News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Foreign policy trend-setters in the Visegrad 4 countries say that the V4 should primarily focus on Eastern policy, migration, energy, energy security, and security, according to the results of the Association for International Affairs (AMO) survey. According to the respondents, the V4 should collaborate more frequently and extend its reach into other areas, yet they
Read more →The Nordic countries are at crossroads that is testing their global role, their leaders and their identity. Their choices will affect the lives of millions of people all over the world. The Nordic countries have a unique role in the world in their efforts in peace, sustainable development and poverty alleviation. They are characterized by
Read more →Between 25th and 27th November, 2015 in Belgrade, TACSO organized the first regional conference on “Philanthropy in the Western Balkans and Turkey: Investment for the Future” which is also the first of its kind in that it gathered CSOs, government representatives, individual and corporate philanthropists and media representatives who are active in this field from
Read more →Based on the model of the International Visegrad Fund (IVF), and in the framework of the Annual Conference of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Visegrad countries and of Western Balkans countries, an Agreement on Establishment of Western Balkans Fund (WBF) was signed on November 13th in Prague, by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Albania,
Read more →As the risks associated with growing labor market deregulation and flexibility are increasingly shifted towards individuals, an increasing number of people are likely to experience unemployment, which can result in declining mental health and well-being. This Third Sector Impact (TSI) working paper asks whether voluntary work can reduce the negative effects of unemployment on well-being.
Read more →BCSDN is proud to present the report on the Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development for the Black Sea Region, assessing the state of the enabling environment in 8 countries of the Black Sea region: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. Commissioned by the Black Sea NGO Forum, the report, prepared by
Read more →The ‘big-bang enlargement’ of the EU has nurtured vivid debates among academics, practitioners and EU citizens about the consequences of ‘an ever larger Union’ for the EU’s integration capacity. Over the past two years MAXCAP has examined whether the Eastern enlargement of 2004 and 2007 has limited the EU’s internal capacity to enlarge further and
Read more →Pandering to public opinion’s enlargement fatigue by ruling out any more EU newcomers before 2019 has sent confused political signals to Balkan candidate countries. Frank Schimmelfennig, Professor of European Politics at ETH Zurich, partner in the joint MAXCAP project, analyses the outcomes in an opinion published in the Europe’s World journal autumn 2015 issue. According
Read more →Private development assistance is finance from private sources given voluntarily through formal channels, including CSOs, and transferred across borders to promote international development and reduce poverty. If the international community is to meet the goal of ending absolute poverty by 2030, all available resources for development – not just official development assistance (ODA) – need
Read more →Civil society is a powerful thing. It can change discriminatory laws, transform societies and hold governments to account. But how can donors contibute to building effective civil society? This was the big question of a twitter chat Bond co-hosted with the UK Department for International Development (DFID) as part of DFID’s review of its partnership
Read more →With a delay of ten days, the UN has published the final outcome document for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to be officially adopted at the UN Summit on 25th-27th September, 2015, in New York. The Agenda sets out the aims of the organization and all its members for the coming 15 years in the
Read more →Should aid continue to flow to middle-income countries, or should the world’s poorest countries receive a greater share? It is a debate that has intensified since world leaders set the millennium development goals (MDGs) 15 years ago, during which time more than 30 countries have moved from low- to middle-income status. MDG8, which aims to
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