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1.2. BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA City of Prijedor: Info centre for investors CASE 1: INFO CENTRE FOR INVESTORS IN THE CITY OF PRIJEDOR Basic Information Organisation/Partners: City of Prijedor Contact person: Bojan Jojić, Preda-pd* Agency, Prijedor (http://www.predaprijedor.com/ ) Start of the project:2006 End of the project / Implementation time frame: still ongoing Inhabitants: 97,000 Costs: 70,000 EUR Type of Financing: Donors and City of Prijedor Subject Area: Local economic development Brief Description: The project foresees that promoting the territory’s qualities will enable potential investors to obtain all relevant information necessary for deciding to invest in the territory of the city of Prijedor, quickly and from one place, the existing Info Centre for Investors. The overall aim of the project was to strengthening Prijedor’s economic development through the promotion of its territory by developing the info centre capacity with the objective of ensuring potential investors are integrated into Prijedor’s territory’s economic system. Thus the project contributed to creating conditions for the continual opening of new working sites and improving the general situation in the work market (in the long-term plan), to creating a competitive business environment and conditions for carrying out business activities, to promoting Prijedor territory’s info centre and economic potential and to improving the info centre’s work as a department within the preda-pd* agency. The implementing period of this project was one year, starting in 2006 with a budget of 70.000 EUR. With this amount the costs of one full-time employee – the coordinator of the Info centre for investors –, the equipment of the Info centre office, promotion material, participation at fair and business events as well as a study visit were covered. Initial Situation: The need for developing this project was prompted by the current economic situation in the city of Prijedor, which, among other things, is characterized by the population’s high unemployment, as well as the need for Prijedor’s potential to be much better promoted in terms of attracting investments to the area. The City of Prijedor’s agency for economic development, PREDA-PD had the leading role in initiating the project.
