On 6-7 of March 2013, the Municipal planning Team of Gracanica together with the UN-Habitat's Municipal Spatial Planning Support Programme (MuSPP) funded by the government of Sweden have organized a two day workshop for the identification of the actions/projects within the Municipal Development Plan (MDP). This workshop was also professionally supported by the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, respectively Department of Spatial Planning and the Institute of Spatial Planning. Participants in this event were also all relevant stakeholders such as: municipal officers, civil society and business community. In the same time this workshop will feed into the fourth stage of the MDP document "Graçanicë/Gracanica 2013-2028".  

At the beginning of the workshop, the results of the previous three phases of the development plan were presented to the participants, in order to get a better view on the existing situation. The participants were divided into groups according to subject areas/thematic groups, where they worked on the Action Plan on the development of Graçanicë/Gracanica 2013-2028. The Action Plan is being drafted based on the goals and objectives from which derived the high priority projects. In addition, the Action Plan indicated the financial implications and the time frame for the implementation of each action/project. Environment, economic development through agriculture and cultural heritage and infrastructure, still remain the most crucial domains to be worked on. Therefore, the projects identified in this field are considered as priority in the coming phase.

In the following period the municipal planning team will finalize the fourth phase "Action planning and strategies" and will draft the last phase, the "implementation provisions", which will complete the MDP document. The completion of this document will enable the municipality of Graçanica/Gracanica to control and guide the future developments in this Municipality.