Welcome to the web page of the Organization for Civil Initiatives. 
We believe that viewing of our web pages will provide you with enough information about us, our work and our efforts, and maybe some of the content will be beneficial to your work.
For start, we will give you some general information about us:
Organization for Civil Initiatives – OCI was founded in 1992 in Osijek.
Until 1996.. we acted as an informal group of citizens. We registered non-profit organization 23.05.1996.g. After years of working in Slavonia and Baranja, in 2002.g. we also started to work in the Middle Dalmatia by opening regional office in Drniš.Today our organization works through our two offices in Osijek and Drniš, with support from domestic and foreign donors and with self-financing through social entrepreneurship, in concordance with our business plan.
Currently, Organization has 10 full-time employees, 7 part-time employees and 1 part time associate. Organization hires external experts and volunteers, depending on the project needs.
Organization has 2 offices (in Osijek and Drniš), ). Premises are owned by local self-governments which granted us their usage free of charge. Organization owns different equipment (office furniture, computers, photo-copiers, fax machines, LCD overhead projectors, laptops, scanners etc, as well as two Jeep Cherokee office vehicles) All equipment is owned by the organization.
Organization developed System of quality of work and implements it through different forms of technical assistance in the country and abroad (Legal documents that arrange inner structure, organization of work, relations among members and employees, procedures in decision-making, responsibilities and rights of members and employees, etc. Most of the documents are brought by the Assembly and Management board, and one part of documents id brought by the organization's management in concordance with the Statute, as well as laws, rules and regulations).
In program sense, Organization went through different phases of program work that were conditioned by the needs of the community in different periods of our work.
As a part of our regular Strategic planning, we defined directions of work for 2009 – 2013:
Organization's vision
Society of active citizens that actively participate in creating sustainable communities through usage of all of its potentials.
Organization's mission
Support for citizens and public sector in development of democratic institutions and development of social services and social entrepreneurship in communities.
Organization's strategic directions:
- Improvement of democratic institutions of the society and social services in communities
- Encouraging sustainable development of rural communities
- IMPROVEMENT OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS OF THE SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SERVICES IN COMMUNITIES
- Strengthening activism of citizens in creating and implementing public policies
- Increased active inclusion of marginalized groups of citizens and their associations in social development and decision-making (especially youth and women)
- Improvement of social services in communities
- ENCOURAGING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL COMMUNITIES
- Implementation of LEADER approach to the development of communities
- Development of non-profit entrepreneurship in communities
OGI team Osijek and Drniš
