RESIS Institute from Skopje and Local Community Development Foundation from Shtip, are implementing the project Encouraging civic engagement in local governance - LocalActiveMedia, whose main goal is to improve access to the public sphere for vulnerable groups of citizens from the Eastern and Southeastern regions, through developing communication skills and capabilities of civil society organizations that work with vulnerable groups and through the creation of online the media platform #LocalActive from which they will be informed and in which they will participate with their own contents of the vulnerable groups from both regions. The project is supported by the non-profit foundation National Endowment for Democracy (NED) .