News and updates from BCSDN and the region
As part of their ongoing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Project, NonProfit Quarterly and the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network started to publish articles on justice and diversity in US. The first article is dedicated to exclusion of young and emerging movements and organizations that deal with civic engagement and empowerment in underrepresented communities from donors’
Read more →This handbook aims to provide guidance for the police in facilitating the right to assemble peacefully. The handbook has been written primarily for police officers working in the OSCE area who have command responsibilities, at any level, for the policing of public assemblies. The handbook outlines key steps and principles for careful police work with
Read more →A common conceptualization is an important milestone towards measuring the third sector in Europe as there remains a kind of conceptual ambiguity about the manifold types of entities that co-exist in the third sector. The achievement of conceptual clarification is a key objective of the TSI project and the second TSI working paper reports on
Read more →A vast gap exists between the rights guaranteed by the EU in the key EU treaties and the exercise of these rights. Unclear laws, disempowerment or fear of reprisal can prevent people from knowing and enjoying their rights. The EU’s main response to ensure that these values are upheld are through Article 11 of the
Read more →Since the launch of the Participatory Governance (PG) Project in 2006, CIVICUS seeks to contribute to inclusive governance processes with a combined focus on capacity-building, networking and knowledge sharing involving not only participatory governance practitioners but also civil society, governments and other sectors. The Participatory Governance (PG) toolkit contains tools and resources relating to 9
Read more →Swiss Cooperation Office in Kosovo (SCO-K) and Kosovar Civil Society Foundation (KCSF) have opened the possibility for submitting nominations for the DSP Award For Democracy within Democratic Society Promotion (DSP) project. DSP invites all interested parties to nominate individuals or organizations which they consider have made a distinguished contribution to the democratization of the country.
Read more →The Croatian United Nations Association (CUNA) is opening a call for applications for participants of the educational programme ‘UN Academy 2016′. The aim of the program is to familiarize its participants with the structure and work of the United Nations, with a particular emphasis on the international financial system and international financial institutions as well
Read more →The EU Delegation in Macedonia is seeking project proposals for strengthening the impact of CSOs in public and EU Acquis-related policies and decision making, including strengthening the civil and political dialogue and thus influencing key sector reforms for further support to the EU integration processes. This Call includes three Priority areas: 1) Support to civil
Read more →The 1st Call for Proposals within Interreg IPA Cross-border Cooperation Programme Croatia-Bosnia and Herzegovina-Montenegro 2014-2020 has been launched, covering the years 2015 to 2017. The programme consists of following 4 priority axes: 1) Improving the quality of the services in public health and social care sector; 2) Protecting the environment and nature, improving risk prevention
Read more →The main objective of the Euro-Mediterranean development cooperation through the Thematic Fund “Democratization and Civil Society Development 2.0” is to support joint action to find a systematic model supporting social development and civil society development in different programming areas: youth; human rights and migration; women; sustainable socio-economic development (culture, tourism, ecology, social entrepreneurship). The maximum
Read more →In 2015, for the first time, BCSDN and its members collected and studied data on the non-profit sector in seven countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey, giving an overview of the current situation with the data collection, analysis and presentation. The study exposes the lack of availability of these data
Read more →The revisions of the UN 2003 Non-Profit Institutions (NPI) Handbook, led by the Center for Civil Society Studies at Johns Hopkins University, were discussed at a seminar organized on 8th March on the sidelines of the 47th Session of the UN Statistical Commission. The NPI Handbook guides national statistics agencies in reporting – in collaboration
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