News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The paper analyses the philanthropic state of affairs in Albania. It provides the main trends and best practices from other countries, which could serve to a better understanding of the dynamics from the stakeholders’, part of the PO sector. The paper is structured based on the leading indicators composing the philanthropic freedom such as tax
Read more →Under the framework of the EU/CoEjoint programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022”, the CoE is launching a call for proposals to fund specific measures to favor inclusion and combat inequalities of vulnerable groups, and to raise awareness against hate speech, targeting them in the specific context of the spread of the
Read more →The Digital Defenders Partnership (DDP) through its Regional Partnership Funding supports initiatives promoting online freedom and digital protection for human rights defenders, which operate in a single country or region. A wide range of activities can be supported, including: supporting internet access in cases of shutdowns, censorship or infrastructural damage; training or accompaniment on digital
Read more →Institutional grants are intended to support the institutional development and organizational strengthening of individual CSOs. Civica Mobilitas expects institutional grantees to take leadership positions in civil society in the country, to be proactive, to take and lead initiatives for cooperation and unification of other CSOs. The general objective of the call is a robust civil
Read more →Next to its regular support areas, striving to advance innovative ideas addressing shared challenges by high-quality regional cooperation projects, the Visegrad Fund welcomes new collaborations in response to Corona crisis. The call for proposals is looking for creative ideas and solutions in need of project development, exchange of experience, and know-how or a need for
Read more →Peace Nexus launches a call for proposals striving to partner with organizations that contribute to social cohesion in the Western Balkans with organizations operating on the regional level. They are particularly interested in supporting actors that work to increase the quality and intensity of collaboration across ethnic and national lines, thus contributing to regional mobility,
Read more →The objective of the call is to support grassroots organizations and local CSOs in the Western Balkans in their efforts to build and increase community resilience to violent extremism through the creation of local partnerships and joint community-based P/CVE actions with other relevant actors: authorities, FBOs, cultural institutions, youth associations, media, and academia. The overall
Read more →European Civic Forum is looking for stories of activists, associations, movements and groups of citizens who are organizing solidarity and civic contestation, and making policy proposals to ensure rights are at the center of the response amid the COVID-19 crisis in the face of a restricted civic space. They are particularly interested in the transformative
Read more →The Black Sea CONNECT project is looking for passionate, engaged and creative Young Ambassadors that would like to have an essential role in advocating for the Blue Growth in the Black Sea and promote the goals of the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). The engagement of the Young Ambassadors will enhance the visibility and
Read more →BCSDN presents the latest overview, a first part of a series dedicated to the CSOs’ efforts in relation to the ongoing corona-crisis, as well as the influence this crisis has on their work. It aims to showcase the state of emergency situation and responses in the WBT countries, as well as in Slovenia, Romania and
Read more →BCSDN’s 12th Annual Council Meeting took place on 28 April, 2020 which considering the ongoing circumstances caused by global Covid 19 Pandemic, the meeting was held on the Zoom platform. Representatives of 12 member organizations joined together to overview the activities of the network in the past year. They discussed and approved Annual Narrative, and
Read more →Due to the positive response and high interest for the content of the first volume of our specialized newsletter dedicated on the CSOs’ responses during Corona crises among our supporters and the audience in the region, BCSDN continued with its collection of regional and international stories on how this situation affects the civil society sector,
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