The Norwegian Embassy has supported around 80 different projects in 2012. In addition the Norwegian Ministry has supported a number of different projects. On Monday, December 10, the Embassy invited all its grantees from 2012 to the Ambassador’s residence to discuss the cooperation between the Embassy and the grantees, to award the best Norwegian funded projects and to a reception to celebrate the cooperation. The final award was presented by Milica Delevic, Chair of Parliamentary Committee on European Integration, to Ecumenical Humanitarian Organisation from Novi Sad. They were awarded the Making a Difference Award for tangible impact in working with…
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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. Relying on the experience and the expertise of its members who continuously act for citizenship to become a permanent and transversal dimension of European public policies decision-making, implementation and assessment, the EYC2013 Alliance will use this year to promote…
In order the E-mail Alerts to be adapted to the changing environment in the civil society sector and to respond to the needs of CSOs, a new survey was conducted in November 2012. 76.9% of the respondents were CSOs representatives, 7.7% donors, 5.8% state officials and 9.6% individuals interested in the work of BCSDN, development partners, projects, and research organizations. The E-mail Alerts Survey clearly shows the support of the readers to the service. The general conclusion is that the EMA satisfy the expectations, especially in terms of content; the majority of respondents supports the alerts as they are now…
As a key regional actor in civil society development, BCSDN with its members has been involved in the two phases of technical assistance to CSOs offered in the framework of a TACSO project, primarily as a member of the EU Programming Committee or via its members as LAG members or host of TACSO local offices. With a 3rd phase in sight as of August 2013, BCSDN has laid out in its Position how this ultimate phase in which local CSO should take over the responsibility and ownership of TACSO national components and activities, should look like. The specific added-value of…
The Centre for Civic Education (CCE) and the Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association (dvv international) organized a regional workshop on “Lifelong Learning and Civil Society Development,” from 11 to 13 November, which gathered civil society organizations from Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. BCSDN also took part at the conference by providing input for recent developments in the civil society development sphere.The aim of the workshop was to gather representatives of the CSO sector working on education for active citizenship, lifelong learning, and the development of civil society to jointly analyze policy and…
As a key regional actor in civil society development, BCSDN with its members has been involved in the two phases of technical assistance to CSOs offered in the framework of TACSO project, primarily as a member of the EU Programming Committee or via its members as LAG members or host of TACSO local offices. With a 3rd phase in sight as of August 2013, BCSDN has laid out in its Position how this ultimate phase in which local CSO should take over the responsibility and ownership of TACSO national components and activities, should look like. The specific added-value of the…
As a key regional actor in civil society development, BCSDN with its members has been involved in the two phases of technical assistance to CSOs offered in the framework of TACSO project, primarily as a member of the EU Programming Committee or via its members as LAG members or host of TACSO local offices. With a 3rd phase in sight as of August 2013, BCSDN has laid out in its Position how this ultimate phase in which local CSO should take over the responsibility and ownership of TACSO national components and activities, should look like. The specific added-value of the…
In March, our network has started development of the 1st monitoring matrix on enabling environment for civil society development (CSDev) with the aim to provide for CSOs with an effective monitoring and advocacy tool for consolidating the legislative and especially the implementation of the enabling environment to be in place for a vibrant, effective and developed civil society sector. The groundbreaking work has been undertaken by 10 CSO practitioners/experts from the Balkans in partnership and support by European Center for Non-profit Law (ECNL). The development of this monitoring tool has provoked great interest among civil society and stakeholders and before…
On 7th and 8th November, a TACSO-organized regional conference bringing together over 100 representatives of CSOs, public institutions, media and donors from Western Balkan countries and Turkey took place in Skopje to discuss the state of affairs and future commitments to improve Gov2CSO cooperation. The conference was organized around a Keeping the momentum report prepared by European Center for Non-profit Law (ECNL). Several representatives of BCSDN members and Executive office have attended the conference and presented the monitoring matrix on enabling environment for CSDev. The main part of the conference was devoted to development of concrete national-level actions for each…
On 19th October in Skopje, the last in a series of expert meetings took place, this time focusing on refining the indicators and cross-checking the matrix as to prepare it for the public consultation before being published and applied in 2013.