On 15th March, Serbian Office for Cooperation with Civil Society in the partnership with BCSDN, Croatian Office for Cooperation with NGOs and TACSO organized a regional conference “Partnership for Change: Civil Society and the Governments in the Western Balkans and Turkey” in Belgrade, Serbia. The conference brought together Government Offices and other Institutions with CSO representatives from the Western Balkan and Turkey in a direct regional level policy dialogue to reflect achievements and define the path for joint platform for developing a coherent and coordinated strategy for the sustainable civil society development in the region. The conference included and interactive…
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On 16th March, our network organized the 1st working group meeting, which gathered 14 experts from the Western Balkans and Turkey (WBT) with the aim to develop a monitoring matrix for enabling environment for civil society development (CSDev). The meeting was the first of series of activities of the 6-month long project “Cross-Sector Regional Partnership for Enabling Legal Environment for CSDev” supported by USAID and ICNL under the Legal Innovation Fund. The project objective is to establish regional Gov2CSO platform for monitoring the progress in creating enabling environment for civil society development (CSDev) in countries of the WBT. The meeting…
Project_factsheet On 16 March 2012, BCSDN organized the 1st Working Group Meeting, which brought together 14 experts from the Western Balkans and Turkey (WBT). The objective of the Meeting was to develop a Monitoring Matrix for Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development (CSDev). The meeting was the first in the series of activities of the 6-month long project “Cross-Sector Regional Partnership for Enabling Legal Environment for CSDev” supported by USAID and ICNL under the Legal Innovation Fund. The project aims to establish regional Gov2CSO platform for monitoring the progress in creating enabling environment for civil society development (CSDev) in countries…
On 15 March in Belgrade, the Serbian Office for Cooperation with Civil Society, in the partnership with BCSDN, the Croatian Office for Cooperation with NGOs and TACSO, organized a regional conference “Partnership for Change: Civil Society and the Governments in the Western Balkans and Turkey”. The conference brought together Government Offices, Institutions and CSO representatives from the Western Balkan and Turkey in a direct regional level policy dialogue to reflect upon the achievements and to define a path for joint platform for developing a coherent and coordinated strategy for the sustainable civil society development in the region. On 15 March…
Today, on 13th March, BCSDN gave its support to a group of 36 CSOs letter-reaction to the changes in the proposed-draft Government Strategy for Cooperation with Civil Society 2012-2017. The Strategy was being prepared with wide inclusion and in broad consultation with civil society since December 2011. However, The latest draft received by CSOs on 27th February on the public discussion held in the National Council of the European Integration, softens the main measures civil society has been advocating for, i.e. obligatory act on transparent state funding, establishment of national fund of institutional support and co-financing of EU projects by…
The monitoring matrix is being developed in the frames of the project “Cross-Sector Regional Partnership for Enabling Legal Environment for Civil Society Development”, with the objective to establish regional Gov2CSO platform for monitoring the progress in creating enabling environment for civil society development (CSDev) in the countries of the Western Balkans and Turkey (WBT). BACKGROUND The first regional meeting of the Governmental offices for cooperation with CSOs (or similar coordinative mechanisms) took place in Skopje, March 2008. The meeting proved to be a valuable experience for the Governmental representatives to exchange practises, but there was no follow-up of the meeting…
TUSEV, had published the 12th edition of their e-newsletter. The newsletter offers several articles related to the Civil Society Law Reform in Turkey, news from the sector in Turkey as well as news form TUSEV’s members. You can read the articles here in English or Turkish.
MCMS and IDM in cooperation with and Ecological Association “Deshat” from Debar on the 23rd and 24th of March will organize a forum of civil society organizations in cross-border regions of Macedonia and Albania. Participants will cover: CSOs and foundations, unions, chambers of commerce, employers’ organizations and religious communities and units of local government and local institutions (agencies, schools, universities, etc…). More information about the Forum can be found here in Macedonian and Albanian. You can also find information about registration on our member’s websites.
The kick off meetings in the framework of the Slovak Balkan Public Policy Fund took place in Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro. On the 29th February, 2nd and the 3rd of March the selected grantees had an opportunity to participate on the trainings organized in each country with the aim to provide a good basis for their projects on advocacy and theories of public policy. The training was open for the researchers that will be writing the policy papers with which they applied as well as to other interested staff from these organizations. To find out whom the grantees are click…
MACEDONIA “From theoretical to real-life industrial pollution control” – Research on the implementation and enforcement of the IPPC Directive in Macedonia and policy paper for improvements-Citizens Association Front 2142 This study will focus on the process of issuing integrated permits for big polluters (A permits), operating plans surrounding permits that were issued and monitoring, in real-terms, the realization of these operating plans. Part of the study will also focus on improving public awareness about issuing and monitoring the use of permits. Opposing Europe! Euro-skepticism in Macedonia: A real risk or a bluff?- LIBERTA Institute This research aims to deconstruct the…