• Promotion of the Programme in the region she/he is responsible for and in which she/he operates;
• Distribution of promotional materials through their e-mail, regular mail or fax directories;
• Meetings with NGOs and citizens in the resource centres and various sites in the region, gathering places of the small-size NGOs;
• Having received the project-proposals from FOSIM, each Advisor will contact the applicants offering them assistance, if necessary (they must not re-write the projects for them, they may only facilitate the process);
• If the project or the organisation does not meet the criteria, it shall be the duty of the Advisors to submit a report to the FOSIM Office thereof;
• Will contact with communities, groups, NGOs in order to help in developing some potentials, which are not yet ready initiatives to be financed by the open call;
• Will facilitate various community groups in order to reach to an initiative, as they can apply in the second round;
• Discover existing and new initiatives and individuals;
• Perform random visits to the projects;
• During the implementation of the projects, the Advisors shall perform monitoring and assistance functions.
  • Monitoring will be done based on indicators of the programme, to help FOSIM follow the progress of supported initiatives, including the appropriate spending of the funds.
  • Assistance to initiatives will include – facilitation of discussions, providing independent look, advise on how to improve the initiative, help learning and self-evaluation, help in identifying needed training or designing the network training’s based on.

The criteria for the allocation of responsibilities among the Advisors are the following:

• region/municipality;
• field of expertise;
• their capacities;
• knowing particular language(s);
• ethnic background;
• experience and knowledge of the particular region and NGOs acting there.