Organisation
PREPARE Organisation
PREPARE Aisbl is an international non-profit organisation with a seat in Brussels. PREPARE partnership of national rural organisations and a network of practitioners has a well-defined system of governance based on democratic principles. Key decisions are made by the PREPARE General Assembly, which consists of one representative from each of the PREPARE partners, i.e.:
- Albanian Rural Development Network - represented by Sotiraq Hroni
- Croatian Rural Development Network - represented by Nikša Božić
- European Council for The Village and Small Town (ECOVAST) - represented by Valerie Carter
- Forum Synergies - represented by Hannes Lorenzen
- Hungarian Rural Parliament - represented by Csaba Boha
- Kodukant, the Estonian Village Movement - represented by Anneli Kana
- Latvian Rural Forum - represented by Anita Selicka
- Lithuanian Rural Communities Union - represented by Virginia Setkiene
- National Network of LAGs in the Czech Republic - represented by Zuzana Guthova
- Network for Rural Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina - represented by Duško Cvjetinović
- Network for Rural Development of Serbia - represented by Dragan Roganovic
- Polish Rural Forum - represented by Urszula Budzich
- Rural Development Network of the Republic of Macedonia - represented by Petar Georgievski
- Rural Development Network of Montenegro - represented by Ratko Batakovic
- Slovakian Rural Parliament - represented by Monika Slaninova
- Slovenian Rural Development Network - represented by Goran Soster
- Swedish Village Action Movement - represented by Staffan Nilsson
- Village Action Association of Finland (SYTY) - represented by Kim Smedslund
- Connecting Natural Values & People Foundation (CNVP) - represented by Ross Bull
- Network of Organizations for Rural Development of Kosovo (NORDK)
The day-to-day management of the PREPARE activities is done by the PREPARE Executive Board Members, which consists of the following representatives:
- Aris Adlers, President
- Goran Šoster, Vice-President
- Nikša Božić, Executive Board Member
- Urszula Budzich, Executive Board Member
- Leotrim Germizaj, Executive Board Member
- Kim Smedslund, Secretary General
- Anita Selicka, Treasurer.