Our team

The Office for Local Economic Development is a professional team composed of people of different profiles – professionals in local administration, dedicated to their work. The employees of the Office launch initiatives, provide solutions and carry out daily activities, contained in the mission of the Office for Local Economic Development. A team dedicated to the development of the local and regional community and focused on:

• Development of strategic plans and programs as well as the local legal framework, in accordance with the strategic goals through private-public dialogue with the participatory participation of representatives of the business community;
• Preparation and implementation of the City of Niš Local Economic Development Program and development of the Local Employment Action Plan;
• Improvement of services to the business community, providing support and care for the application and improvement of standards of a favorable business environment;
• Better understanding of the needs of the business community for building a business environment through continuous analysis and constant monitoring of economic indicators, as well as management of local development policy instruments;
• Reducing risk and improving business stability;
• Employment, improvement of the labor market and human resources;
• Support to innovations and new ideas as our driving force of development;
• Improving conditions for entrepreneurship, business start-ups and small business operations;
• Development of infrastructure that will be in the function of local development, in accordance with the needs and potentials of the local economy;
• Improving the quality of life in the local community through more jobs, higher salaries and a better standard of living for citizens;
• Support and encouragement of investments, care for existing investments and their expansion, quality of investors;
• Preparation and management of development, infrastructure and investment projects;
• Collection of statistical data, formation of databases for the purpose of statistical observation of trends in almost all areas of economic and social life;
• Preparation and monitoring of the implementation of investments in the City, planned programs for arranging construction land and maintenance of communal infrastructure of public land in urban and rural areas;
• Development and monitoring of the implementation of programs related to capital investment in the field of culture, education, sports and health care;