Tatijana Pavlović Krizanić, an expert from USAID - Urban Institute for stimuli in municipal economic development

Tatijana Pavlovic-Krizanic has a more than twenty years of working experience in international organizations, NGOs, for-profit and public sector covering local economic development, decentralization, regionalization and public sector reforms, public-private partnerships and utility reforms and also cross-cutting issues like anti-corruption, anti-discrimination, justice reforms, human and minority rights and right of asylum.

In last ten years she worked with various decentralization, regionalization and local economic development programs implemented mainly by USAID funded programs, but also supported by other international donors. She was author of the various model ordinances for local self governments like model municipal statute, ordinance on local ombudsman, ordinance on public hearings and ordinance on local communities. She provided legal and institutional advice to the Standing Conference of the Towns and Municipalities, numerous Serbian municipalities, LED offices, local ombudsman offices, public utility companies.

She cooperated with all prominent representatives of the Serbian NGO scene such as Center for Regionalism from Novi Sad, People’s Parliament from Leskovac, Belgrade Center for Human Rights, Humanitarian Law Center, Group 484, ProConcept, Forum for Interethnic Relations etc.

From 1986-1995 as a Senior Advisor with the Federal Ministry of Justice she participated in the legal drafting of the various laws related to contracts, torts, ownership rights and litigation procedure.

From 2005 on Tatjana Pavlovic Krizanic has been engaged as a deputy team leader with the Policy Reform Team of the USAID’s Municipal Economic Growth Activity in Belgrade. She graduated with a Bachelor of Law (LL.B.) in 1988 from Belgrade University Faculty of Law and holds an LL.M. from the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest.

Published papers:

· Rural Governance in Serbia-Charting a Sustainable Future (“Mind Your Own Business – Community Governance in Rural Municipalities”, ed. G. Peteri, Local Governance and Public Sector Initiative, Budapest, 2008) available in English on Internet http://lgi.osi.hu/publications/2008/394/Mind_Your_Own_Buisness_complete_no_cover.pdf

· Anti-corruption Measures on the Level of the Local Self – Governance (Security Review, CBS, 7/08)

· Decentralization of the public services in Serbia – one step forward, two steps in place (publication “Hand to hand – experiences in development of the local self – governance in the region), Open Society Fund, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2008. available in Serbian on the Internet: http://www.soros.org.ba/images_vijesti/najbolje_prakse_lok_uprave/Eda_Dobro_je_dobro_saradjivati-1.pdf

· Analysis of the Newly Enacted Legal Framework for Local Economic Development ("Laws and Practice", 5-6/2006, Standing Conference of the Towns and Municipalities in Serbia)

· European Charter on Local Self Government – Towards Development of the Democratic Local Self – Governance ("Laws and Practice", 2/2005, Standing Conference of the Towns and Municipalities in Serbia)

· Position of the Forced Migrants and the Evolving International Law (Handbook published by NGO Group 484, 2005)

· Article 14 of the ECHR and Serbian legislation and practice (Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in cooperation with the Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC, The Hague) and Interrights, London.

· Legal Framework Governing Civil Society Organizations in Serbia (project Analysis of the NGO environment in Serbia – Transition Challenges implemented by NGO Proconcept) available in English on Internet http://www.proconcept.org.yu/projekti/analiza_pravnog_okvira.pdf

· Handbook for the Delegates in the Municipal Assemblies, coauthor, part "Communication Between Delegates and Citizens and Media" (Standing Conference of the Towns and Municipalities in Serbia, 2004)

· Realization of the Minority Rights on the Level of the Self Governance (Published Papers From the Conference “Minority Rights and Decentralization”, Standing Conference of the Towns and Municipalities in Serbia, 2004)

· Code of Ethics for the Elected Public Officials and Fight Against Corruption (“Puls” Review, November-December 2004)

· Availability of Information on Activities of Local Governments in Serbia (Belgrade Center for Human Rights, 2003)

· Process of the Property Devolution in Serbia (PRAVNI ZIVOT Review, 10/2003)

· National Minorities and Regional Stability - Hungarian Status Law Analysis (Magyar Szo, February 16/17 2002)

· Minority Rights in SR Yugoslavia and Republic of Serbia (“Protection of the National Minorities”, Center for Antiwar Action, Belgrade, 2002)

· Privatization and Re-privatization in Hungary (PRAVNI ZIVOT Review, 10/96)

· Universality as a Myth – the Policy of the Human Rights (Human Rights Yugoslav Journal 1-2/1998)

· The State as the Bearer of Dominium or Imperium in the Field of Privatization (PRAVNI ZIVOT Review, 10/97)