Gvozd is a very small town, in a postwar area, with little opportunity for youth. Serb returnees and Croatian refugees from Bosnia now live here. The town has 1 restaurant, 3 café's, 1 department store and 3 smaller shops, 1 school, 2 football and basketball courts, one playground/park, and a small lake and river and the Suncokret center.
Gvozd Municipality is an extremely socially deprived municipality. It was destroyed during the war (in physical, cultural and social terms) and is currently subject to the process of return of the population. Gvozd Municipality is separated and isolated from the wider community. The lack of adequate interaction among individuals or various ethnic, religious, cultural and other groups is clearly recognized.  
The current Gvozd Municipality (consisting of 19 settlements) ethnic structure is the following: 70 percent of the population are Serbs, 30 percent are Croats (the total number of persons living on the municipal territory is 4,000). Approximately 90 percent of Serbs are returnees, while the majority of Croats are Bosnian refugees settling in Gvozd. Before the war, Gvozd Municipality population was approximately 8,000, the large majority of which were Serbs.   
As a result of very high unemployment young people lack any perspective and are very pessimistic about their future. Therefore they do not see the opportunity to affect any local community changes. There are very limited places for youth to gather and little recreational and education opportunities for the local inhabitants
The Gvozd Municipality infrastructure is very poor. More than 700 houses have been damaged or completely destroyed during the war, the water supply through regional waterworks has been difficult due to the old network and outdated pumps and technology, while the power supply system has been damaged (and completely destroyed in the northern part of the municipality). As a result, some 250 inhabitants live without electricity and water supply even today. The local roads are bad and the traffic connections are very weak.
In addition to physical devastations, the community has been disintegrated, resulting in the separation of and tensions among young people. A need for the promotion of concepts of multiculturalism and tolerance has therefore been recognized.
Distance, bad traffic connections with larger towns and dislocation make opportunities of both youth and adults living in Gvozd Municipality for living a decent life and inclusion into society even more difficult. Selection opportunities with regards to education and employment, as well as availability of information, organized events and services adjusted to the needs of youth are weak and insufficient.
Just like in other parts of Croatia, the main determinants of the social status of youth and the level of integration are education and work, family support and the place of residence. Young people leaving education (during the primary, secondary or tertiary education), waiting for the first job upon completing their education, and young individuals getting insecure, underpaid and risky jobs are found in a particularly hard situation. In addition to what was just said, there are many young persons living in poor or dysfunctional families on the territory of Gvozd Municipality who need additional help to be provided by the society.
Due to the lack of places where young people could hang out and interact with each other, and inadequate public transportation connections, the most of them do not go out and stay in houses in small villages, while only a small portion of them (those who can afford it) go out to the bars in the neighboring towns (Topusko, Vojnić).
Gvozd and its surroundings represent a passive rural area with high share of old-age population. The majority of older-age population is illiterate. However, there are as many as 52 illiterate persons of the age between 20 and 40.
The business sector is hardly present in Gvozd Municipality. There are only 6 shops and not even a single registered crafts production facility. While the production plants and trade companies used to employ some 1,000 persons before the war, the only employers today are 2 Italian factories: Euroamb (that assemble ambulances) and Morganti (creation of furniture), the Forest Management Authority, which employs 80 persons, three private saw-mills and the public sector, which both employ approximately the same number of persons as the Forest Management Authority.