TACSO People to People is supporting the following event organized by GONG: The Role of Policy Analysts and Investigative Journalists in Safeguarding Democracy taking place in Zadar, Croatia on 17-21 October 2016. The event “The Role of Policy Analysts and Investigative Journalists in Safeguarding Democracy” represents the fourth iteration of GONG’s Regional School of Policy Analysis, bringing together researchers-activists from former Yugoslav countries. Organizations working in the IPA region from Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo are invited to apply. Interested applicants are requested to complete the online Application Form by September 2, 2016 at 17.00 hrs. More information…
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The annual Global Humanitarian Assistance Report is a leading resource for understanding financing for humanitarian crises globally. Following the new Sustainable Development Goals and World Humanitarian Summit, the report this year begins to set a baseline for measuring progress on the implementation of global commitments to invest in humanity in the years to come. People living in poverty are hardest hit by disasters and insecurity, which in turn make them more vulnerable to future shocks and deeper poverty. At least 76% of people living in extreme poverty – around 677 million people – are estimated to live in countries that…
The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) is committed to a set of principles to guide effective development cooperation and an inclusive multi-stakeholder engagement to implement commitments related to these principles. These commitments were agreed at the Fourth High Level Forum held in Busan, Republic of Korea, in November 2011. It was also agreed following Busan that the GPEDC would implement a partner country-led monitoring process based on ten indicators documenting progress on the Busan commitments. Indicator Two focuses on the Busan commitment to enable “civil society [to operate] within an environment that maximizes its engagement in and contribution…
The first European Civic Academy will look into the complex questions raised by citizens’ disenchantment, practice, and expectation with regard to democracy and in relation to the “democratic deficit” in Europe. The vote for Brexit is the latest illustration of the risk of the disintegration of the European project. For a long time now, democratic disenchantment has constantly been on the increase because of the growing gap between electoral promises and what elected representatives actually do, by the corruption that occurs where the vested interests of economic and political forces meet, by the lack of transparency of decision‐making processes which…
The specific objective of this call for proposals are to: Increase the effectiveness of Serbian CSOs in undertaking initiatives focused on Chapter 23 and 24; to enhance regional cooperation and to strengthen the role of CSOs in the process of negotiations with the EU and policy monitoring. The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 3.800.000. Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the minimum EUR 300.000 and maximum EUR 500.000, with 50%-90% of the total eligible costs of the action. The initial planned duration of an action may not be lower…
Frontier research often generates unexpected or new opportunities for commercial or societal application. The ERC Proof of Concept Grants aim to maximize the value of the excellent research that the ERC funds, by funding further work (i.e. activities which were not scheduled to be funded by the original ERC frontier research grant) to verify the innovation potential of ideas arising from ERC funded projects. The ERC actions are open to researchers of any nationality who intend to conduct their research activity in any Member State or Associated Country. The indicative budget for this call for 2017 is EUR 20 000…
The 19th edition of the USAID CSO Sustainability Index Report, finds that the overall CSO sustainability in the Southern Tier (South East Europe) countries remained largely stagnant in 2015, with only one country –Macedonia- recording a change in overall sustainability as a result of the difficult political environment that restricts civic space. While not leading to a change in overall sustainability, Serbia, Croatia, and Kosovo each reported deterioration in at least two dimensions of sustainability. After steady improvements since 2011, the Serbia report notes decreases in legal environment, advocacy, service provision, and public image. In Croatia, the score for legal…
BCSDN is organizing its annual debate on the state of the enabling environment in which civil society in Enlargement countries operates. The debate taking place under the working title: “Raising Standards, Declining Trends? Operating Environment for Civil Society in Enlargement Countries” is being organized on the occasion of the presentation of the 2015 Monitoring Matrix Regional Report on 7th September 10:00 to 13:00 hrs at the Residence Palace (Maelbeek conference room), Brussels. More information is available here. Source: BCSDN
In 2015, UNCHR, the UN Refugee Agency, counted 60 million people who were forced to leave their homes. Out of these 60 million, 20 million were refugees, according to the Refugee Convention of 1951. This is the highest number of women, men and children on the move since the Second World War. About 87 per cent of the world’s refugees left their country and were given protection in their neighbouring countries, mostly in the global south. Europe has only given protection to around 10 per cent of the world’s refugees. Although the numbers of refugees in the EU have been…
Typically associated with military campaigns, drones—the unarmed kind—are becoming an essential tool for civil society. From a bird’s-eye view, they are exposing the truth about everything from the size of demonstrations to the wealth illegally hoarded by corrupt political elites. More information is available here. Source: Open Society Foundations