Municipality of Cair is a unit of local self-government within the City of Skopje. The total population of the municipality is 64,773 inhabitants in a territory of 3.2 km². According to the statistics from 2002, 60% of the inhabitants are Albanians, 24.13% Macedonians, 6.95% Turkish, 4.98% Roma, etc. According to Law on local self-government, Municipality of Cair is competent for the performance of the following activities: 1. Urban and rural planning – urban planning and issuing of technical documentation for construction and issuing of construction permits; regulation and maintenance of construction land; protection of the environment and nature – measures for protection and prevention of water, air and land pollution; local economic development – local economic development planning; determining of development and structural priorities; running of local economic policy; support of the development of small and medium size enterprises and entrepreneurship at local level and in that context, participation in the establishment and development of local network of institutions and agencies; communal activities – potable water supply; technological water supply; drainage and treatment of waste waters; public illumination; drainage and treatment of precipitation; maintenance of public hygiene; collection, transport and treatment of communal solid and technological waste; regulation and organization of public local transportation of passengers; supply with natural gas and heating energy; construction, maintenance, reconstruction and protection of local roads, streets and other infrastructure facilities; regulation of traffic regime; construction and maintenance of street traffic signalization; construction and maintenance of public parking spaces; removal of damaged vehicles from public spaces; chimney sweeping; construction and maintenance of markets; maintenance and use of parks, green spaces, park-forests and recreational spaces; regulation; culture – institutional and financial support to cultural institutions and projects; preservation of the folklore; customs; traditional handicrafts and similar cultural heritage; organization of cultural events; encouraging of various specific forms of artistic work; sport and recreation – development of general sport and recreational activities of the citizens; organization of sport events; maintenance and construction of sport facilities of public interest for the municipality, support to sport associations; social welfare and child protection kindergartens and homes for the elderly; exercising of social care for disabled persons, children without parents and parental care, children with educational and social problems, children with special needs, persons exposed to social risk, persons with drug and alcohol addiction problems; raising of citizens’ awareness, housing of persons put to social risk, sheltering and education of pre-school children; education – establishing, and financing, and administering of primary schools, in cooperation with the central government; healthcare – governance of the network of public health organizations and primary care buildings to include representation of local government in all the boards of all publicly owned healthcare organizations; health education; health improvement; preventive activities; protection of health of workers and protection at work; health oversight over the environment. According to the Law for decentralization,
Municipality of Cair is responsible to run and run primary schools in collaboration with central authorities. Following the decentralization reforms, Municipality of Cair together with internal organization has actively contributed to develop technical capacity of primary schools. Furthermore, municipality has implemented several projects to enhance interethnic cohesion into education system, strengthen civic culture and behaviors among youth at the school and community level and to tackle issues of diversity and equity at schools. Primary school teachers continuously are involved in different trainings and seminar for extracurricular activities, inter-ethnic integration, etc. In order to ensure participation into education system, municipality equipped several primary schools with multi-sensory rooms and assistive technology for pupils with special needs. Municipality of Cair has adopted Strategy for Interethnic Integration and Youth engagement that aims to support schools and pupils activities for interethnic integration and civic participation at local level.
