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People's Party Work for Betterment (Bosnian/Croatian:Narodna Stranka Radom za Boljitak) is a multi-ethnic party in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which enjoys support from all ethnic groups in Bosnia, but most of its members and voters are Croats. It was founded and run by wealthy Herzegovina businessman Mladen Ivanković-Lijanović, from Široki Brijeg. According to Article 2 of the party's statute it pormotes the following principles;

• To protect and preserve sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina within its internationally accepted borders;
• To shape a modern democratic and social state with multi-party Parliament and with division of authority on legislative, executive and judicial branch;
• To protect and achieve freedom and rights of every human being regardless to his/hers national, religious, political, racial, proprietary, or any other kind of differences;
• To achieve free market economy and private entrepreneurship, and social politics according to the Western European principles and standards;
• To develop economy as a base for faster renewal and growth of our country in all of its segments;
• To create new work-places or to decrease the number of unemployed persons;
• Return of refugees and displaced persons in their pre-war homes as fast as possible;
• To stop negative trend of young and expert people emigrating from our country;
• To create conditions for healthy life through nature preservation and human environment protection.

In the legislative election held on 1 October 2006 the party won;

• 1 out of 42 seats in the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 3 out of 98 seats in the House of Representatives of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 2 out of 35 seats in the assembly of the Tuzla Canton
• 2 out of 21 seats in the assembly of the Posavina Canton
• 2 out of the 23 seats in the assembly of West Herzegovina Canton
• 1 out of 35 seats in the assembly of the Zenica-Doboj Canton
• 1 out of 25 seats in the assembly of the Bosnian Podrinje Canton
• 1 out of 30 seats in the assembly of the Central Bosnia Canton
• 1 out of 10 seats in the assembly of Canton 10

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