News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The 20th Issue of the Assembly and Association Briefing, the newsletter of Maina Kiai, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association has been published. In this issue you can read about: the closing space for civil society in the United Kingdom, as noted by the Special Rapporteur after
Read more →The Center for Research and Policy-Making and the Ministry of Information Society and Administration are organizing the second public event “Open Government Partnership – a dialogue with civil society on the National Action Plan 2016-2018” which will be held on 11th May, 2016 in Skopje. The event aims to present the first Open Government Partnership
Read more →The European Citizenship Awards 2016 are a joint initiative between Volonteurope and European Civic Forum, two European networks promoting active citizenship and social justice. The Awards will celebrate initiatives and actors who put European citizenship into practice and have a real, positive impact on their communities – be it at the local, regional, national or
Read more →The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is United Nations central platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals. The 2016 session of the HLPF will address the theme “Ensuring that no one is left behind”. It will feature voluntary reviews of 22 countries and
Read more →The Regional Cooperation Council Secretariat (RCC) is seeking proposals for the implementation of the South East Europe 2020 (SEE 2020) Strategy with financial assistance from the RCC Small Grants Instrument for 2016. The total amount for these grants is 300.000 EUR. The Small Grants Programme focuses on three thematic areas: 1) Promotion and dissemination of
Read more →The Civica Mobilitas action grants support CSOs that want to promote their causes and activities including: training of their constituents; strengthening the relations with citizens, communities and the general public; and contribute towards achieving positive social change. The duration of activities under this call must be at least 12 and at most 24 months. The
Read more →The objective of the call for proposals is to contribute to the development of a social finance market by enabling more social enterprises to take on repayable finance for developing and scaling up their innovative business model. In order to take into account the variety of social finance market situations, the call offers several strands:
Read more →The Global Standard is an initiative of well-established civil society networks from around the world, aiming to strengthen the effectiveness of CSOs worldwide by devising a collective accountability standard. The networks will over three years cooperate to learn from each other, gain a truly global view on CSO accountability, improve their codes and reduce transaction
Read more →CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) is requesting the input of the European Region on the Zero Draft of the Outcome Document of the Second High Level Meeting (HLM2) of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC). GPEDC brings together the full range of development actors to ensure that finance, knowledge and policy have maximum
Read more →About 900 civil society leaders and activists from more than 109 countries were in Bogota to discuss active citizenry and how to overcome threats faced by civil society groups during the International Civil Society Week 2016 that started on April 25. This was the largest and most diverse gathering of its kind and the first
Read more →On 27-28 April, TACSO held the Regional Conference “Monitoring of the EU Guidelines for the Support to Civil Society in the Enlargement Countries, 2014-2020 – Year 2” in Skopje, Macedonia. The conference gathered more than 80 participants among which representatives of EC Brussels, TACSO, SIPU International, media, and representatives of state institutions and CSOs from
Read more →On 19th April in Skopje, MCIC organized a thematic debate entitled “Setting the Records Straight: Availability of Public Funding for Civil Society in the Western Balkans and Turkey (WBT) Region”, gathering civil society and state institution representatives. Speakers at the event were: Stefania Andersen (Foundation for Development of Civil Society in Romania) presenting the best
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