News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Together the European Union and its Member States provide over 50 % of all global development aid, making them the world’s largest donors of official development assistance (ODA). In 2015, the EU’s collective ODA amounted to EUR 68 billion. As one of the oldest external activities of the European Communities, development policy was originally focused
Read more →How will the US development cooperation look like under the next administration? USAID is still waiting for the transition team and no one knows who will make up Tramp’s landing team. Officials expected that the new administration would arrive last month, and that a bulk of the transition effort would be spent on in-person briefings
Read more →The regional expert meeting was organized by a core group of the Global NPO Coalition on FATF in London on September 21, 2016. The goal of the meeting was to address the evaluation process from a government, nonprofit and FATF perspective in light of the recent revision of FATF Recommendation 8 (R8) and its Interpretative
Read more →The Western Balkan countries do not have an advocacy strategy aimed at the relevant target groups in the EU. The Advocacy Strategy for the EU Integration of the Western Balkans – Guidelines (ASWB), developed by eight Western Balkan and Visegrad Group think tanks, is the first initiative of the kind. This document aims at supporting
Read more →Europe has seen a surge in recent years of support for populist and nationalist movements – from Spain to the UK to Turkey. The reasons are manifold and complex, but are driven to a large degree by the belief that traditional democratic institutions. For example, Citizens from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Romania are the
Read more →TUSEV recently published the Individual Giving and Philanthropy in Turkey report, which presents comprehensive and up to date data on perception on philanthropy, trends and motivations in individual giving in Turkey as well as providing a comparison on the change in the understanding of philanthropy and giving practices in the last decade. According to the
Read more →On 3rd December, in Tirana, CSOs and government representatives will meet at the National Conference: “Boasting Towards a Better Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development in Albania”, to discuss the most problematic issues regarding legal and fiscal obligations for CSOs and provide recommendations for further amendments of taxation laws and bylaws in order to ensure a
Read more →Government officials from the Western Balkans can now apply for a three-month fellowship in EU government institutions in Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden. Fellowship Programme for Government Officials is EFB’s flagship intervention focused on EU integration-driven reforms of the Western Balkans’ administrations by educating and motivating public officials to practice
Read more →The Civic Engagement Project is a five-year USAID-funded program that contributes to achieving two objectives: (1) strengthened the influence of CSOs on policies and programs related to priority issues of citizen concern; and (2) increased and sustained youth engagement in public life in Macedonia. The Partnership Grants will be managed by Metamorphosis. The aim of
Read more →Schüler Helfen Leben (SHL) is seeking applications for support of educational youth project activities in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia. This year SHL will pay exclusive attention to projects that approach challenges in the context of migration and immigration of youth – may it either be young refugees, IDPs, returnees, asylum
Read more →The number of internal conflicts and conflicts between nations has continued to increase in recent years. This trend is accompanied by a rising number of local, regional, and international conflict transformation initiatives. The aim is to support those projects that serve to facilitate conflict transformation in conflict (and post-conflict) societies in different regions. As a
Read more →The United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), supports projects that strengthen the voice of civil society, promote human rights, and encourage the participation of all groups in democratic processes. The large majority of UNDEF funds go to local civil society organizations. This is the Eleventh Round to be launched by UNDEF, which provides grants of up
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