On July 21st, 2016, at the EU Info Center Skopje, Macedonia, the Embassy of Poland in Macedonia organized an informative session about funding opportunities for regional cooperation projects in the Western Balkans. The aim of the session was to pinpoint to the reforms that are to be introduced within the International Visegrad Fund, as well as to introduce the newly established Western Balkans Fund. Ms. Beata Jaczewska, Executive Director of the International Visegrad Fund highlighted that the International Visegrad Fund is having discussions over introducing reforms that will further simplify the application process but also a new impact change methodology.…
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On July 15th 2016, our member organization, Civic Initiatives had its annual Assembly meeting. Milan Podunavac, Vukašin Pavlović, Nada Korać, Nada Marinković, Rade Radovanović, Srđan Bogosavljević and Dubravka Velat, as well as CI management were present. Gathered members of the assembly are pleased with the results presented, having in mind the complexity of the current environment CI is operating in, compared to the time Civic Initiatives was established. At the Assembly, new Board of Directors was elected – Ivana Ćirković, Relja Dereta, Mia Vukojević, Žarko Puhovski and Srđan Bogosavljević. The Managing board elected Ivana Ćirković for the president of the…
On July 20th, 2016, the Office for Cooperation with Non-Governmental Organizations in Macedonia published the List of candidates according to the number of votes for members of the Council for Cooperation between the Government and Civil Society. During the voting procedure, a total of 192 CSOs submitted their votes, of which 128 were valid, 54 were invalid, while 10 votes were submitted after the deadline for voting. The voting procedure comes after a series of concerns of Macedonian CSOs over the sudden adoption of the Decision on the Establishment of the Council for Cooperation between the Government and Civil Society…
With the MAXCAP project officially coming to its end in April 2016, BCSDN collected and summarized the main working papers in an overview of all research related to EU Enlargement process in the Western Balkans and Turkey. The publication contains also the policy briefs that aim to formulate specific policy recommendations for practitioners on the EU and/or national level. The project: Maximizing the integration capacity of the European Union: Lessons and prospects for enlargement and beyond (MAXCAP) was a collaborative project of 9 partners consortium academic excellence that seek to explain the outcomes of the EU’s enlargement process – and…
The Third Sector Impact released its 10th Working Paper “Assessing the Macro Socio-Economic Impact of the Third Sector in Europe”. In it, TSI coordinator Bernard Enjolras proposes a theoretical model for conceiving how the development of the third sector at the aggregated level may produce positive impacts for society by analyzing available data in order to find empirical support to his explanatory model however he does not address causality issues. The paper problematizes reliance on quantitative measurement solely, arguing that multidimensional criteria are needed to capture the socio-economic impact of third sector activity. He explains that outputs and outcomes of…
A collaborative research project by the Public Interest Registry and Nonprofit Tech for Good, the 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report is an inaugural effort to gain a better understanding of how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide use online technology to communicate with their supporters and donors. Over the last two decades the NGO sector has embraced Internet technology, but at varying speeds based upon the Internet infrastructure of the country in which they reside. Social, economic, and political factors in each of the world’s countries have either hastened or hindered the development of Internet infrastructure, yet there is little research…
East European Politics is a refereed journal, which publishes articles in the government, politics and international relations of the post-communist space. The editors of East European Politics (EEP) open a call for themed special issue proposals for Volume 34 (2018). The editors seek collections of excellent research articles on any aspect of the government, politics, and international relations of the post-communist space. EEP covers the entire post-communist region, including East Central and Southeastern Europe, Russia, and all the other countries of the former Soviet Union. Proposals should be sent to the editors – Adam Fagan (a.fagan@qmul.ac.uk) and Petr Kopecky (kopecky@fsw.leidenuniv.nl)…
The International Conference Development and Democracy is a leading event on development cooperation in the region. Through stirring the wider professional and academic debate, the conference addresses the most pressing current global challenges and facilitates discussion on innovative approaches in the global efforts to Leave No One Behind. Root causes of poverty and instability in the world need to be addressed if we are to successfully deliver on the SDGs and ambitious 2030 Agenda. Academic and non-academic contributions are invited in a wide range of topics underlying issues associated with development cooperation. The full paper submission deadline is September 8th…
The specific objective of this Call for Proposals is to encourage the participation of civil society in countering violent extremisms and engaging at local level in sensitive areas where radicalization is more eager to spread. The global objective of this Call for Proposals is to encourage the active participation of civil society in policy-making and contributing to the fulfilment of Albania’s obligations under the EU Albania Stabilization and Association Agreement. Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between EUR 200.000 and EUR 335.00, with 50%-95% of the total eligible costs of the action. The initial planned duration…
The EESC 2016 prize will reward initiatives carried out by civil society organizations and/or individuals and aimed at improving migrants’ lives and fostering their integration in society. Its overall objective is to raise awareness of the contribution that civil society organizations and/or individuals can make to the creation of a European identity and citizenship in a way that underpins the common values that shore up European integration. The prize, which has a total value of 50 000 € and will be awarded on 15 December 2016, is open to civil society organizations officially registered within the European Union and acting…