Hosted by its member KCSF, BCSDN 6th Annual Council Meeting took place on 17th April in Prishtina, Kosovo. The annual gathering of all members discussed the achievements of the past year in which the network has launched its finalized work on its own monitoring mechanism (the Monitoring Matrix) and conducted an 8 country monitoring exercise on the conditions in which civil society develops and operates. BCSDN grew internally (new offices, more staff and triple annual budget) and developed new partnerships externally by becoming members of CIVICUS Citizens’ Alliance, European Year of the Citizen and European Civil Society House. The traditional gathering also adopted the Annual Plan of activities for 2014 and 2015 and discussed mid-term perspective for the new strategy 2015-2017. The key substantive debate evolved around presentation of the first findings of donor strategy research evolving analysis of 70 interviews with donors. For more information, read our Annual Report 2013 and Independent Audit Report 2013.
