News and updates from BCSDN and the region
A very broad international group of Civil Society Organizations has published a critical response to a paper outlining elements of a Financing for Development (FfD) Agenda by the co-chairs of the preparatory process of the upcoming 3rd FfD Conference in Addis Ababa in July 2015. Overall, the document provides an outlook of the policy proposals
Read more →Months of effort and research invested by BCSDN and Queen Mary University of London are now available in a publication entitled “Donor strategies and practices for supporting civil society in the Western Balkans” – a report that depicts the trends and practices that donors active in the region apply in supporting civil society. The motive
Read more →The enabling environment for civil society is broadly defined as the conditions within which civil society works. Specifically, enabling environment is viewed as the varied array of conditions – economic, political, social, cultural, legal, and otherwise – that affect the capacity of citizens, whether individually or collectively, to voluntarily participate in civil society. The enabling environment
Read more →BCSDN for the 6th time has analyzed how the European Commission has treated the issue of civil society development and assessed the progress made in the Enlargement countries within the Enlargement Strategy 2014-2015 and the country Progress Reports recently being published. In brief, the analysis shows the Commission has unified itsapproach towards the issue of
Read more →A total of 21 public policy papers have been published in a joint Slovak Balkan Public Policy Fund (SBPPF) publication, prepared by BCSDN. Considering that the EU accession process is the key transformation and reform factor, the effort of the SBPPF Programme was focused on assisting both CSOs and individual young researchers in the development
Read more →On 20 June 2014, another SBPPF grantee, the SOS Telephone for Women and Children Victims of Violence, publicly presented their policy research “Institutional Mechanisms for Prevention from Family Violence and their Enforcement in Montenegro”, in the PR Center in Podgorica, Montenegro. The research, whose objective was to analyze the institutional and the administrative capacities and
Read more →On 30 April 2014 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Center for Research and Development (CERD), one of the SBPPF grantees, organized a conference for presenting their policy paper on “Social Services and Public-Private Partnerships: The Role of NGOs”. In front of the present representatives of the civil society in B&H, the media, students and
Read more →On 19 June 2014, Mikro Art, a SBPPF grantee from Serbia, held a press conference and presented their Policy Paper “Citizens in City Development”. This analysis of citizens’ participation in urban development in Serbia shows discrepancy between official strategic documents which proclaim the need for transparent and participatory urban and spatial planning and actual legal
Read more →The Metamorphosis Foundation, one of the SBPPF grantees, organized a conference for presentation of the final findings from the research of the gov.mk websites within the framework of the project “Increasing the Use of gov.mk Websites as Tools for Transparency, Accountability and e-Participation”. The conference took place at the EU InfoCentre on June 17, 2014
Read more →BCSDN is proud to present the 1st-ever Regional Report on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development in Enlargement Countries, developed in partnership with European Center for Non-profit Law (ECNL). This report summarizes the key findings from 8 country reports in the Western Balkans and Turkey, prepared by using the Monitoring Matrix on Enabling Environment for Civil
Read more →On 30 May 2014, the Center for Civic Education (Montenegro) organized a press conference where they presented their policy paper on “The role of inspection in the fight against corruption”, supported through SBPPF. The study was presented by Ms. Tamara MILAŠ, programme assistant in the CCE, and Mr. Boris MARIĆ, senior legal advisor in the
Read more →On 30th of May, Analytica, one of the SBPPF Grantees, organized the promotion of their policy paper called „Energy and security sector governance in Macedonia: How to improve its efficiency?“. The research analyzes the energy and security sector governance in Macedonia by focusing on the energy and security sector institutions‘ efficiency in order to draft
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