Western Balkans Initiative on Tackling Informal Employment on Online Platforms

01Apr2024

Western Balkans Initiative on Tackling Informal Employment on Online Platforms

The SMARTLABOR project aims to facilitate the efficient adoption of technological advancements and drive progress in the agri-food sector across the Western Balkans. 

Through this series of workshops and panels, we aim to provide abundant information and open up discussions on all the important questions arising from the use of artificial intelligence in various spheres of social activity.

The project aims to revitalize EU integration in the Western Balkans by studying economic integration models in the EU Single Market for non-member countries.

This three-year project aims to advance the transposition of the EU Platform Work Directive into Serbian legislation through policy advocacy and research

Our policy-advocacy initiative seeks to change public policies and practices in ways that will have a positive impact on the Internet-mediated work which belongs to non-standard forms of employment and as such is not yet recognized in Serbia

CENTER leads the Fairwork efforts in Serbia by highlighting best and worst practices in the emerging platform economy and by giving every operational platform in Serbia a ‘fairness’ score.

The aim of the study was to provide a preliminary overview of the features of substandard Roma settlements within the City of Belgrade across the five priority dimensions – housing, employment, education, healthcare, and social protection

Relying on the EU analyzes and reports, the latest results of the Center's research and the transfer of knowledge through European and global initiatives to improve the socio-economic status of platform workers in which the Center is involved, we strive to indicate appropriate labor-legal solutions for regulating the status of p...

The  field research on improving water and sanitation in 57 substandard Roma settlements mapped in the GIZ study Mapping Substandard Roma Settlements in Belgrade to Enhance Linkages Between Housing and Social Inclusion Policies aims to support the City of Belgrade in implementing inclusive public policies.

Center  along with PPMI taks part in the ETF’s Skills for Enterprise Development activity in the Western Balkan countries focuses on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) active in the agriculture and food sector. 

The proposed action is the first ever initiative in Serbia urging for a systematic response to deprivation of economic and social rights of digital workers

In all countries in the region call centres play an increasingly important role in curbing unemployment of the young working force and slowing down the brain drain. However,  they also create some short and long term negative consequences for employees and the overall economy

Due to COVID19, many of us seem to have been abruptly immersed in the digital transformation of work in Serbia as our homes suddenly became (also) our offices.

The main goal of this project is to strengthen community responses and resilience for better protection of economic and social rights of vulnerable groups in emergency situations which include high level health risks such as  during Covid 19.

COVID-19 has created the perfect storm in employee surveillance and further jeopardized boundaries of right to individual privacy. The project aims to offer empirical assessment of the intrusiveness and reasonableness of emerging work surveillance technologies at work, and to contribute to the national policy making at the intersect...

How can the country accelerate innovation and build a knowledge-based economy for both traditional and emerging tech companies to the extent that it can create a sustainable national competitive advantage? What ten domains hold the most potential for such growth?

In accordance with its program orientation and commitment to contribute actively to promotion and advancement of human security of the citizens of Serbia, the Public Policy Research Centre has started monitoring of Serbia’s OSCE Chairmanship, primarily in the area of its commitment related to human dimension. 

The Public Policy Centre conducts a research on development and reforms in the security sector reforms towards LGBT community as a vulnerable group. The project aims at increasing public awareness of specific issues aimed at enhancing de...

Public Policy Research CENTRE has started a research project focusing on firearms misuse and its impact on gender-based violence (GBV). CENTRE's team will conduct interviews, focus groups and analysis of media reports on GBV and firearms possession. Based on collected data, the team will prepare a study and launch inte...

The aim of the project is to investigate a possibility of localization of campaigns for the SALW legalization and seizure of illegal firearms in Serbia. CENTER intends to explore viable possibilities of local communities to participate in legalization campaigns and to improve local security. The project relies on...

The main goal of the project is to enable protection of migrants/asylum seekers/persons granted asylum (MI/AS/PGA) against discrimination in Serbian communities in line with EU values and standards. 

Public Policy Research Centre (CENTER) cordially invites all interesting students regardless their level of studies to sumbit papers in the field of human security. The best papers will be rewarded. 

The PPRC is conducting a project “Digging into Digital Work in Serbia: Who are crowdworkers from Serbia and why they work on global digital platforms?“ aimed at providing an in-depth analysis of profiles of crowdworkers from Serbia and at identifying their needs. 

The goal of the project Increasing Effectiveness of Competent Police Officers as a Prerequisite for Prevention of Gender Based Violence in Serbia is to improve response of the competent police officers specialized for the processing of the GBV cases and patrol police officers who are assist...

CENTAR is a partner in the project whose goal is to point out the necessary digital competencies in the field of work and employment and thus enable decision-makers in Serbia to respond to new labor market demands. As a country that simultaneously faces three industrial revolutions, Serbia is motivated to ...

This project aims to provide analysis of the factors contributing to peer violence and human security concerns of youths in different local Serbian communities.

The CENTER is to conduct a pioneering research on scope of the platform economy in Serbia, from the labor and economic points of view. The focus is on the size of the digital labour force on digital platforms and via apps, in the sectors of transportation, and food/goods delivery.  

On 27th & 28th of February 2020, the Public Policy Center has  organised a regional edition of the conference in Novi Sad which opened discussions about the anticipated impacts of the platform economy on workers, businesses, and societies in South East and Eastern Europe.

"The Open Western Balkan Collaboratory on Online Platform Work" brings together bringing together Serbia, Albania, and Bosnia and Herzegovina to enhance scientific exchange and cooperation in the domain of online platform work.

The Public Policy Research Center is one of the partners of the Association Fenomena as a leading partner on the project, financed from EU funds through a broader program:  “Sustainable agriculture for sustainable Balkans: Strengthening advocacy capacities of CSOs and developing policies in the Western Balkans” is a...

CENTER prepared the analysis of the data on arms related incidents reported by the press in last two years, as well as on the citizens’ opinions about the arms possession, justifications for carrying them in public, and their tips about weapons spotted which were submitted to the Targeting Wea...

Public Policy Research Centre undertakes monitoring of the election campaign. Centre will assess the prominence of security-related issues in print and electronic media, the relevance of specific issues within the campaigns, and coherence of major coalitions compared against their party programmes and proclaimed reforms priorities.

Forum Roma of Serbia, (FRS) and Public Policy Research Centre (PPRC) Serbia are implementing the project „Documenting new experiences of “Otherness” and advocating for successful integration of Roma migrants through better education/employment policies...

Public Policy Research Center, in partnership with the Centre for Social Policy as a leading organization, is implementing a project Tools for Preventing Roma Dropout with the objective to decrease dropout and early school leaving of children, particularly among Roma children and returnees upon the Readmission Agr...

The goal of this project is to enhance the role of the Serbian parliament and civil society in overseeing Serbia’s compliance with the obligations made under the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), specifically the fact that exporters should take into account the risk of the use of conventional arms  to commit or facilitat...

GigmetarTM is the first iinstrument to describe the digital geography of Serbia and other countries in the region. It is the product of efforts made by the Public Policy Research Center (CENTAR) to shed light on the issue of platform work.

While in the future, companies are more likely to return to a classically organized work process, workers are hopping for the combination of work from home and in the office

The goal of the project is to contribute to the creation of fair and inclusive labor and legal regulations for the newly emerging workforce on digital platforms in Serbia.

Project “Youth’s Local Security Issues and Democratic Control of Security Sector” will provide knowledge building and direct communication of youth, municipal authorities and MPs, and therefore will contribute to the strengthened cooperation between the state and civil society in identifying major (human) security ...

A pilot project by Centre and CRNPS in three municipalities - Pirot, Kraljevo and Sombor - aims to initiate the dialogue between stakeholders in the process of appropriation from the budget line 481 for NGOs, analyze the situation on the ground, and based on findings, give suggestions to improve its transparency. ...

The Public Policy Research Center is selected by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to conduct a research and compile the 2015 National Human Development Report (NHDR) for Serbia, titled “Resilience of Municipalities”. In the aftermath of May 2014 floods, UNDP and the Government of Serbia agreed that the

CENTRE has received a grant for organizational development from the Open Society Foundations' Think Tank Fund. The Think Tank Fund supports independent policy centers that embrace inclusive policy change via analyses, advocacy and engagement with a wide range of stakeholders. In the forthcoming year, CENTRE will be i...

CENTER's first annual conference on the future of work took place in October 2018 and set the stage for a critical examination of the key drivers transforming the world of work and economy in Serbia within the context of the digital revolution. The second annual conference is on its way;...

How much do farmers know about rural developments programmes and subsidies? How they evaluate the process of application for these programmes and their experience with using measures of rural development programme? What motivates them to apply or not apply for the programme?   In the framework of the Regional Resea...

Public Policy Research Center, in partnership with the Educational Center Leskovac and Centre for Social Policy as a leading organization, has implemented the project "Supporting municipalities in the promotion of social inclusion through employment of vulnerable and marginalized groups" fro...

The proposed project aims to contribute to promoting the NAP 1325 in five local communities in Serbia, through gender-oriented approach in the context of gender-based violence – small arms and light weapons nexus. 

The project’s key aim is to increase representativeness of Roma in police, in order to strengthen confidence of this population in the Ministry of Interior, to improve Roma community security, as well as to increase level of employment of young Roma women and men. 

This project aims at increasing the level of formal employment through the promotion of entrepreneurship among female digital workers in Serbia.

When it comes to family characteristics, for the happiness of families with children is the most important parenting, family functioning and social cohesion, and to a lesser extent, family habits. On the other hand, family structure (marital status, number of children, whether they are on an extended or nucleus family and other char...

The Public Policy Centre is conducting a project concerning perceptions on firearms possession, especially among youth and women, since June 20. The aim is to contribute to reduction of human insecurity in Serbia for these vulnerable groups.  

The Public Policy Research Centre, in cooperation with the government Center for the Human Trafficking Victims Protection, conducted the research on the human trafficking victims in Sremska Mitrovica, Pirot, and Smederevo, where their numbers have been increasing in last two year.

Public Policy Research Centre was commissioned by the Center for Research and Development of the Society IDEAS to conduct an impact analysis of two newly introduced services to support minors among migrants and refugees - temporary guardians and cultural...

Publication ‘Roma women and men and security sector reform in the Republic of Serbia’ brings results of CENTRE's research on security problems of the Roma population. It is first research of this kind which analyzed perc...

Non-discrimination of the vulnerable groups (women, ethnic and religious minorities, LGBT population) and the attitude towards them are practically absent in the teaching process in the Military Academy and Military High School show the results of the most recent research project of the Public Policy Research Centre. The research re...

After succesfull research about formal and informal networks in rural areas, a research team from the Association of Agricultural Economists, Republic of Macedonia (AAEM) and a CENTER team, led by Natalia Bogdanov were engaged in the creation of a network of researchers on the topic of rural development...

The project was focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) people’s perceptions about their safety and the relationship with security structures - police and the Army. Research was conducted via focus groups’ discussions with LGBT community in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Nis, in cooperation with the NGOs dealing...

Support to the women police officers network in South East Europe (WPON) in preparation of recommendations addressing the recruitment, promotion, retention and career building of women police officers in the region. The Center, via its representative, contribu...

The aim of the project is to contribute to the strengthened cooperation between the state and civil society in identifying major (human) security issues affecting municipal level and strengthening horizontal and vertical cooperation within endeavours to enhance security governance and democratic contr...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Regional Human Development Report on Social Inclusion for theEuropeand CIS countries examined social exclusion in the region around four different types of exclusions that people in the region can experience: exclusion from ec...

This evaluation – done jointly by the Foundation for the Advancement of Economics (FREN) and CENTER - was an attempt to conduct systematic assessment of results of the activities undertaken by Social Innovation Fund (SIF). The objecti...

This project resulted in recommendations for efficient and sustainable work of the local mechanisms for the social inclusion of Roma in the Republic of Serbia. The CENTAR research team analyzed the work of the existing mechanisms - health mediators, pedagogical assistants, Roma coordinators, advisors at the National Employment Servi...