Article 30 Participation in Cultural Life, Recreation, Leisure and Sport
332. The Sector of Modern Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, Media and Information Society, within the framework of the annual tender for co-financing of projects/programmes the quality of which contributes to the development and presentation of art and culture shall co-finance the projects intended to persons with disabilities and those wherein persons with disabilities are the participants. For example, through a tender 20 projects were co-financed in 2009 in the total amount of RSD 1,894,000.00. The funds in the total amount of RSD 2,620,000.00 were also awarded out of the tender.
333. Through a tender 9 projects were co-financed in 2010 in the total amount of RSD 2,400,000.00. 6 projects were financed out of the tender in the total amount of RSD 3,370,000.00. For projects in 2011, the amount of RSD 2,400,000.00 was allocated.
334. According to the National Strategy for Promotion of Sports in the Republic of Serbia for the period 2009-2013, the issue of sports of persons with disabilities is one of the strategic goals, and all the relevant activities were defined in the Action Plan adopted in 2009.
335. The Ministry of Youth and Sports (MYS) supported the implementation of the "Research of Achieved Results in the Field of Youth Policy for Vulnerable Youth Groups in 2008 and 2009", which was conducted by the Alternative Research Centre in September 2010, according to which 24 projects were implemented in 2009, which directly referred to vulnerable youth groups (24% of the total number of projects). Persons with disabilities made up 11% of direct beneficiaries of these projects. The projects related to rendering psycho-social assistance to the young belonging to vulnerable groups, their integration in the community, reduction of poverty risk among those groups as well as to promotion of the rights and assistance to the young and their families in the exercise of rights.
336. The associations marked the lack of precise records as the basic problem faced by the young people with disabilities, which would also include young persons with severe forms of disabilities placed with families, as well as the difficulties in the exercise of rights, insufficient number of inclusion programmes and adequate offer of contents, and total exclusion from social life and invisibility of a large number of young persons with disabilities for the public.
337. At the tender for inclusion of associations in the process of implementation of the Strategy for Improving the Position of Persons with Disabilities through implementation of programmes directed towards implementation of priority strategy goals and activities planned in the Action Plan, , which is carried out by the Ministry of Youth and Sports at the annual level, three projects of the associations were financed within the period from September 2009 to March 2011, in the total value of RSD 1,744,130.00.
338. In the course of 2009 the Ministry of Youth and Sports carried out eight infrastructure projects in total aimed at construction, recovery and adaptation of the buildings for sports, recreation and leisure activities of persons with disabilities, in the total value of RSD 20,249,996.00. In the course of 2010 three infrastructure projects were carried out in total aimed at construction, recovery and adaptation of the buildings for sports, recreation and leisure activities of persons with disabilities, in the total value of RSD 15,349,815.00. It has been planned that in the course of 2011 projects in the total estimated value of RSD 18,735,130.00 will be implemented.
339. The Ministry of Youth and Sports has been financing programmes of activities of sports organizations of persons with disabilities. In 2009 and 2010 the following sports organizations were financed: the Para Olympic Committee of Serbia, the Sports Association of Persons with Disabilities of Serbia, the Sports Association for Blindness and Low Vision of Serbia, the Special Olympic Games of Serbia, the Sports Association of Deaf of Serbia.
340. In addition to financing of regular programmes, sports camps, projects from the budgetary fund, the award of national acknowledgements, prizes and scholarships for persons with disabilities is also financed from the budget of the Ministry of Youth and Sports.