The municipality of Gornji Milanovac is located in the central part of The Republic of Serbia, in the large geographical region of Šumadija. It is consist of 62 rural and one urban settlement which are spread out on the large area of 836 km2. According to the last census, the municipality has 44.406 inhabitants, of which 24.216 live in the municipality center – the
town of Gornji Milanovac. The population of children and young people up to 18 years is about 7000. Among other competencies, the local Municipal administration is responsible for the establishment of institutions and organizations in the field of preschool and primary education, youth issues, culture, primary health care, physical culture, sports, children and social protection. Also it monitors and participates in the work of the Youth Council.
The Gornji Milanovac municipality has significant experience with youth activity projects to find the best forms to include its youth participation in decision-making, but also to provide a perspective for the young people to willingly choose to stay, work and live in Gornji Milanovac. These goals became more challenging in today’s time, regarding the pandemic
situation and lockdown that change lives and ways of communication. Struggling with the national legislative limitations regarding employment, that made hard to provide full-time employment of the people directly responsible for youth programs, we followed and financially supported programs of local NGO and youth organization, empowering it to sustain and develop, so they can become the main local partners in youth politics.