On the 28th of February, 2014 Partners Albania organized a round table to present its first Country Report aimed at monitoring the enabling environment for civil society in Albania. The Report, prepared within the framework of the BCSDN Monitoring Matrix on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development, presents the findings of the forgoing monitoring of the enabling legal and practical environment for the development of civil society in Albania. The Albanian report is also the first monitoring report to be presented under the Monitoring Matrix framework. Monitoring within this framework is being conducted in eight (8) countries from the Western…
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On 27th February, CRNVO from Montenegro was the first to host the presentation of the monitoring Matrix on enabling environment for CSDev and the BCSDN Mid-term strategy 2012-2014 activities supported under the IPA Balkan Civil Society Acquis project. Present stakeholders included representatives of CSOs, EUD, TACSO LAG, Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs and Employer associations. All were positive of the need and confirmed that presented activities and esp. the monitoring of the enabling environment for CSDev will be useful to address CSDev for Montenegro. The matrix will also be relevant for the new Government strategy for civil society currently…
CPCD will start implementing a Small Grants Program (PMG) in order to build the capacity of civil society organizations and informal groups of citizens and to give the grantees the ability during the implementation of projects to use a mentoring organization, as well as to include a leader who will work continuously to improve the situation in local community. PMG will be realized through the provision of financial support to CSOs and informal groups of citizens for the field of community building initiatives, local advocacy campaigns and Ad Hoc Fund through which it will provide financial support to initiatives/ projects…
BCSDN together with Cenzura Plus- Croatia and European Policy Institute-EPI organized workshop named „Accession to EU: What is the role (if any) for CSOs?” The workshop took place on the 16th January in Skopje. Take a look at Cenzura Plus video report on the workshop. The interviewees are: Tanja Hafner Ademi, executive director BCSDN, Ristevski Malinka Jordanova, Institute for European Policy – Macedonia, Boris Maric, and Center for Civic Education-Montenegro, Polonca Šega The Ministry of Public Administration – Slovenia, Adriana Duta, the Ministry for European Affairs – Romania and Gordana Stojanovic, Regional Development Agency of Slavonia and Baranja – Croatia.
Through a competitive process, “Call for Green Ideas 2013” competition aims that civil society organizations, social enterprises and small business ventures in country to be involved in identification, selection, prioritization and to support innovative green ideas. Criteria for the applying idea are: It’s a green idea in embryonic phase or in the initial phase of implementation; The project idea aims the sustainable development of environment through creation of job opportunities and/or higher income; The project idea is in line with the main activity of the entity which applies; The project idea is less than two years old and has an…
The programme included the following discussions: Contract management; TACSO; People2People (P2P); Main issues for IPA CSOs seen by EC; FPAs: why and what next; Discussion on cross-cutting issues and Presentations of the FPAs in 3 different thematic working groups. One of the main message(s) at the kick off conference was that CSOs need to engage with each other and their authorities and that a good communication is needed both ways. The EC Task managers highlighted this as not just essential to understand what the projects are doing, but also to create additional coalitions, beyond those in the project’s partnership. One…
The EC has designated 2013 as the «European Year of Citizens» to mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the European Union Citizenship under the Maastricht Treaty. Major European civil society organizations and networks have joined their forces and created the EYC2013 Alliance to put forward proposals aimed at placing European citizenship at the heart of the EU political agenda. The European Year of Citizens it’s about engaging citizens on all sorts of topics, from questions regarding free movement and different rights to their expectations from the European Union. There is a real lack of knowledge amongst Europeans about…
BCSDN together with Cenzura Plus- Croatia and European Policy Institute-EPI organized workshop named „Accession to EU: What is the role (if any) for CSOs?” The workshop took place on Wednesday (16th January) in Skopje. With around one hundred participants coming from different CSOs, around 15 speakers and panellist, and excellent media coverage, this workshop provided in deep debate on the Negotiation process of the EU Accession and EU’s Structural Finds as well as concrete recommendations for joint action of CSOs and other relevant stakeholders. In the lights of the EU perspective of the country, there were a fruitful discussion about…
On 14th December, the IPA CSF/TACSO Programming Committee was convoked by the DG Enlargement with the aim to inform European networks and seek their comments on the up-coming plans with regards to IPA CSF activities. On the occasion of the meeting, which was attended by around 10 representatives of European networks, organizations were informed that the P2P instrument has been moved to the CSF unit and new person is handling the programmes 2013 until the P2P is taken over by TACSO in Phase 3. The programme 2013 is still open for suggestions, so organization are invited to give proposal for…
On 14th December, the IPA CSF/TACSO Programming Committee was convoked by the DG Enlargement with the aim to inform European networks and seek their comments on the up-coming plans with regards to IPA CSF activities. On the occasion of the meeting, which was attended by around 10 representatives of European networks, organizations were informed that the P2P instrument has been moved to the CSF unit and new person is handling the programmes 2013 until the P2P is taken over by TACSO in Phase 3. The programme 2013 is still open for suggestions, so organization are invited to give proposal for…