EU beyond billboards – how IPA cooperation is changing people’s lives Brussels, 9 October 2019 EU beyond billboards – how IPA cooperation is changing people’s lives

Today I will talk about 01 02 03 04 People and their needs How to make a choice between the ideas? 02 How to find partners? 03 How to put the proposal together? 04

05 06 07 Something about how to win the game? How to play the game and play it well? 06 How to make people happier? 07

About us Directorate for Emergency Management of Montenegro Sector for Emergency Situations of Serbia

His highness… Citizen

People and their needs Make them speak through your project. 3 Resolve some of their issues. 5 Listen to them. 2 Push the project hard for them. 4 Talk with them, give them a mike. 1

Different ideas Not possible We can do it Possible, but not now Possible, but not us We can do it

Project team Local Fire Department Ministry Municipality We

Put the proposal together

150 shades of grey and only a few bright ones

Only some of them will receive: „I am pleased to inform you…“ opening sentence…

Timeline of Floods project We started to talk with the people Floods happened in Serbia Our proposal won 2010 2012 2014 2011 2013-14 We reacted We saw the needs that we could address Project implementation

When the nature is angry this is what happened…

Earthquake prevention If you were us, what would you do next? May May Floods happened Flood prevention June July-August Fire prevention Forest fires happened Next ? Earthquake prevention ?

We decided to be prepared. We, as grown kids, understood that this will happen again and again and again… So, what can we do? We decided to be prepared. 2019 2018 And another 2017 And another 2016 And another We implemented another project

Guess what we are going to do in 2020 and beyond?

Bottom line We cannot wait for disasters to stop. We need to prevent them as much as we can. We need to be prepared as much as we can.

His highness… Citizen

Thank You for staying still to the end of this presentation You are brave people too… You had plenty of choice in another rooms…I appreciate that a lot.. Thank You for staying still to the end of this presentation