News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The Global Resilience Fund supports girls, young women, and gender non-conforming, trans and intersex activists. The Fund prioritizes applications from girls and young women with disabilities, girls and young women of color, LGBTQIA2S youth, afro-descendant, indigenous and immigrant girls, young women, and those living in urban slum areas, rural areas, refugee camps, occupied territories and
Read more →The programme aims to facilitate investigative, cross-border, and independent journalism to promote democracy in Europe by connecting donors and journalists without endangering the journalists’ independence. The awarded European Cross-Border Grant programme will support professional journalists, who have good ideas for cross-border investigations and research on European affairs, living in a CoE country. The project can
Read more →Transparency School is an annual state-of-the-art anti-corruption and accountability training for future leaders. The School exposes its participants to the latest developments in anti-corruption and accountability and offers real opportunities to try and implement their ideas in practice. The School is open to senior students, graduates, and young professionals under the age of 35. The
Read more →The Justice Accelerator is HiiL’s flagship innovation programme that funds, trains, and scales a global cohort of justice startups each year. Since 2011, they have supported over 110 startups worldwide. They are the only accelerator worldwide dedicated to justice and SDG16. The Innovation Justice Challenge is looking for innovative entrepreneurs that focus on: preventing or
Read more →The publication is the second in a series of reports which analyzes the effects of the Corona crisis management on institutions, political and civil rights, parties, civil society, as well as external factors. While the anti-Corona measures are being relaxed in most cases, the State of Emergency has not been lifted in all countries of
Read more →FRA’s Fundamental Rights Report 2020 reviews major developments in the field in 2019, identifying both achievements and areas of concern. It also presents FRA’s opinions on these developments, including a synopsis of the evidence supporting these opinions. The 2020 focus section of the annual report, “Ten years on: unlocking the Charter’s full potential”, outlines the
Read more →Marking the first year of the Reporting Democracy initiative, BIRN’s Democracy After Coronavirus report highlights the key “signals to watch” as the political and social consequences of the coronavirus crisis come screeching into view. Democracy After Coronavirus seeks to examine the political implications of the pandemic. The report presents 7 significant trends likely to have
Read more →A new policy brief, prepared by the regional WeBER initiative, explores the approaches of public administrations in the Western Balkans in regards to the COVID-19 crisis. The brief presents the quality of communication and implementation of the measures taken by the governments of the region in responding to the pandemic. It argues that streamlined and
Read more →The paper discusses the nexus between the EU pre-accession conditionality and membership obligations to guarantee respect for the rule of law as a founding value of the EU, common to the member states. It examines how the EU’s rule of law promotion in the accession process converges with and potentially inspires the progressive EU articulation
Read more →The Government of North Macedonia adopted a decision on allocation of funds for financial support of associations and foundations to support the fight with the COVID-19 crisis, in the total amount of 29.519.495 MKD. The sources will be provided to finance program activities of associations and foundations through grants from 600,000 up to 900,000 MKD.
Read more →A number of European organizations signed an anti- Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) policy paper in Europe, indicating that the EU must end gag lawsuits used to silence individuals and organizations that hold those in positions of power to account. The organizations suggest that SLAPPs are lawsuits brought forward by powerful actors such as
Read more →As part of a coordinated campaign, 9 European members of the Civil Liberties Union for Europe filed a freedom of information requests to national authorities to ensure that governments are abiding by EU data protection legislation. CSOs from Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden, expressed their opinion that they would like to
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