News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Based on real experiences of Lifeline consortium partners and other CSOs, the guide aims to provide a “menu of options” of various tactics to be used in a difficult or restrictive context. The guide offers inspiring case studies, concrete examples and tools of how civil society can be useful even under significant duress. The guide
Read more →In its submission for the consultation on the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) White Paper, ECNL urged the EC to prioritize public interest, the protection of individual rights and freedoms, non-discrimination, and equal access to resources and participation, as core concerns of any future strategy and regulative framework on AI. While the EC highlights the potential
Read more →The report is part of an ongoing series that examines employment and wages in private, nonprofit establishments in the USA. The report seeks to explain two aspects of the current nonprofit employment scene. The first aspect is the pre-COVID-19 nonprofit workforce realities. Second is the scale of impacts on nonprofit employment of both the enormous
Read more →In the last edition of the Global Standard for CSOs Accountability Newsletter, BCSDN’s member Partners Albania for Change and Development, through the National Resource Centre for Civil Society, has promoted the importance of implementing the Rendir App. The use of this online tool as a self-regulatory mechanism will help increase the transparency and accountability of
Read more →National and international NGOs call on providers of development assistance to maintain support for transparency, accountability, and open government initiatives in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing economic crisis. They support multilateral and bilateral agencies, foundations, and other funders to review their priorities in response to the pandemic. It is essential to
Read more →The Aid Transparency Index is based on a collection of data published by the respective providers in the International Aid Transparency Initiative. It hosts open live data published voluntarily by more than 1,150 organizations, providing information on organizations’ development and humanitarian activities. The report demonstrates improvement in donors’ overall transparency compared to 2018. The latest
Read more →As the COVID-19 crisis is likely to negatively affect civil society across Europe, primarily through the growing restrictions on civil liberties and the possible subsequent economic hardship, the urgency for better and more comprehensive support has increased. While the newly presented recovery instrument and the revised proposal for the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) are
Read more →The paper aims to support Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members and other providers of development cooperation to integrate the implications of a range of plausible futures of civic space into positive policy action. It overviews the variables (i.e. current trends, drivers of change, and uncertainties) that may determine the trajectory of civic space in the
Read more →The call aims to co-fund local school-based projects to promote a democratic education environment with the local community’s involvement. The purpose of the Action is inter alia is to foster quality education by supporting schools, communities, and relevant educational institutions to fight discrimination in education. The action also strives to accommodate and value vulnerable children
Read more →“European Youth Together” projects aim to create networks promoting regional partnerships, to be run in close cooperation with young people from across Europe (Erasmus+ programme countries). The networks would organize exchanges, promote trainings and allow young people themselves to set up joint projects, all of which could be done through both physical and online activities.
Read more →Engagement for Joint Action (EJA Kosovo) is a KCSF program that supports civil society initiatives through grants and capacity building. It aims to contribute towards two main objectives: civil society uses and claims spaces for participation in shaping public affairs. CSOs have strengthened ties to their constituents, and improved accountability and transparency towards the wider
Read more →Under the overall aim of bringing the Union closer to citizens, the general objectives of the Programme are: to contribute to citizens’ understanding of the Union, its history and diversity, to foster European citizenship and to improve conditions for civic and democratic participation at Union level. The Programme is implemented through two strands and horizontal
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