News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Our Member – Partners Albania for Change and Development has just published the latest Monitoring Matrix Report on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development. The report finds out that CSOs still face burdensome reporting procedures and formats; there is poor implementation of the consultation processes on draft laws and policies, especially at the central level
Read more →On June 9th, 2019, on the Thematic Forum of CIVICA mobilitas, more than 80 representatives of the CSOs’ representatives discussed the enabling environment for the development of Macedonian civil society in 2018. The Forum emphasized that the freedom of association, assembly, and expression were legally guaranteed and mainly respected and provided in practice, the Financial
Read more →The conditions for civil society in Serbia remain constrained, states the new CIVICUS Monitor update on Serbia. In an indication of this worsening situation for civil society, in the enlargement report, the EC recently highlighted Serbia’s failure to improve civic space. As previously covered on the CIVICUS Monitor, there has been a perceived increase in
Read more →Center for the Development of Non-Governmental Organizations (CRNVO) presented the findings of the Report “Civil Society in Creating and Implementing Public Policies”. This Report contains the results of the research conducted by CRNVO in order to assess the involvement of NGOs and the general public in the policy-making process in 2018. The report states that
Read more →The Policy Brief presents the key issues that civil society and youth face in the Western Balkans. The Policy Brief also gives recommendations to Western Balkans, EU and its member states, on finding solutions in overcoming the issues and on promoting regional reconciliation, especially among the youth; transparent and inclusive meetings between the EU, CSOs
Read more →The Global Standard for CSO Accountability launched the new guidance materials tool to help CSOs assess where they stand in relation to the Global Standard. Through the 3-step process organizations can find out how well they perform against the Global Standard’s 12 accountability commitments. The guidance materials not only let interested organizations understand what it
Read more →The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) aims to deploy its funds more effectively and efficiently in the future to help the poorest and most vulnerable communities. In order to ensure a fair and comprehensible distribution of federal government contributions, it has established a transparent system of allocation and set new upper limits. The
Read more →Civic mobilitas announces a call for small grants The general objective of the goal is The social changes in Macedonia are driven by a strong civil sector, active citizens and good cooperation with the authorities, resulting in more transparent, accountable and socially inclusive governance at the national and local level. Grants of up to 330.000
Read more →Creative Force Programme is a funding programme for international projects, open to Swedish organisations and their partners in their target countries who work through media or the arts to strengthen democracy, human rights and freedom of expression. There are two types of funding: Seed Funding is available for carrying out a small project or for
Read more →Through a series of roundtables, panel sessions with prominent speakers and guests from the countries of the European Union and the Western Balkans region, during the years, the Belgrade Open School provides a significant contribution to improving the understanding of the European integration process and providing guidance, recommendations to decision-makers on the need for regional
Read more →The three-day conference, co-hosted by the UN Department of Global Communications, Salt Lake City, and the NGO Executive Committee, will feature opening and closing plenary sessions, interactive thematic sessions, NGO-sponsored workshops, exhibits and a youth hub. Speakers and attendees will include leaders and other representatives from NGOs, UN agencies, academia, faith traditions, the public and
Read more →The Summer School will be organized within the framework of the project FreeMedia4WesternBalkans: Promoting Legal Education in the field of Media law, Democratization and the EU accession process of the SEELS network faculties and the Europa-Institut of Saarland University (Germany), financially supported by DAAD and Federal Foreign Office of Germany. The project fosters media freedom
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