Databases operated by governmental institutions
www.crm.com.mk
According to the changes of the Law on Citizen Associations and Foundations from 2007 CSOs are registered directly at the Central Registration Office.
Central Registration Office holds database of all legal entities in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, including CSOs, with a unified set of data for each entity. With an annual subscription for the services of the Central Registration Office information on the name of the legal entity, address and legal attorney are available free of charge. Additional data, including financial statements for the previous year, are obtained on request and are charged for each entity separately.
Databases operated by CSO service organisations
www.graganskisvet.org.mk
The most comprehensive database of CSOs is prepared by Macedonian Center for International Cooperation-MCIC and contains data about 1,589 CSOs. For each organization, the following data are entered: contact details, registration details, objectives, target groups, main activities, data on human resources, annual budget, territorial coverage, membership in national and international networks etc. The database can be searched by the name of CSO, target group and by type of organization activities.
CSO Projects
MCIC also prepares a database of CSO projects, which contain data about 521 CSOs’ projects. The database contains info about each project’s name, objective, short description, target group, location, activities, involved organizations, expenditures, sources of funding. The database can be searched by target group and by type of project activities.
Data for both databases are gathered in the field by local interviewers after providing initial contacts from the Central Registration Office. CSOs database was regularly published in the form of Directory. Both databases have not been updated since 2003.
www.mango.org.mk
Other CSOs and CSOs’ projects database is prepared by Metamorphosis and contains data about 500 CSOs covering similar data as the MCIC’s databases.
In addition Metamorphosis prepared a database of foundations. These databases also have not been updated since 2003.