News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Young policy experts and/or civic activists from Central Europe and the Eastern Partnership countries with proven track record of policy analysis and/or civil society engagement are invited to apply for the German Marshall Fund of the United States new fellowship program launched last year. A year-long non-resident fellowship, including two workshops on policy research and
Read more →The Civil Society Scholar Awards support international academic mobility to enable doctoral students and university faculty to access resources that enrich socially-engaged research and critical scholarship in their home country or region. Civil Society Scholars are selected on the basis of their outstanding contributions to research or other engagement with local communities, to furthering debates
Read more →The eleventh edition of the Democracy Index reveals that political participation is on the rise in almost every region of the world. Whilst clearly disillusioned with formal political institutions, the population has turned anger into action, and turned out to vote, and to protest. The most striking advance has been in the participation of women
Read more →The EU conditionality for the aspiring members of the Western Balkans in the rule of law field has been constantly upgraded over the past years. Nevertheless, its impact remains rather limited. This policy study contains three sections that analyse the core problems of the EU’s current approach to the promotion of the rule of law
Read more →Landell Mills Limited (UK) is conducting an evaluation on behalf of DG NEAR of the European Commission, of the ‘EU’s engagement with Civil Society in the enlargement, neighbourhood regions and Russia over the period 2007-2018.’ As part of the evaluation, Landell Mills Limited requests feedback from individuals affiliated with the civil society sphere located in
Read more →The right to free assembly is an indispensable element of democracy and a healthy civil society. Recent years have seen a new era of mass protests, but also a significant increase in practical restrictions on the right in Western Balkan and Eastern Partnership countries. This year’s ECNL monitoring reports build on previous efforts to monitor
Read more →The Western Balkans has attracted new attention in recent months. Though, as ever, not for the best of reasons. People have taken years of accumulated anger, frustration, and rage out onto the streets. In the last 20 years, the Western Balkans has seen little progress. Political leadership from the 1990s may have changed colours, but
Read more →Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI) is a collaborative of six funders working to expand the impact and scale of global transparency, accountability, and participation (TAP) initiatives. In recent years, a growing body of evidence demonstrates global shifts in legal and political contexts that constrain what civil society actors can say, where and how they operate,
Read more →As we enter 2019, there is a burst of discussion within the human rights community around the need for new narratives that build public support for human rights. While the human rights movement grapples with a rise in authoritarian populism, increased restrictions on civil society and weakened support for international law, winning over the “hearts
Read more →The first call for applications for Visegrad, Visegrad+ and Strategic Grants has been published. With grants, Visegrad Fund supports cross-border and transnational projects in Visegrad region, Eastern Partnership and Western Balkans countries. The fund aims to advance innovative ideas that address shared challenges by high quality regional cooperation projects. From small cross-border projects that strive
Read more →“Divided Past – Joint Future” is a project implemented by a consortium of 18 partners (7 IPA beneficiary countries plus Slovenia, Croatia, Austria and Netherland). Within the project, Youth Communication Centre from Bosnia and Herzegovina has announced a call for proposals No.2 for sub-granting of projects of NGOs, CSOs that are registered in one of
Read more →Partners Albania continues the implementation of the project “EMBRACE – Entrepreneurship Models Building Relations and Creative Economy” with the lunch of the second call for expression of interest by civil society organizations, for the capacity development program with regards to initiation/ strengthening of the business models or entrepreneurship initiatives by CSOs, contributing to the social economy of
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