IRIS network

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo* and Albania. Each of the countries has a national IRIS network, which functions within the IRIS network, an umbrella organization, which currently gathers more than 200 member organizations that provide different types of social services to different socially vulnerable groups in mentioned countries. The primary role of the IRIS network is to strengthen the social service role of civil society organizations service providers across SEE and to ensure that these organizations are recognized as equal partners by the public sector. The IRIS network was founded in 2012 and from the beginning had significant support from the European Union and the program IPA Civil Society Facility of the European Commission. In the past 11 years, the IRIS network has profiled itself as the leading regional sector point of support, learning and association of non-profit social service providers in the community , primarily those organized in citizen associations that operate in conditions of uncertain funding, deficit of professional workforce and inadequate coverage of needs users through an institutionalized range of services. PARTNERS:
Initiative for Development and Cooperation (Serbia),
Arbeiter - Samariter - Bund Deutschland (Germany)
Center for Labour Rights (Albania),
LIR CD (BiH),
Center for Independent Life (Kosovo*),
Community Development Institute (North Macedonia), Alfa Center (Montenegro)