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Youth support and institutional development in the Balkans

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Regional efforts to support youth and vulnerable populations in the Balkans continue through financial aid, educational programs, and social infrastructure development. Recent initiatives have focused on educational support, such as Slovakia’s ‘Online žiak’ project for disadvantaged students and increased child benefits for first-grade parents. In Croatia, municipalities like Velika Gorica, Rijeka, and Imotski have implemented various subsidies for textbooks, school supplies, and transport, while Sveta Nedelja has established funding for childcare services. Efforts to support young families and vulnerable groups have expanded into housing and rural development. In Serbia, the Bačka Palanka municipality, supported by the Ministry for Rural Care, awarded seven non-refundable grants totaling over 10 million dinars for the purchase of rural households. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the CEB II project has facilitated the transition of families into permanent homes, with 647 of 690 planned housing units already completed in the Tuzla Canton. Recent developments show an increased focus on legislative and systemic social policies. In Croatia, Minister of Labor, Pension System, Family and Social Policy Alen Ružić has met with associations to establish operational working groups. These groups aim to transform individual experiences regarding violence against women into “systemic solutions” by connecting state resources with civil society expertise to focus on prevention. ~~In the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, officials are discussing an initiative to form a working group to prepare a law~~ Furthering this focus on ~~parental rights and benefits. This effort seeks to unify existing regulations into~~ victim support, the organization Ženska soba has launched a ~~single legal framework to provide equal conditions for all parents, including~~ three-year program, ‘Improving the ~~self-employed~~ support system for parents whose children are victims of sexual abuse and ~~unemployed, while analyzing models such as~~ exploitation’. Supported by the ~~Croatian Law on Maternity~~ Ministry and ~~Parental Support. Additionally, activist Željka Umićević has criticized~~ developed with Hrabri telefon and the ~~effectiveness of~~ ‘Duga – Zagreb’ home, the ~~40 percent gender quota for political candidates in Bosnia and Herzegovina, arguing that true equality requires addressing power structures~~ program addresses the lack of clear legal and ~~providing mentorship.~~ procedural information for parents.

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