​Central

The central government is responsible for:

• Youth and sport policy (Agency of Youth and Sport, which responds directly to the Prime Minister):
• Social development and social integration of the youth via qualitative formal and non-formal education;
• Economic prosperity of the youth via youth entrepreneurship;
• Improvement of quality of life;
• Active participation of the youth in the decision-making at both local and national level:
• National Youth Strategy;
• National Youth programmes;

• The Ministry of Labour and Social Policy takes part in the protection of the youth (especially the socially vulnerable youth), as well as the Ministry of Education and Science in the field of appropriate education of the youth, and
• The National Agency for Youth Educational Programs and Mobility in charge of the European Commission programs such as Youth In Action.

Local

Local authorities are responsible for:

• The development of mass sport and recreation activities for citizens, development of school sport system;
• The organisation of sports events, organisation of competition on local level for certain sports, support on traditional sport events, tournaments, etc.
• The building and maintenance of sport facilities and recreational zones; management of the sport facilities in the ownership of the Municipalities;
• Supporting local sport clubs and local sport associations;
• The adoption of Programmes for development, financing and organisation of sport on local level;
• Supporting youth information centres, and
• The adoption of the National Action Plan for implementation of the National Youth Strategy (Involvement of the Association of Local Communities in the process).

Responsible ministries/bodies

The Ministry of Labour and Social Policy

Sources:

YouthPolicy.org, Factsheets, Macedonia