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Accountability is much more than procedures – registration, compliance and financial management. It is also about justice and equality; centering communities at the heart of organizations’ work; values-based decision-making; responsible leadership and much more. It is about everything from paying for child care and ensuring shared parental leave; to supporting learning opportunities for our partners;
Read more →CSOs are expected to be accountable for the use of resources received on behalf of others. Accountability may be upwards to donors or governments, downwards to beneficiaries, sideways to allies, or internal. Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) information are routinely used to provide information for upwards accountability. M&E may also be used to support other forms
Read more →The objective of the paper is to provide, via concrete country examples, an overview of different ways in which national legislation of various states around the globe restricts international funding for CSOs. It focuses only on CSOs, not on other types of associations such as political parties or trade unions. The paper will likewise assess
Read more →The study examines institutional donor engagements in 6 countries: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia and consists of two core documents, a regional overview and an Addendum that provides information on country-level specificities. It also explores recent and future donor engagements in the region, views of donors and key stakeholders on
Read more →The Human Rights Fund (HRF) is a tool of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands used to support activities around the world with the common goal of achieving tangible results in the field of human rights. The policy priorities of the Netherlands are set in the human rights strategy of the Ministry of
Read more →The aim of the NFRP Matra programme is: ‘Using the Netherlands’ expertise in the areas of democracy, the rule of law and human rights to contribute to social transformation leading to a sustainable and stable relationship between government and citizens, and to invest in the bilateral relationship with the recipient countries and in the partners
Read more →The global objective of the call for proposals is to strengthen participatory democracy in Albania to prepare for EU accession. The specific objective(s) of the call for proposals is to enhance the quality of journalism in Albania through independent production, with a view to strengthening media pluralism and the freedom of expression in the context
Read more →Human rights defending organizations are invited to design and submit project proposals in: awareness-raising on human rights; advocacy and policy analysis on human rights; creation of community service models on human rights. This call for proposal gives priority to the following areas: Tirana; Shkodra; Dibra; Lezha; Rrëshen; Kukës; Durrës; Kurbin; Kamëz; Përrenjas; Gramsh; Pukë; Fier;
Read more →The main objectives of the support for European cooperation projects are: to strengthen the capacity of the European cultural and creative sectors to operate transnationally and internationally; to promote the transnational circulation of cultural and creative works, and cultural and creative players, in particular artists; to contribute to audience development and improve access to cultural
Read more →The thematic forum under the title Youth in the region: seeking strategic responses to meet the challenges of demography and labour market trends will gather more than 50 participants from youth organizations in the Western Balkans that would focus on youth networking and knowledge sharing in the field of structured dialogue and reforms in rule
Read more →The conference is Organized in co-operation with Faculty of Law, University of Split. The Main Conference Theme “Governance and citizens’ rights in the era of Europeanization, globalization and digitalization”. The working group is focused on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and their participation in governance in the states and regions of Central and Eastern Europe. The broad
Read more →This program is a two-way exchange involving 30 professionals from five selected European countries and 15 mentors from the United States who will effect positive change in their communities. U.S. mentors will share their professional expertise with fellows of this program in the United States and travel for a two-week reciprocal visit to assist their
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