On the 12th of April, 2013, Civic Initiatives (CI) organized a consultative meeting, regarding the new Public procurement law, between representatives of organizations and institutions at the Human Rights House. According to CI, the implementation of this law can hamper CSOs to provide social, educational and other services, which can greatly endanger their work and affect the users of their services. The new law introduced an obligation to obtain a banking guarantee for pre-financing and for participation in tenders above 5 million RSD, which discriminates in advance civil society organizations and all other legal entities which do not own property…
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On the 10th of April, 2013 BCSDN and Civic Initiatives held the kick-off event for the Monitoring Matrix on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development in Belgrade, Serbia. The Matrix forms part of the BCSDN led project: “Balkan Civil Society Acquis: Strengthening the potential and capacity of civil society organizations for advocacy and lobbying”. At the event the Matrix was presented and discussed by Dubravka Velat, Executive Director, and Marija Dimitrijevic Miskovic, Project Coordinator for Serbia, from Civic Initiatives. It also hosted Tanja Hafner Ademi, Executive Director of BCSDN, and Ivana Cirkovic, Director of the Office for Cooperation with civil…
On the 10th of April, 2013 BCSDN and Civic Initiatives held the kick-off event for the Monitoring Matrix on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development in Belgrade, Serbia. The Matrix forms part of the BCSDN led project: “Balkan Civil Society Acquis: Strengthening the potential and capacity of civil society organizations for advocacy and lobbying”. At the event the Matrix was presented and discussed by Dubravka Velat, Executive Director, and Marija Dimitrijevic Miskovic, Project Coordinator for Serbia, from Civic Initiatives. It also hosted Tanja Hafner Ademi, Executive Director of BCSDN, and Ivana Cirkovic, Director of the Office for Cooperation with civil…
The Institute for Democracy and Mediation has launched the 4th edition of their lecture series entitled “The World of Think Tanks” on the 30th of March 2013. “The World of Think Tanks” consists of twelve lectures focusing on the inner workings of civil society. The first two lectures so far in the series were presented by Ms. Juliana Hoxha and Mr. Gjergji Vurmo, covering the subject of civil society and the achievements and challenges faced in Albania in the last few years. The lectures were attended by 35 students and young professionals mainly form the disciplines of economics, law, and…
Third Sector Foundation of Turkey (TUSEV) launched the Balkan Civil Society Acquis: Strengthening the Potential and Capacity of CSOs for Lobbying and Advocacy Project on March 29, 2013. TUSEV’s Secretary General Tevfik Başak Ersen presented the BCSDN project and the matrix in the launch meeting. Forty participants from CSOs, public institutions and academics participated in the meeting to discuss the findings of TUSEV’s Civil Society Monitoring Report 2012 and learn about the priorities and implementation of the Monitoring Matrix on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Monitoring. Participants from CSOs showed great interest in the matrix and argued that it will…
The Macedonian Center for International Cooperation and BCSDN held the kick-off event for their joint project “Balkan Civil Society Acquis: Strengthening the potential and capacity of civil society organizations for advocacy and lobbying ” on the 4th of April, 2013. The project is supported by the European Union. Around 25 representatives of civil society organizations, government officials, and representatives from foreign and international organizations were introduced to the content of the project and the basic characteristics of the matrix. The Matrix, which is a tool for monitoring to be used by CSOs, contains 3 areas, eight sub-areas and 151 indicators.…
The Macedonian Center for International Cooperation and BCSDN held the kick-off event for their joint project “Balkan Civil Society Acquis: Strengthening the potential and capacity of civil society organizations for advocacy and lobbying ” on the 4th of April, 2013. The project is supported by the European Union. Around 25 representatives of civil society organizations, government officials, and representatives from foreign and international organizations were introduced to the content of the project and the basic characteristics of the matrix. The Matrix, which is a tool for monitoring to be used by CSOs, contains 3 areas, eight sub-areas and 151 indicators. It…
The Institute for Democracy and Mediation in partnership with Agritra Vizion held a training event entitled “Branding Product and Regional Branding” in Peshkopi on 04-05 April 2013. The event was held withtin the framework of their project “Branding: Paving the Path for Promoting and Protecting Local Products in the Cross-Border Region”. This was the second training event in a series of events aimed at building the capacity of the administration of the local and regional institutions in Dibra, local and regional producers, representatives of the National Authority of Food, Regional Directorate of Agriculture, specialists of rural extension, and civil society…
On the 4th of April 2013 Association VESTA announced a call for experts as a kick-off to the third phase of their project “Citizens for Europe” which is supported by the Special Representative of the European Union, HE Peter Sorensen, and is funded by the Kingdom of Sweden and SIDA. The third phase of the project seeks to initiate an active dialogue with decision makers regarding the progression of Bosnia-Herzegovina towards EU accession. It also aims at drawing the public’s attention to the serious consequences of falling behind. All experts in the fields of Rural Development and Agriculture, Labour and…
Croatia will become in July a full member of the EU, and Croatian citizens will on the 14 of April 2013 be able to directly choose members of the European Parliament. The elected representatives will, regardless of the political affiliation, have a great responsibility to communicate regularly with citizens on its activities and the results achieved, because the European Parliament is central representative body of the European Union. This is the debate that will be the topic of the next Cenzura Plus event is Zagreb. Given the lack of information and public discussion on the role of the European Parliament,…