News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Civil society space is increasingly a key issue for humanitarian organisations. Independent research carried out for ICVA in the summer of 2018 sought to identify civil society needs in this area and help define the potential role of ICVA in helping and supporting its membership to navigate, protect and expand civil society space. Civil society
Read more →9 December is International Anti-Corruption Day. Corruption impacts the poorest and most vulnerable in society the hardest. It is ordinary citizens who suffer most when the corrupt steal funds intended for public services like infrastructure, healthcare and education, or take back-handers to award lucrative contracts to their cronies. One in four people around the world
Read more →The EU should increase the resources to promote democracy, rule of law and fundamental rights across the Union, including support to civil society organisations working in the field. The Civil Liberties Committee backed on Monday a budget of 1.834 billion euro for the Rights and Values Programme for the period 2021-2027, way over the 642
Read more →The EU budget for developing countries should be about tackling poverty in the poorest countries, not making profit for the richest. Fierce negotiations are taking place today, as EU ministers for foreign affairs begin to thrash out a deal on the next budget allocation for development cooperation and neighbouring countries, to be spent between 2021-2027.
Read more →The challenges we face are global and existential – climate change, technological capabilities, and democratic practice are domains in which the assumptions and practices that brought us to 2019 are clearly not working for most of the people on the planet. At such times it seems necessary to question whether doing the same thing we’ve
Read more →The overall objective of this call is sustainable development in the cross-border area between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, promoted by the implementation of common actions. The following thematic priorities are covered with this Call: (1) Promoting employment, labour mobility and social and cultural inclusion across the border; (2) Protecting environment, promoting climate change adaptation
Read more →The Embassy of the Netherlands invites Turkish civil society, non-profit educational institutions, lower governments and semi-governmental organizations to submit new proposals to get support for their work. Priority areas for Turkey are identified within the overall framework of rule of law: Legislation and law; Governance, public order and police; and Human rights and minorities. Project
Read more →IRI is soliciting small grant applications from organizations local to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and/or Serbia that seek to build resilience to violent extremism. IRI will disburse a total of up to USD 50.000 to up to 15 small grants, with a goal of roughly even distribution across each of the
Read more →Under the present Call for Proposals, RYCO intends to support and empower civil society organizations and secondary schools to implement activities in the areas of regional youth cooperation, mobility and exchange; and enabling environment for regional youth cooperation. The General Objective of this Call is to contribute to the process of reconciliation in the region
Read more →BCSDN, in cooperation with CIVICUS and Civic Initiatives, and with support from the Balkan Trust for Democracy, is launching a call for ICSW/local events in the Western Balkans to bring diverse civil society and community perspectives into the global conversations at the International Civil Society Week 2019. CSOs from the region are invited to apply
Read more →This regional conference, organized by the Institute for Democracy and Mediation, Belgrade Open School, Analitika Center for Social Research and the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities, aims to explore threats and opportunities for the role of religion in Western Balkans societies and to contribute to enhancing societal and policy mechanisms to better respond to
Read more →The conference “Call to Europe in the Western Balkans” will bring together politicians, experts, representatives of civil society and the media from the Western Balkans to discuss the current and future political processes in the European Union, which include the forthcoming elections for the European Parliament in 2019, the numerous calls for reforms within the
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