Directeur : Igor Milosevic

The Association for Democratic Prosperity - Zid (here-in-after : ADP - Zid) is the nongovernmental organisation from Podgorica, Montenegro, founded in 1996.

ADP - Zid has the Assembly and the independent Board of Directors, which are the governing bodies of the organisation. The executive bodies are the Executive director and Programme board. The organisation has several full-time and part-time staff as well as number of volunteers taking part in the organisation’s activities according to need.

ADP - Zid started its work as a small student organisation interested in solving problems of students at the University of Montenegro. Since then, the organisation was developing gradually in the same time changing range of interest and area of work implementing numerous projects and different activities. Currently, ADP - Zid is one of the strongest nongovernmental organisations in Montenegro. However, the focus of the organisation’s work was and still is on youth and their position in a society.

Today, ADP - Zid works on various kinds of projects and activities in the frame of the following three programmes :

 Volunteers’ centre programme ;

 Community development programme ;

 Programme of information and culture.

ADP - Zid started the Volunteers’ centre programme (VoC) in 2001, aiming to promote and develop voluntarism in Montenegro. In order to achieve the goals of this programme ADP - Zid used various methods and activities such as : long - term volunteer’s exchange (European Voluntary Service / EVS) and in that way participating in the Youth Programme of the European Commission ; short - term volunteers’ exchange i.e. international work camps ; promotional and public awareness campaigns ; non-formal education ; researches in the field of voluntarism, etc. Through the VoC programme the organisation developed intensive regional and international cooperation with other NGOs and international organisations. Although this programme is the youngest in the ADP - Zid’s family, very soon it became the most dynamic programme of the organisation growing rapidly and showing significant potential.

The Community development programme is the field in which ADP - Zid works ever since the organisation was founded aiming to improve quality of life of citizens in Montenegro, especially youth, and develop local community. Most of the projects and activities of the organisation implemented so far were in the frame of this programme - various public awareness and promotional campaigns, advocacy initiatives, conferences, seminars, round tables, non-formal education (trainings and workshops), researches, etc. ADP - Zid realised most of those projects together with other non-governmental organisations, mainly on the regional level, which was one of the main characteristics of the organisation’s work both at present and in the past.

The Programme of culture and informing is an important part of organisation’s activities supporting other two programmes. Namely, the first activity of the organisation - publishing of the magazine ‘Zid’ - was in the frame of this programme. Besides, the organisation was working on numerous other projects and activities such as exhibitions, concerts, theatre shows, street performances, production of documentary movies, publishing of books, and so on. The emphasis of this programme is the community development through culture and media and support of young, art talents.

The most important projects/activities of the organisation in lat three years were :

 European Voluntary Service /EVS - four long-term volunteer’s exchanges- ;

 The short-term volunteer’s exchanges - five international work camps ;

 The advocacy initiatives - ‘Initiative for Jusovaca’, ‘Montenegro Advocacy Programme’ and ‘Save the river Tara’ ;

 The citizens’ participation projects : ‘The citizens’ academy’, ‘SEE Youth-Info’, CCI ‘Albert Einstein’ and ‘Youth active in practice’ ;

 The seminars, trainings and workshops - ‘EVS programme’, ‘PR seminar’, ‘The national/regional workshop on Youth programme, ‘Voluntarism and volunteer’s management’ and ‘Youth mobility for youth NGOs from SEE’ ;

 The conference - ‘Voluntarism and public institutions’ ;

 The promotion and public awareness campaigns - ‘The work camps’ promotion’, CCI ‘EU is not a member of your party’ and CCI ‘You are right’ ;

 The networking of the NGOs and cities - ‘The Citizens’ pact for SEE’ ;

 The publishing - the magazine ‘Zid’ and book - ‘Black on White’ ;

 The documentary movies - ‘In the way it goes’, ‘Jusovaca - feasibility study’, and ‘Voluntarism in Montenegro’ ;

 The culture - different concerts, exhibitions, street theatre and art performances.

ADP - Zid is the member of several national and international networks - ‘Youth Montenegro’, SEEYN and hCa.