For more than ten years, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has supported citizen participation and local governance projects in BiH. This project was developed as a form of ‘capitalisation’1: a chance to look back and learn from the progress made so far and to generate lessons for the future.
The project brought together diverse groups of citizens, civil society organisations and local government. It opened spaces for participants to reflect, learn and discuss issues including citizenship, participation and democracy. It built their skills in technology, communication and visual methods. It encouraged them to be creative and playful, and to put their own experiences, imaginations and emotions into their stories.
The stories produced are useful for future SDC programming, as well as advocacy, activism and the encouragement of a public dialogue on issues not commonly discussed in BiH.
opendemocracy.net | 2014 | Global,
When people connect to political issues through personal stories, they see them in a different way. They don’t just see democracy in the abstract, they see ‘my democracy.’ The transformative potential of storytelling is written into the fabric of our lives.
MDP Inicijative Doboj | 2014 | Western Balkans,
Documentary on SDC projects about citizen participation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 17:30min
