Project News

The Project for Modernization of Public Transport in Belgrade (hereinafter referred to as "the Project"), which has been on-going since November 2020 firstly through a combination of online information collection, site visits and surveys, has finally held the first Joint Coordinating Committee (JCC) meeting for the Project. The event was held to confirm the progress of the activities and formulate the detailed plan for the Project in the City of Belgrade on June 2, 2021.

The JCC meeting was attended by representatives of the Secretariat for Public Transport (SfPT), other relevant secretariats, the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, the University of Belgrade, public transport operators, the tariff system contractor, the Embassy of Japan in Serbia, the JICA Headquarters and JICA Balkan Office, and the JICA Project Team. The attendees held lively discussions about the detailed plan prepared based on the results of activities conducted to this point in time, and agreed on the detailed plan for the Project as follows.

• The Project framework (Overall goal, Project purpose, Expected outputs)
• The activities and evaluation indicators to achieve project outputs and purpose.
• The JCC, Working Group members, and organizational set up for project implementation.
• Project design matrix (PDM), project operations (PO) and work plan.

Based on the above agreement, the Minutes of Meeting (MoM) were signed by the representatives of both sides of Serbia and Japan.

Based on this plan, the activities of the Project will now be promoted in earnest.

1st JCC

Signing on JCC