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 focused on discussing the methodology and basic framework of the matrix. Once developed, the matrix will serve as a shadow-monitoring tool for CSOs; monitoring tool for the EC; and self-assessment tool for the Government for regular following of the progress in the area as support and pressure mechanism. More can be found here.
