News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The UN Trust Fund has launched the 2017 Call for Proposals for its 21st grants cycle to support civil society organizations that qualify for funding (a) under the three programmatic areas of the UN Trust Fund Strategic Plan 2015-2020, (b) under the “special window” addressing violence against women and girls in the context of the
Read more →EUROPEANS FOR PEACE promotes international exchange projects for young people from countries of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Israel and Germany. Schools and non-school educational institutions can join up in international partnerships and apply for funding for their joint project. Under the theme “Celebrate diversity! Youth exchange for all”, EUROPEANS FOR PEACE encourages young people
Read more →After the open call for an Executive Director during October 2017, the Board of BCSDN has elected Ilina Neshikj for the position of BCSDN Executive Director. The decision takes effect as of 1 November 2017, giving Ilina a mandate of three years on this position. Over the past seven years, Ms. Neshikj has been a
Read more →The OECD-DAC convened at high level in Paris on 30 and 31 October to discuss about a range of issues of particular importance for international development, such as how to enhance the engagement of private sector in development, how donors can improve effectiveness of their development actions, and about the consequences of discontinuing ODA to
Read more →By failing to adequately limit population growth, reassess the role of an economy rooted in growth, reduce greenhouse gases, incentivise renewable energy, protect habitat, restore ecosystems, curb pollution, halt defaunation, and constrain invasive alien species, humanity is not taking the urgent steps needed to safeguard our imperilled biosphere. These words are signed by 15.364 climate
Read more →In the period 2013-2016, an average of 270 mil MKD (approx. 4.4 mil EUR and 0.14% of the total budget expenditures of the Republic of Macedonia) per year are allocated to CSOs from the state budget mainly through the budget line 463. The allocation of budget funds is carried out by the General Secretariat of
Read more →On 3 October 2017, a concept document to improve government communication was drafted by Kosovo’s PM office with input from civil society groups. It includes an analysis of the government’s current communication strategy as well as recommendations for improving future communication with both the media and the public. The draft is being analysed by the
Read more →All over the world, we are seeing systematic attacks on CSOs. Governments are placing legal restrictions on non-governmental organisations and erecting administrative barriers that make it more difficult for them to operate. Activists have been particularly impacted as their organisations are subject to increased surveillance, harassment or arrest, and their activities are being driven underground.
Read more →The MDG period saw dramatic progress for many of the world’s poorest, and UK aid played a vital role in this accomplishment. Simultaneously, economic growth more than halved the number of low-income countries. However, more people living in poverty now reside in middle-income countries than any other income classification, yet donors often rely on economic
Read more →According to the 2017 Global Trends in Giving Report, a donor’s ideology has more impact upon which causes and types of nonprofits they support than gender or age. Donors with a conservative ideology are more traditional in their giving while donors with a liberal ideology are more diverse in the types of causes they support.
Read more →The National Office for Cooperation with NGOs in Montenegro and a team of the EU project “Technical Support to the Development of Institutional Mechanisms for Cooperation between the Government and NGOs” launched the website NVOInfo. The website seeks to provide an insight into NGO activities, thus contributing to better perception and understanding of their role
Read more →One precious lesson learned by the European Union from the experience of its eastward expansion between 2004 and 2013, and applied now in the case of the Balkan aspiring members, has been to complement the politics of conditionality with the politics of pressure, whereby the region’s governments are ‘squeezed’ between societal demands and an uncompromising
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