News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The specific objective of this CfP is strengthening the capacity of civil society organizations for more effective action in the promotion of political, civil, economic, social and cultural rights in Serbia. The overall indicative amount made available under this call is EUR 1.750.000 while any grant requested must fall between EUR 50.000 and EUR 300.000,
Read more →The Monitoring Matrix 2015 Reports on Enabling Environment (EE) for Civil Society Development (CSDev) for all seven countries are now available. The reports present the developments in EE in 2015, outlining the key conclusions and recommendations for improvement. After publishing the baseline reports in 2013 and 2014, the 2015 reports are focused on presenting situation
Read more →The Global NPO Coalition on FATF, representing a wide coalition of non-profit organisations (NPOs), applauds the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) recent update to its counter-terrorism recommendation on NPOs. NPOs hail the removal of the long-standing characterization of non-profits as “particularly vulnerable” to terrorist abuse from Recommendation 8 (R8). The previous language led to overregulation
Read more →On 21-22 June in Skopje, BCSDN organized a regional capacity-building event within the scope of the project Western Balkan CSOs in Global Development. In the context of the future enlargement of the EU in Western Balkan countries, the project will raise capacities of CSOs to engage in political dialogue, advocacy and awareness rising of global
Read more →Being cognizant of the fact that is it crucial time for protecting fundamental rights, such as freedom of assembly, on 21st of June, 2016, the European Center for Non-for-Profit Law hosted an expert conference on freedom of peaceful assembly in the Western Balkans “Right to Free Assembly: Making Democracy Work” in Skopje, Macedonia. The event
Read more →The latest CIVICUS Watch Report shows that in 2015 one or more of the core civil society freedoms – freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, were seriously violated in at least 109 countries. Of the three core civil society freedoms, the freedom of association was most frequently violated. In the Western Balkans region, the
Read more →The 2016 State of Civil Society Report summarizes the key events, issues and trends affecting civil society around the world. The 5th annual report draws on contributions from more than 30 of the world’s leading experts on civil society as well as investigative work from the CIVICUS staff, which was conducted in close partnership with
Read more →More than 244 CSOs from all around the world sent a joint open letter to call delegations worldwide, in order to stand in solidarity with civil society by supporting the draft resolution on the protection of civil society space, to be considered for adoption on the 32nd session of the Human Right Council (on 30
Read more →On the 27th of June, Civic Initiatives, Serbia, invited CSOs on a meeting that will take place on the 29th of June in Novi Sad (Serbia), regarding the amendments on the Law on Associations and the Law on Foundations contained in the Civil Code. Namely, the working group established by the Government of the Republic of
Read more →BCSDN is proud to present its latest policy brief, authored by Biljana Spasovska, BCSDN’s Policy and Advocacy Officer, assessing how the EU support for regional partnerships of civil society has contributed to fostering democratic reforms and more effective policies in the democracy and rule of law areas (incl. human rights, social dialogue) in current Enlargement
Read more →MCIC has translated into Macedonian language the third report submitted to the General Assembly by the Special Rapporteur, which was presented to the United Nations General Assembly in October 2015. In the report, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association is comparing the enabling environments for businesses and
Read more →MAXCAPs working paper no. 23 assesses the external political integration capacity of the EU across neighbours, candidates, and new members in different regions of Eastern Europe. External integration capacity refers to the ability of the EU to prepare non-members for accession and association, respectively; political integration capacity refers to strengthening democracy and governance effectiveness in.
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