News and updates from BCSDN and the region
After more than two years of intense negotiations, the UN’s 193 member states have unanimously agreed on a new Sustainable Development Agenda with 17 goals — including the elimination of extreme poverty and hunger — to be reached by 2030. An assessment of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals prepared by CIVICUS is
Read more →Being part of the accession process, the legislation and the practices in the field of CSO’s financing is included in the Acquis. The process of decentralized management of EC assistance, enables the national institutions to assume the obligations of managing financial procedures and rules under PRAG. Except in Croatia, the current approach adopted by the
Read more →Despite high expectations, the third International Conference on Financing for Development, organized on 13th to 16th July in Addis Ababa, ended on a predictable note: the United Nations proclaimed it a roaring success while most CSOs expressed scepticism over the final outcome. Hours after the conclusion of the conference in the Ethiopian capital, the UN
Read more →Despite high expectations, the third International Conference on Financing for Development, organized on 13th to 16th July in Addis Ababa, ended on a predictable note: the United Nations proclaimed it a roaring success while most CSOs expressed scepticism over the final outcome. Hours after the conclusion of the conference in the Ethiopian capital, the UN
Read more →The European Council on Foreign Relations, the Ministry of Foregn affaires of Bulgaria and the Sofia Platform have announced an International consultation with think-tank representatives in the framework of EU’s Global Foreign Policy Strategy Review in Sofia on the 23 of July. In 2015 we face a Europe that is “more connected, more contested and
Read more →Slovakia’s Visegrad Four (V4: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) presidency expires this month. In hindsight, Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák is convinced it was an extremely dynamic term, during which, some 140 events associating both politicians and experts were organised. The V4 followed up on the inter-regional dialogue with countries of the Western
Read more →BCSDN and its members are proud to announce the successful applicants for funding under the Balkan Public Policy Fund Programme. Out of 47 submitted project proposals from organizations from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, 12 proposals were selected for funding (2 per country). The pilot phase of the Slovak and Balkan
Read more →BCSDN, in partnership with European Center for Non-profit Law (ECNL), has published the second Regional Report on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development in Enlargement Countries, presenting the regional state of play of civil society in 2014 and highlighting the priorities for intervention by national and EU insittutions at the regional level towards creating a more enabling environment
Read more →Lack of transparency by major European donors is hindering development outcomes in some of the poorest countries in the world, according to Publish What You Fund’s latest report. Nine out of 16 key EU donors and institutions are still not publishing their data on time and in detail, leaving recipient countries in the dark about
Read more →The 12th edition of the Guide for potential domestic and foreign sources of funding, prepared by Civic Initiatives in cooperation with 3 Government bodies (SIPRU, GOfCSO, SEIO), gathers in one place all the information on available calls and funding by international and national donors, as well as state institutions. Users of these funds can be CSOs, municipalities,
Read more →BCSDN and its members announce the third Call for Proposals for organizations from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia to develop policy or advocacy proposals, this time within the scope of the IPA FPA Balkan Civil Society Acquis – Strengthening the Monitoring and Advocacy Capacities and Potential of CSOs. The specific objective
Read more →The brief highlights the brighter side of CSOs state support, namely best practices of non- financial support (NFS) in order to demonstrate that these are possible and desirable for civil society development (CSDev) and sustainability in the Balkan countries and Turkey. The evaluation of NFS was guided by Standard 4: Non-financial support is available from
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