was held in Belgrade in the period from 6th to 8th June 2018. This three-day meeting included 4 panel discussions and 13…
WB-MIGNET, coordinated by CDESS, is organizing Third annual conference. Conference “A SEARCH FOR THAT SPECIAL PLACE UNDER THE SUN IN MODERN EUROPE: MIGRATION IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY” will be held in Zagreb on May 25-26, 2018. Call for papers for this conference is open. The Institute of Economics, Zagreb, a member of WB-MIGNET, in cooperation…
CREDI won a competitive bid to conduct research “Policy impact analysis of changes in labour legislation in Bosnia and Herzegovina – estimating effects on public revenues and job creation” requested by MarketMakers program. The research is related to the estimation of effects of proposed changes for part-time employment, temporary employment and student employment. MarketMakers is…
Centar za razvojne evaluacije i društvena istraživanja (CREDI) u saradnji sa JU “Služba za zapošljavanje Kantona Sarajevo” Sarajevo raspisuje konkurs za jedno (1) radno mjesto mlađeg istraživača, a po Programu sufinansiranja zapošljavanja “Zlatna značka”. Mlađi istraživač će pomoći u svakodnevnom radu u okviru istraživačkih projekata. Najvažniji zadatak mlađeg istraživača će biti korištenje statističkog softvera za…
Centar za razvojne evaluacije i društvena istraživanja (CREDI) u saradnji sa JU “Služba za zapošljavanje Kantona Sarajevo” Sarajevo raspisuje konkurs za tri (3) radna mjesta mlađeg istraživača, a po Programu sufinansiranja zapošljavanja “Zlatna značka”. Mlađi istraživač će pomoći u svakodnevnom radu u okviru istraživačkih projekata. Najvažniji zadatak mlađeg istraživača će biti korištenje statističkog softvera za…
Our researcher participated in region conference “Boosting the social dimension – the contribution of economic governance to decent work and life in the Western Balkans and Turkey” in Belgrade on January 31, 2018.The conference was organized by European Commission and supported joint governance efforts by the EU and enlargement countries on reforms for improving the…
Our research fellow Nermin Oruc is presenting at the seminar “Income Inequality and Welfare Systems in the Yugoslav Successor States” at London School of Economics together with: PhD Will Bartlett (LSEE Research on South East Europe), PhD Jelena Žarković Rakić (University of Belgrade) and PhD Gorana Krstić (University of Belgrade) on Tuesday 23rd January 2018.…
CDESS researchers prepared final evaluation report for Performance Evaluation of the 2010–2013 USAID DGP in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The purpose of the 2010–2013 USAID/BiH Development Grants Program (DGP) was to expand USAID’s NGO network of development partners and provide capacity-building assistance to new partners through supporting initiatives and mechanisms, enabling a wider range of partners…
Our Director, Nermin Oruc, as Coordinator of WB-MIGNET, participated at a high level panel-discussion organized by IOM and OSCE on 18 December 2017 in Vienna, on the occasion of the International Migrants Day. The title of the panel discussion was “Perception is not reality – Towards a new narrative of migration”. The event gathered experts…
Representatives from CDESS participated on December 6, 2017 at a regional workshop in Tirana devoted to the provision and financing of holistic services in the countries of the Western Balkans. The researchers of our Center presented the experiences and practices in the field of social protection in Bosnia and Herzegovina and actively participated in the…
A group of Western Balkan think-tank organisations and researchers working on the welfare state issues, including experts from CDESS, have initiated development of a Regional platform with the aim to engage the foremost researchers, political, business and other leaders of society to shape a regional social welfare state agenda, thus contributing to improving the social…
CDESS was selected to implement project “Development of Manuals with Guidelines and Tools for Planning, Implementation and Evaluation of Vocational Education and Training Program” under the PrilikaPlus Program implemented by the Republic Agency for the Development of Small and Medium Enterprises, and supported by the Swiss Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Find more about project…
Within the project of expert support to benchlearning among Western Balkan-6 Public Employment Services, several national workshops were organized: in Albania (30.10.2017.), Montenegro (31.10.2017.), Kosovo (01.11.2017.), Bosnia and Herzegovina (02.11.2017.), Serbia (02.11.2017.). Remaining two workshops will be organized soon: in Serbia (15.11.2017.) and Macedonia (22.11.2017.). In addition to workshops, retreat meetings were organized in order…
The results for 4th quarter 2017 of the ifo World Economic Survey are now available. The ifo World Economic Survey (WES) is designed to give an accurate picture of the economic situation and forecasts for important industrial, emerging and developing economies on a quarterly basis. Since 1981 the ifo Institute has conducted a quarterly survey in…
CDESS project entitled “Analysis of Competitiveness of the Three Value Chains in Canton Sarajevo” was financially supported by Ministry of Education, Science and Youth of Canton Sarajevo trough Call for Co-financing of Scientific Research/Arts Research and Development Projects of Special Interest for Canton Sarajevo in 2017. This project aims to identify three key value chains…
CDESS experts participated in the training with the PES representatives from 6 WB countries from the region, which was held in Belgrade on 14.-16. September 2017. The first ever assessors training on benchlearning for representatives of Public Employment Services (PES) from the Western Balkans was organized by the Regional Cooperation Council’ (RCC) Employment and Social…
Our researcher Nermin Oruc attended workshop titled “Access to anonymized administrative data for the purposes of research and policy analysis” held on 21.-22. September 2017. in Budapest, Hungary. The workshop brought together researchers and policy analysts to assess the state of play of access to administrative data in the Visegrad countries and to discuss what…
Our proposal “Psychological, behavioral and social changes attributable to life skills curriculum implementation in primary schools in B&H” was selected as one of winning proposals by USAID / BIH MEASURE on its call titled “Impact Evaluation of Social and Economic Programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina”. You can find more information about the project here.
CDESS is seeking a full-time Research Assistant for at least one year, beginning in the end of September 2017. The Research Assistant (RA) will assist with the daily operations of research projects in the fields of economics, including topics on labour market, migration, education, and social policy. The most important task of the Research Assistant…
Our researcher analyst and member of BiHMOD team, Amela Kurta, received a scholarship for the autumn school “Using EUROMOD in cross country microsimulation” organized by ISER, University of Essex, from 25 to 27 October 2017. The InGRID project is funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration under Grant…
CDESS, in a consortium with Budapest Institute, was contracted by RCC to provide expert support to benchlearning among Western Balkan 6 Public Employment Services. The purpose of this assignment is to contribute to enhanced cooperation and implementation of a “benchlearning” initiative among Public Employment Services of the Western Balkan economies, drawing on the experience of…
[:en]Center for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), on behalf of Western Balkan Migration Network, is organising Conference on “Migration, Diaspora and Development in Albania and in the Western Balkans”. The conference will be organised on 27-28 October 2017 in Tirana, Albania. Read more about call for papers for the conference on this link.[:ba]Centar za ekonomske…
CDESS has won a competitive bid for conducting performance evaluation of the 2010-2013 USAID/BiH Development Grants Program in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This project will be implemented under the USAID funded activity MEASURE-BiH which is implemented by IMPAQ International, LLC. You can find more information about the project here.
[:en]Organizational Board of the 2nd Regional Conference of Western Balkans Evaluators Network invites members of the Network and other interested evaluators active at both theoretical and practical level in evaluation of policies, programs and projects to send their scientific and practical papers by 15 July 2017. More information and application for can be found here.[:ba]PROGRAMSKI…
Our Research Fellows participated in 3rd Conference of LSEE Research Network on Social Cohesion in SEE on topic “Social Cohesion and Economic Governance” organized in Skopje on 6-7 April 2017. The conference gather together researchers from all social science disciplines including social policy, political economy, economics, political science, public administration, sociology, and socio-legal studies. More…
The latest results of the ifo World Economic Survey are now available. The ifo World Economic Survey (WES) is designed to give an accurate picture of the economic situation and forecasts for important industrial, emerging and developing economies on a quarterly basis. Since 1981 the ifo Institute has conducted a quarterly survey in numerous countries on…
Our team (Nermin Oruc, Amela Kurta and Amina Tabakovic) moderated a workshop of representatives of institutions in charge of education and statistics, which was held on Vlasic in period 15-16th May 2017 which. The workshop is one of the activities of our project entitled “Development of guidelines for education statistics in BiH“, funded by Prilika…
[:en]CDESS has become a member of the “Eastern European Social Policy Network” (EESPN) that was established in 2016 by the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research (affiliated to the United Nations) in Vienna. The European Centre is a UN-affiliated intergovernmental organization concerned with all aspects of social welfare policy and research.The Centre aims to improve social…
[:en]This project will, besides analysis of current state, give information about migration trends, projection of future migration, which are going to be used for measuring effects of migration on social cohesion, labour market, needs for improving transport infrastructure, health and social protection, education and housing. Migration can cause positive and negative effects on life in…
[:en]CDESS received a grant by Government of Sarajevo Canton for its research proposal “Analysis of migration in Sarajevo Canton: Trends and effects”. This project will, besides analysis of current state, give information about migration trends, projection of future migration, which are going to be used for measuring effects of migration on social cohesion, labour market,…
[:en]Our director Dr Nermin Oruc was selected into the first cohort of Atlantic Fellows at the International Inequalities Institute, LSE. In a team led by Dr Will Bartlett from the LSEE, and with Dr Gordana Krstic and Dr Jelena Zarkovic Rakic from the University of Belgrade, Dr Oruc will stay at the LSE for three…
[:en]The second two-day Annual Conference of the Western Balkans Migration Network titled „Migration in the Western Balkans: What do we know?“ was held at International Burch University on 19-20 May 2017. The conference brought together Western Balkans scholars and policy makers, in order to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and a discussion of migration. It…
[:en]Second Annual Conference of the Western Balkans Migration Network “Migration in the Western Balkans: What do we know?” Sarajevo, 19-20 May 2017 #WBMigNetConf The Western Balkans Migration Network (WB-MIGNET), in cooperation with the International Burch University (IBU), is organizing its 2nd Annual Conference in Sarajevo on 19-20 May 2017. The Conference is financially support…
CDESS invites applications for its Visiting Research Fellow (VRF) Programme. The Centre’s Visiting Research Fellowship programme enables mid-career researchers, activists, practitioners and scholars to spend a period of time conducting research at CDESS. The Centre aims to put in place a funded programme to enable those with a genuine and active commitment to social science research from…
CDESS invites applications for its Internship Programme. CDESS internship program provides students with a unique and expansive research experience that introduces all aspects of social science research and includes supported exploration of a research query from start to finish, data management training, and focused methodological education in quantitative research. Interns learn about the various activities…
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At the 90th session of the Council of Ministers of BiH held on 1st February 2017 was discussed and adopted the information on the drafting of the document ” Guidelines for the Development of Statistical Reporting in Education”. The document is the result of a project implemented by CREDI for the Ministry of Civil Affairs,…
2nd Annual Conference of the Western Balkans Migration Network “Migration in the Western Balkans: What do we know?” Sarajevo, 18-20 May 2017 The Western Balkans Migration Network, in cooperation with the International Burch University (IBU), is organizing 2nd Annual Conference in Sarajevo on 18-20 May 2017. The conference will be hosted…
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We are happy to announce that the Central European Initiative decided to provide financial support to CDESS for organization of the Second Annual Conference of WB-MIGNET through their Cooperation Fund 2016. After receiving the financial support for our First Annual Conference, we continue our successful cooperation with CEI. We highly appreciate their support in our…
We were selected by the RS Agency for development of small and medium-sized enterprizes to conduct an assessment of the current educational statistics and develop guidelines for its improvement. The main purpose of the project is to conduct a critical assessment of the current system of collection, exchange and dissemination of statistics in the field…
We were selected by the Government of the Sarajevo Canton to conduct ex-ante assessment of expected effects of the loan guarantee funds that will be provided to the enterprizes in the Canton in 2017. It will be implemented by SERDA Regional Development Agency, in cooperation with Union Bank. The purpose of the Loan Guarantee Fund…
Our researcher and team leader of BiHMOD team, Nermin Oruc, received a scholarship for the summer school “Migrant women on the labour market – identifying determinants and consequences of labour market inequalities considering the intersection between gender and ethnicity”organised by AIAS, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 24 to 28 October 2016. The InGRID project is…
Our Research Fellow and member of BiHMOD team, Nikolina Obradović, has been accepted and won scholarship at EUROMOD – HHoT Summer School hosted at the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerpen from 28 to 30 September 2016. You can find more information about the event here. The InGRID project is funded by the…
Our resaerchers Nina Brankovic and Nermin Oruc presented country report “Higher Education and Transition to the Labour Market in Bosnia and Herzegovina” at the premises of Delegation of EU to BiH on Wednesady, 29 June 2016. The country report is prepared within a regional project that covered six Western Balkans countries. The project was funded…
We currently participate in a project “Strengthening the Labour Market Research Network – Toward the Understanding of the Political Economy of Unemployment in the Western Balkan”, led by FREN Belgrade. This project aims at the creation of a Labour Market Research Network of Excellence and Internationalisation. The project intends to consolidate recent advances in applied…
Paper “Integrating Informal Institutions in Local Governance: Does it Matter” co-authored by our Research Fellow Snezana Misic Mihajlovic was published in the Working Paper Series of Institute of Development Studies, UK. In this paper authors add to the literature on ‘informally institutionalised’ relationships between states and citizens by examining the case of a particular type of…
This article analyses the differences between expected and actual wages of VET students and graduates. It uses a survey of VET students enrolled in schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and data about employed VET graduates from the Labour Force Survey. The model of determinants of wages, expected or actual, estimated separately on each dataset, reveals…
Our director Nermin Oruc participated in the first meeting of the RRPP Western Balkans Research Network on Decentralization. The project was implemented by EURAK Belgrade in partnership with Institute for Strategic Research and Prognoses from Podgorica. This project is implemented within Regional Research Promotion Programme supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The first working…
A new article authored by our researchers Nermin Oruc and Amina Tabakovic was published in Sudosteuropa. This paper aims to analyse whether and how this decrease is related to a change in motives for sending remittances. The change in motives will be analysed by exploring the interaction between social transfers and remittances using two household datasets, from 2007 (before…
Our director Nermin Oruc participated in first meeting of the RRPP Western Balkans Labour Market Research Network. The project was implemented by FREN in partnership with American College Skoplje and Institute for Strategic Research and Prognoses from Podgorica. This project is realized within Regional Research Promotion Programme supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The…
The First Annual Conference of the Western Balkans Migration Network (WB-MIGNET) in Tirana on 15-16 April 2016, marked the initiation of the Network activities. It was attended by a number of representatives from government institutions, international organisations, academia and students. Welcome speeches were delivered by Prof. Anastas Angjeli, member of the Albanian Academy of Sciences…
CDESS is currently developing BiHMOD, a microsimulation tax and social benefits model, which is based on EUROMOD. The project is jointly implemented by CDESS and the BiH Evaluation Society. The current team members of the BiHMOD National team are: – Nermin Oruc, CDESS – Nikolina Obradovic, CDESS – Fahrudin Memic, BiH Evaluation Society The initial financial…
