Ivica Cekovski Email & Phone Number

Advisory and capacity building support to the ongoing programmes of the network, supervisory role to the Coordinators' Board; Technical and logistical support for the regional and international trainings, communicating with the training faculty and preparing agendas, conducting workshops at Advanced Trainings of Trainers (http://bit.ly/ujGfsQ) Theatre Based Peer Education Trainings (http://bit.ly/vrv3Bw) and Project Development and Management Trainings, participants’ performance evaluation and recommendations for further field involvement, reporting;

Facilitate the developemet of the AWP and ensure the follow-up; Coordinate Y-PEER related activities at the International level and assist the UNFPA Regional Offices and fellow International Coordinators in the planning, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of listed activities; Coordinate the establishment of new Y-PEER networks and ongoing mentoring and support to exsistant country networks; Collaboration with national NGOs and governmental institutions in the hosting country working in the area of ASRH; Repressent Y-PEER at different events and meetings, initiate strategic partnerships; Ensure participation of Y-PEER members in every relevant regional and/or global meetings/activities (such as round tables for various strategies, provide comments for relevant documents i.e. strategy, policy papers); Facilitate selection process and recruitment of young people to participate at different Y-PEER related activities on national, regional and international levels; Setting the ground for “Y-PEER Foundation”; Createion of internal monitoring tool for International Coordinators and reporting system;

Skopje, Macedonia

Coordinate the planning, recourse mobilization, implementation and M&E of the Y-PEER activities in Macedonia; Ensure Y-PEER promotion on the national and regional/international level and insure greater representation of different NGOs and other institutions that work on youth SRHR promotion in the Y-PEER Network; Communicate with partners and recruitment into the network; Coordinate the process of translation and adaptation of the Standards in Peer Education in Macedonia; Facilitate the production of short educational movies; Promoting opportunities for the network members; Organizing and conducting trainings and events; Facilitate the internal and external communication channels and PR of the networks’ activities; Providing linkages from the grassroots to international level; Managing the national web site; Reporting;

Skopje, Macedonia

Coordinating a comprehensive harm reduction package of medical, legal and social assistance for people who use drugs and their families

Macedonia

Providing medical treatment, as part of a comprehensive harm reduction package, of injection-related and common health problems of people who use drugs; Education and counseling on effects of drug use, opportunities for treatment of drug addiction and prevention of blood and sexually transmitted infections; Referrals.

Sofia, Bulgaria

Help develop Y-PEER Center’s systems and procedures, and ensure they are followed and utilized; Help develop performance assessment system for the Y-PEER Fellows; Develop and maintain database of Y-PEER members, publications and documents, training workshops, events, meetings and other educational opportunities; Assist in creation of Y-PEER International online system for data collection/analysis, facilitate collection of information and data on national network activities, data on Y-PEER outreach and training follow-up and take part in the analysis of the collected data for monitoring and evaluation purposes; Contribute in developing the “Assessment of Y-PEER National Networks’ structures, capacities and needs”; Support in developing the PETRI Marketing strategy; Manage Y-PEER communications, including Y-PEER News Bulletin, Y-PEER Newsletter, web page and press releases as required; Through different modalities ensure representation of Y-PEER network at advocacy events/activities on SRH incl. HIV/AIDS conducted at national, regional or international level, e.g. ICPD WP review and follow-up, IAC and WYC 2010 preparation; Coordination of the logistics and organization of Y-PEER PETRI-Sofia events in collaboration with the NCPHA, UNFPA and Y-PEER ICs, Advise on the content, design, dissemination and use of Y-PEER materials; Timely reporting; Ensure smooth hand-over for the upcoming fellows

Skopje, Macedonia

Coordinate activities targeting youth (trainings, meetings, development of publications, web-site updates, etc.) on national level and assist the UNFPA CO in the planning, implementation and M&E of listed activities; Manage Y-PEER National list-serve, generate forum discussions, and update it with new members; Assist UNFPA CO in the selection process and recruitment of young people to participate at different activities; Advice UNFPA CO on the content, design, dissemination and use of materials; Develop institutional strengthening plan to enable expansion of the network throughout the territory of the whole country, strengthening of outreach through development of new communications/information means; Cordinate the „August – Month of Youth“ project

Skopje, Macedonia

Trainer of Trainers for sexual and reproductive health and rights (HIV/AIDS, STIs, Contraception, gender issues etc.), trainer at 6 Y-PEER National Trainings of Trainers and over 100 trainings for peer educators; leading SRHR workshops, coordinate communication with the educators and schools, monitoring and evaluation of educators’ performance, recruiting peer educators from different NGOs in Y-PEER; involvement in planning, implementing and monitoring programme activities; organizing meetings, trainings, preparing agendas, budget preparation and implementation; communication with stakeholders and PR of the activities; organizing promotional and educational activities within the Youth Friendly Health Centres; organizing workshops with vulnerable groups (Roma, MSM, children in institutions, soldiers); coordinating World Aids Day 2006 campaign in Macedonia; Reporting

Skopje, Macedonia

Coordinate the grant proposal writing and manage the planning, implementation and M&E of listed activities in the “Peer education in human rights and conflict management” project

Master Of Science (Msc), International Health

Master Of Science (Msc), Sexual And Reproductive Health

Medical Doctor, Md, General Medicine, 9.2/10.0

Nurse, General Medicine, 5.0/5.0