We are proud to present the 8th edition of our Balkan Civic Practices series under the title “Donors’ Strategies and Practices in Civil Society Development in the Balkans. Civil Society Lost in Translation?”. It presents the first ever analysis and overview of major donors supporting civil society in the Balkans. Its aim is to provide strategic insight at the funding trends, area specialization, donor coordination and funding mechanisms used in order to influence both donor-exit strategies and instigate government-led efforts towards sustainable civil society development. The analysis draws 4 major conclusions and implication for the EU as the main donor:…
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Complete donor maps for Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia are now available in our Donor Strategies and Practices database, alongside other useful resources such as the links to all existing general donor databases in the region, other analysis and research on the subject. The maps present a first-ever comprehensive overview per country on the level of funding by donor and priorities per sector of support. The on-line maps are no ordinary database or guide to donors, but rather offer a strategic insight on current funding levels and types of support offered by donors in order to…
We are proud to present the 8th edition of our Balkan Civic Practices series under the title “Donors’ Strategies and Practices in Civil Society Development in the Balkans. Civil Society Lost in Translation?”. It presents the first ever analysis and overview of major donors supporting civil society in the Balkans. Its aim is to provide strategic insight at the funding trends, area specialization, donor coordination and funding mechanisms used in order to influence both donor-exit strategies and instigate government-led efforts towards sustainable civil society development. The analysis draws 4 major conclusions and implication for the EU as the main donor:…
The Macedonian Center for International Cooperation has published the e-newsletter covering January 2012. You can download the 126th publication in Macedonian language here. You can also go through the past activities by downloading all the previous numbers that were published and are available on MCIC website.
Partners Albania has just published the last edition of the quarterly newsletter with the title: Toward a Sustainable Society. The January newsletter covers the activities that marked the end of 2011. For more information please visit PA’ website. You can download the publication here.
On 3rd February, Tanja Hafner Ademi, Executive Director of BCSDN, lead a one-day workshop session for representatives of SEKOs (Sector organization of civil society – Sеktоrskе оrgаnizаciје civilnоg društvа) in Belgrade, Serbia. The aim of the workshop was to present EC’s policy and programmes for civil society in the Enlargement context and assist SEKOs to map their future role (via SWOT and priority needs assessment). One of the main conclusions steaming out of the workshop was that SEKOs, which cover 6 sectors and involve 216 CSOs across Serbia, have enabled further step in cooperation between state institutions and civil society.…
The latest edition of CI’s weekly newsletter presents: Presentation of Bylaw on Transparent Mechanisms for Funding CSOs from the State Budget, “Strengthening of the Civil Society in Serbia” and Consultative Meeting about Draft Law on Adult Education. To find out more news dedicated to civil society in Serbia and to subscribe the newsletter in English click here.
We are pleased to present to you the new issue of our eNewsletter publication. This number is an overview of BCSDN activities in the end of 2011 (November and December) and January 2012. To find out more, you can download the 46th edition here.
The work of the Albanian Parliamentary Committee of European Integration (PCEI) and Committee of National Security (PCNS) in 2011 have been in the focus of an IDM monitoring initiative, aiming to contribute towards greater accountability, transparency and effectiveness of parliamentary scrutiny. The monitoring has analyzed the performance of both parliamentary committees by focusing particularly on the comprehensiveness of parliamentary review, formal procedures, cooperation with the Executive and involvement of civil society and other non-state interest groups in hearings. IDM presented the findings and recommendations of the annual monitoring for both parliamentary committees in a Panel Debate “Challenges to Improve Parliamentary…
Cenzura Plus from Split, in cooperation with the Association for Democratic Society, Zagreb is organizing a public debate on the 17th January 2012. The debate will focus on the European Union, how the accession will affect the rights and obligations of the living standards of Croatian citizens, opportunities and challenges of the future accession, as well as the upcoming referendum . The speakers will include: Ambassador Paul Vandoren, Head of the Delegation of the EU in Croatia, Dr. Neven Simac, president of the Center for European Research and Documentation – Robert Schuman and Ph.D. Dragan Markovina, a professor at the…