On October 31, 2019 Modernizing Inspection Authorities project (MIA) together with the State Market Inspectorate (SMI) organized series of trainings on trade, inspection supervision and product safety. These trainings were heavily based on the resources from the Market inspectorate itself. They were held in the SMI’s internal training center and coached by Senior SMI’s inspectors Mrs. Evgenija Paneva, Cvetko Ristevski and Elena Maneva. In coordination with the MIA project, the trainings consisted of a morning theoretical session and an afternoon practical session, where the junior inspectors were practicing inspection supervision.

The first training, was under the topic “Law on trade” and it was attended by 13 junior inspectors. Next was specific training on “Law on product safety” which was held on November 15, 2019 in SMI premises. Trainers were senior inspectors Elena Manevska and Zoran Janculovski, while the participants were newly employed inspectors. After a theoretical session in the morning, all inspectors went to one of the biggest market chains in the country on inspection supervision. This model was established by SMI and mainly funded by their resources. The MIA project, provided small support in these trainings, while everything else needed for the trainings was provided by the the SMI (conference room, trainers, training presentation, etc).

A Generic training on “Unification of the Inspection Supervision”, for young State Market inspectors was also delivered on 22 of November 2019 in their own premises. The trainer was senior SMI inspector Cvetko Risteski.

This training was one of the series of general/specialized trainings that a group of 12 young inspectors are receiving during their on-boarding program. This training modality is a great example of the self-sustainability, and the State Market Inspectorate is planning on continuing this successful stories of independence in capacity building of their inspectors.