Impact's mission is to become the center of excellence for trainings on developing cooperation and partnerships between public, private and non-profit sectors and the central point for providing information, exchanging expertise and promoting public discussions on key achievements and challenges in the field of cross-sector cooperation in the Republic of Croatia and the region of South east Europe.
Objectives:
- to enable representatives of public and private sectors and CSOs to acquire and improve their knowledge and skills on partnership options and benefits, to be able to contribute to strengthening of local democratic structures, creating an environment more favourable to partnership development, enabling local organizations to participate in creating local development policies and monitoring their implementation and promoting the strengthening of cooperation between local civil society organizations, local governments, private sector and the media, to meet and respond to the needs of local communities;
- cross-sector partnership development should contribute to fight against poverty, introduction of the culture of dialogue, society democratization and civil society development, as well as implementing efficient partnership models developed in other European regions;
- to enable cross-border cooperation on exchange of knowledge, skills and experience as well as regional cooperation on partnerships focused on strengthening local civil society organizations, local institutions and business sector in South east European countries, with the objective to create legal and institutional frameworks that will enable cross-sector cooperation and partnerships based on the best world and European partnership development practices.
