The methodology of social mobilization supports establishment of practices for inclusion of homeowners in the decision making process for improving the living conditions in multi-apartment buildings through: Increasing the awareness of potential benefits for homeowners when organizingthe multi-apartment housing management through associations of co-owners. Provision of support for creation of ACMBs as the appropriate tool for proper management of the multi-apartment building;

In the selected cities, Condominiums, that have not yet registered ACMBsand/orhave registered, but the associations are not yet operational will be targeted. In addition to the information they will receive, the more pro-active ones will be offered grants, as an incentive to organize some priority repair works on their building. The successful implementation of such micro-projects will build capacity and pave the way to sustainable joint management and maintenance of the building in the future.

• Developing and promoting an optimal technical package for housing renovation to ensure safe habitation and sufficient amount of savings to be used for repayment of investment. Assist the ACMBs management to implement the renovation on stages;

Implementing comprehensive technical solutions pose a big challenge to the ACMBs, because it requires even higher competence and more professional expertise. Use of standardised approaches and procedures can facilitate the process. Developed optimal technical package is the used tool for standardization. Trainings and support to use it will receive ACMBs with some previous experience. Elligible to apply can be also those ACMBs, that have alredy benefited from this project implementation of micro-projects of simple works.

• Developing and testing a financially viable mechanism that will enable homeowners to undertake retrofitting (a combination of grant, loans and targeted support to insolvents)

Support is provided to municipal initiatives aiming to further institutionalize community mobilization approach and increase the efficiency, transparency and accountability of local institutions; enhance information access and provision of basic services to the overall population, in particular to the poor and most vulnerable; promote people’s participation, particularly of the poor, women and youth in decision and policy making processes.

In particular, CBA III offers support to municipal projects related to:

1. access to ICT and connectivity: ICT investments in public information infrastructure, connectivity and equipment to foster wider use by people. Examples include telecenters or public internet access points; 
2. access to information: promotion of digitalization and dissemination of public information among the population, - interactive maps;
3. e-administration: municipal projects involving ICTs and mobile technologies to foster transparency and accountability within local public institutions, to improve their functioning and effectiveness, incl. publication of municipal budgets, information about public tenders on official municipal web-cites, etc.
4. e-service delivery: municipal projects involving ICTs and mobile technologies to foster the delivery of public services to all. Examples include introduction of the internet based billing system for housing services, provision of administrative services with involvement of internet and mobile technologies, etc.
5. e-participation: municipal projects fostering interaction between public institutions and citizens to promote better policies, services and public operations. This has three levels: information provision to citizens, consultation with citizens, and dialogue between government and citizens. Examples include interactive platforms for the public debates over strategic priorities of municipal development, feedback mechanisms to access citizens’ satisfaction by the quality of services provision