”The State of Civil Society in the EU Enlargement: Why Don’t We Always Get What We Want?”, conference that took place on the 26th of April in Split, Croatia was an opportunity for regional CSO representatives to discuss and share experiences from the EU accession and the opportunities and challenges ahead in this process. The conclusions that came out of it tackled different topics related to the EU but also to civil society and their work and expectations. The main conclusions were related to the citizen dimension- civic participation and engagement is essential for development, it is only through involvement…
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On 27th April, the network gathered for its Annual Council meeting in Split, Croatia. The 11 attending representatives reviewed the work of the network in previous year and approved the independent auditor for the period 2012-2014. The highlight was the discussion and adoption of the Mid-term Strategy Plan 2012-2014, which was based on a year-long process or discussion and preparation. After more than a decade of capacity-building and advocacy work, the Mid-term Strategy Plan includes re-defined mission, and 4 mid-term goals. BCSDN mission is to empower civil society and influence European and national policies towards more enabling environment for civil…
The 48th edition of the quarterly newsletter Toward a Sustainable Society, highlighting some of Partners Albania main activities during February – April 2012 has just been published. In this edition you can read about JAMS Foundation’s Fourth Annual Warren Knight Award presented to Partners for Democratic Change, new projects and so on. For more information on our programs please visit the website or you can also join PA on facebook.
Cenzura Plus from Split has been producing a TV show dealing with all issued related to civil society and its work, broadcasted nationally and regionally in Croatia as well as online available for larger public. On the occasion of the conference held in Split “State of Civil Society in the EU Enlargement” organized by Cenzura Plus in partnership with BCSDN a couple of TV shows were produced with different topics and guests from the region. The first show broadcasted is the interview with Miljenko Dereta, member of BCSDN board, available here. The show is part of the project “Together for…
BCSDN is proud to present its Annual Report for 2011 backed up by the independent audit report. The 2011 was a year with increased operation for BCSDN Executive Office which can be seen in the narrative and financial report also reflected in the outcomes of the performed audit. Here you can download the full audit report while the narrative annual report and financial report are available for download here.
Cenzura Plus, in collaboration with BCSDN and the other partners from the project ”Together for Europe” organized a regional conference on ” The State of Civil Society in the EU Enlargement: Why Don’t We Always Get What We Want?” which took place on the 26th of April in Split, Croatia. The conference focused on the state and role of civil society in the process of the EU accession through the experience of the EU Enlargement through the lessons learned from the EU’s 5th Enlargement and from Croatia. Around 80 representatives of CSOs from Croatia and the Western Balkans region attended…
The CONCORD Working Group (WG) on Enlargement, Pre-Accession and Neighborhood issues met on its annual meeting in Brussels on 19th and 20th March. The focus of the meeting was the strategy and the further steps for the continuation of the WG, as TRIALOG has announced that they withdraw from convening the group. All participants declared wanting to proceed with the WG, in the same format (with 3 subgroups with the 3 geographical scopes: East, South and IPA) and count of the assistance from CONCORD, i.e. a convener that would ease the information flow and would be the link with CONCORD…
The Forum of CSOs from the border region of Macedonia and Albania took place on the 23rd and 24th of March 2012 the House of Culture in Debar. 90 civic organizations and local institutions, seven forum discussions, four socio-cultural events were organized in the scope of the cross-border project implemented by MCIC, IDM and Desat. More information in Macedonian and Albanian can be find on MCIC and IDM’s webpage.
On 21st March, the Ministry of Information Society and Administration presented the draft National Action Plan under the Open Government Partnership (OGP) initiative, which it joined in August 2011. The Action Plan is being prepared in the preparation for the global annual meeting taking place in Brazil on 17th-18th April. The meeting, which was opened by Mr. Ivo Ivanovski, Minister for Information Society and Administration, gathered representatives of line ministries, international organization supporting the government (World Bank, UNDP) and civil society. Save of the draft Action Plan, international experts presented OGP experience from other countries. The debate and comments on…
In the latest Civic Initiatives Newsletter you may find out about the recent activities and developments in civil society in Serbia. This editions focuses on: Miljenko Dereta Steps Down From the Position of Civic Initiatives ED, Miljenko Dereta Steps Down From the Position of Civic Initiatives ED, The Presentation of the “Youth and Entrepreneurship” Research, Training Seminars in Leskovac, Priboj and Babušnica , Training Seminar: „SEKO Mechanism and the Use of Pre-accession Funds” held for SEKO Members, Regional Conference: “Partnership for Change: Civil Society and the Governments in the Western Balkans and Turkey”. All these information are available on CI’s…