News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has prepared a compilation of practical recommendations for the creation and maintenance of a safe and enabling environment for civil society, based on good practices and lessons learned. In the report, the High Commissioner focuses on examples of practices that optimize civil society’s transformative potential. In this
Read more →The initiative “Gledaj (U)druge” is a result of the raised awareness of the public regarding the importance of the work of civil society organizations, but also as a response to the recent announcement for decreasing the financial support for CSOs’ projects and programmes. The aim is to present to the public the numbers, strength, motivation
Read more →The Ministry of Interior Affairs in Montenegro has submitted for public review two draft regulations: 1) the draft Regulation on the procedure for establishing cooperation between state administration and CSOs, and 2) the draft Regulation on the procedure for conducting public hearings in the preparation of laws. Therefore, the Ministry invites citizens, civil society organizations,
Read more →Bilateral donor funding refers to the donor country’s Government aid to recipient country in a Gov2Gov or a Gov2CivilSociety partnership. It is part of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) policies of the OECD member countries, which plays a major role in providing development funding to Governments and Civil Society. Bilateral donor funding can cover infrastructure,
Read more →From 25th April to 11th May, Civil Society Europe (CSE) launched a survey on the EC Financial Regulations to collect CSOs views on the review of the financial regulations and rules of application of the European Commission. The Survey included questions raised by the European Commission into its own public consultation open until 27 May
Read more →A large academic literature exists that identifies structural, individual and polity-level correlates of opposition to Enlargement, the most important of these being socio-economic status, attachment to national identity, perceived economic threats and political cues. Some recent studies, however, have shown that identity effects can be muted when expectations of economic support are mobilized at the
Read more →Despite a number of historic legal successes in recent years, organizations advocating for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) individuals continue to face monumental challenges in their attempts to exercise their fundamental rights to assemble, associate and express themselves. Such challenges are particularly formidable when they come in the form of
Read more →The CEU Center for European Neighborhood Studies (CENS) and the Andrássy University (AUB) are organizing the regional conference “Regional Cooperation and Regional Identity in the Western Balkans: Similarities and Differences” in Budapest. Maintaining good neighborly relations and participating in regional cooperation, as explicit conditions for progress towards EU integration, is one of the most efficient
Read more →Research on European integration tends to assume that a larger membership weakens the legal system of the European Union (EU) through growing non-compliance with EU law. The main compliance theories expect this negative impact to be particularly salient if Enlargement adds new members that are big, poor, Eurosceptic, or have inefficient bureaucracies. Against these expectations,
Read more →TACSO Macedonia and MCIC (TACSO Resource Center) are organizing a training on “Public Relations for CSOs” from 8-10 June 2016 in Skopje. The training aims to contribute to increasing the knowledge and skills of elected representatives of CSOs in Macedonia on how to improve the image of their organizations and to develop public relations and
Read more →The application process for this year’s “Balkans, Let’s Get Up!” program invites young people, aged 18-27 years, to participate in the educational programme intended for empowerment of young people for active and responsible participation in society, and to contribute to society with a civic initiative. The program consists of three parts: 1) Summer school on “How
Read more →Within the framework of the Western Balkans CSOs for Global Development program, Pontis Foundation and Institute for Democracy and Mediation announce a call for research proposals in the area of global development agenda in the context of Albanian policies, in particular development cooperation policy and awareness raising. The main goal of the proposed activities is
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