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Description
The aim of the project is to increase access to information about the municipality and county councilors, to increase the knowledge of the Youth Municipal Council’ members on the principles of local government, the third sector, and watchdog activities, as well as to implement an information campaign aimed at encouraging the replacement of heating devices and making the residents aware of health effects of breathing in polluted air. The project addresses the challenges that have been diagnosed in the Niepołomice Municipality: poor access to information on the activities of municipality and county councilors, lack of support for the Youth Municipal Council’s members, and poor air quality. As part of the project we will run local portals: Niepolomice.MamPrawoWiedziec.pl dedicated to the activities of the Municipal Council in Niepołomice, and the PowiatWielicki.MamPrawoWiedziec.pl dedicated to the activities of the County Council in Wieliczka. We will carry out a cycle of training courses for the Youth Municipal Council’s members, a study visit of the Youth Municipal Council’s members to Lublin and Lubartów, a competition for an anti-smog poster. We will implement an information campaign aimed at encouraging the phasing out of high emission boilers, warning against the harmfulness of smog. We will host two conferences: ‘Watchdog activities in the Niepołomice Municipality’ and ‘You have the right to know – local elections in Niepołomice’. The beneficiaries of the project are residents of the Niepołomice Municipality, in particular members of the Youth Municipality Council. The project is implemented in partnership with Stowarzyszenie 61.
Summary of project results
1. Poor access of the inhabitants of the Niepołomice commune to information on the activities of councilors
municipal and district.
2. Lack of substantive support from councilors from the Youth Commune Council.
3. Poor air quality in the commune.
In cooperation with a partner, we ran two information websites - Niepolomice.MamPrawoWiedziec.pl and PowiatWielicki.MamPrawoWiedziec. Data regarding the sessions of the Niepołomice City Council and the Wieliczka County Council were entered into both websites. We updated the websites on an ongoing basis based on information provided by the City and Commune Office in Niepołomice and the District Office in Wieliczka. In the absence of data, we submitted applications for access to public information. We prepared reports from the City Council and County Council sessions and posted them on websites and social media.
We conducted 1 competency training for the Youth City Council and organized a competition together with MRM entitled: "I want to breathe clean air."
In addition, in the fight against smog, we conducted a billboard campaign using the works awarded in the competition and put up anti-smog posters. We organized a conference at which we presented the activities carried out in the project.
Increased knowledge of district and commune residents about:
- activities of district councilors and city councilors,
- principles of operation of local government, competences of the municipal and district councils,
- functioning of the Commune Council, Municipal Office, commune tasks - 18 people,
- the need to replace heating devices.