CURICULUM VITAE
Personal data
Education, skills, qualifications and training
Dates |
Qualifications/Courses
completed and Places of Education |
1968
|
Graduated at Faculty of Natural
Science, University of Belgrade
Department for Mathematics
|
| 1995 |
Communication Skills Course,
Carmichael House Voluntary Services, Dublin |
| 1996 |
New Managers Development
Course, Oxfam House, Oxford |
| 1997 |
UNHCR Training Seminar on
Community Services for vulnerable groups and work towards their
self reliance |
| 1999 |
NGOs Management Training
the Trainers Course, Charity Knows HowTraining course for volunteers
working on issues of domestic violence against women Training course on diversity,
Incest Trauma Centre in Belgrade |
Relevant work experience
- 1996 – 2006 NGO Center for Independent Living of Serbia –
Founding member and Coordinator for Development and International
Affairs, Project Manager for Personal Assistance Service Programme
in Serbia
- 1995 – 2001 NGO Oxfam UK, Belgrade Office –
Programme Coordinator and Regional Disability Advisor for all disability
related projects
- 1992 – 1995 Centre for Independent Living, Dublin, Ireland –
Project Manager , Training Co-coordinator in the INCARE, Personal
Assistance Service programme. Lecturer in Disability Studies in
Manoote College, Dublin
- 1966 – 1992 NGO Muscular Dystrophy Group of (Former)
Yugoslavia, President of the Federal Board,
- 1980 – 1086 NGO Muscular Dystrophy
Group of (Former) Yugoslavia , Editor of Magazine “Myopathy
and We” Editor of Magazine “Myopathy and We”
- 1978 – 1991 European Alliance of Muscular Dystrophy
Associations , EAMDA, Vice president for Social affairs
Major projects
- “Regional Disability Support” – Development
and provision of experts support to eight Oxfam Offices in the
region in implementation of disability support projects – 1997/1999
- “Disability Studies” – educational programme
for activists in disability movement - 2000
- “Personal Assistance Service as a Social Support for
disabled People” – Case study Research on PA service
as social services and comparative analysis with other types
of social support – 2001
- “ Serbia without Poverty” – Provision of consultative
process and recommendation for Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
– 2003
- “Monitoring Implementation of PRSP in Serbia” –
specific of poverty for disabled people research, Belgrade 2004
- “Personal Assistance Service in Serbia, SPAS” –
Action Research Programme on provision, training and researching
an innovative type of social support for disabled people in local
community – 2003/2006
- “ Self Help and Advocacy for Rights and Equal opportunities
for people with disabilities in South East Europe (Share-See) –
programme for building up capacities of disabled people’s organizations
in Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania and Bosnia – 2004/2006
- “Capacity building for Organizations of People with
Disabilities”, within the CARDS program,
implemented by European Disability Forum – EDF in Albania, Bosna
and Hercegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia
- “Training of trainers”, design and training
the group of persons with disabilities for trainers in Awareness
raising on disability for different target groups – author, organizer
and one of the facilitators
Key papers
- “Personal Assistance Service as a Social Support for
disabled People” – Case study Research, Borivoje Ljubinkovic
and Gordana Rajkov, Belgrade – 2001
- “ Review on legal situation and social services for
people with disabilities in Serbia and Bosnia” – Conference
Achievements and Perspectives of the Council of Europe –Initiating
legal changes in the issues of disability in Macedonia and the
Region – Skoplje, 2003
- “Disabled People in Situation of Crisis ” –
British Council Disability Conference - London, 2004
- “ Independent Living as
a human right: empowerment and mainstreaming” – Disabled
People’s International Regional Conference – Bucharest 2005
- “Experience of Independence ” – Participative
Action Research, Team of authors – Belgrade 2005
- “Poverty and Disability” - Round Table Discussion
Parliament of Serbia - Belgrade 2006
- Case study on Personal Assistance Service
programme as initiative for policy change – Disability
and Classification Conference, WHO-FIC – Tunisia 2006
Professional affiliation and membership
- Disability policy
- Social policy and services
- Capacity building and education
Memebership in specific bodies and organisations
- Member of Body for Disability Issues, Government of Republic
of Serbia
- Member of Managing Board and Vice-president of Disabled Peoples’
International – Europe Region
- Member of Executive Board of European Network of People with
Disabilities - ENIL
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