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News and updates from BCSDN and the region

CfA: International Youth Forum on Peace, Social Justice & SDGs 14-15 September, Chenai, India (Deadline: 24 August 2019)

Since 2017, The international Youth forum (IYF) has become a platform where young people can contribute to policy discussions at the International Platform through their collective ideas, solutions and innovations. The Forum allows representatives of youth-led and youth-focused organizations and networks, youth advocates and others to dialogue with International Policy makers, and to explore ways

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Civil Society Reflections on Progress in Achieving Development Effectiveness: Inclusion, Accountability and Transparency

The publication presents CPDE’s contribution to the 2018-19 Third Monitoring Exercise of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC). Its Key Messages and Recommendations aim to inform and augment dialogue in the GPEDC. CPDE is committed to dialogue on outstanding development effectiveness challenges, including ‘unfinished businesses for many key commitments and indicators agreed in

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International Civil Society Week 2019 Report Published

CIVICUS published the report for the International Civil Society Week (ICSW) 2019. The ICSW 2019, was organized in partnership between CIVICUS and Civic Initiatives from Serbia, as local hosts, and BCSDN. The event brought together over 700 international delegates from 93 countries in Belgrade to engage in dialogue and actions around working together to enable

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Balkan Barometer 2019: Public Opinion Survey

The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) presents the fifth instalment of the Balkan Barometer, an annual survey of regional perceptions and attitudes across a wide array of social, political and economic factors impacting life in South East Europe (SEE). The survey’s result, are modestly optimistic, showing growing support for EU membership with more than half of

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Civil Society Reflections on the Voluntary National Review Process and Sustainable Development Goals Implementation

The document presents the Key Findings and Recommendations of the reflection document on SDG national level implementation and the VNR process. The CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) conducted the study this May-June 2019 in countries whose governments presented their VNRs in the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF). The objective/s of the study was to reflect

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The Right to Receive Funding

The right of citizens to form associations and receive funding to pursue their missions is enshrined in international human rights law. Yet over 160 laws in nearly 70 countries have been passed to restrict this right since 2012 (ICNL). These laws severely constrain the ability of CSOs to implement programs that serve their communities and

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10 Steps to design your accountability feedback mechanism!

In the Resilient Roots initiative, 14 organisations from all over the world are running pilot projects to test new primary constituent accountability mechanisms. In most cases, these mechanisms focus on collecting and using feedback from the key constituents of each organisation. Feedback is an important element of improving accountability, and for this process to be

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The Role of Philanthropy in Regional Economic Development: The Donor View

Donor perspectives of the relationship between philanthropic and regional economic activity tend to fall into four broad areas: building the workforce, revitalizing the region as an attractive place to work and live, broadening philanthropic understandings to include strategic impact investing, and catalyzing dense networks of innovators and investors. These categories are identified as mapping on

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