BCSDN at Global People’s Assembly of the UN SDG Summit 2024
World leaders from across the globe recently gathered at the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit, a crucial milestone in the pursuit of the…
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News and updates from BCSDN and the region
GAW 2022: Regional Workshop “Donors & CSOs: together towards a more Accountable Civil Society in the Western Balkans”
The Balkan Civil Society Development Network (BCSDN) cordially invites you to the “Donors & CSOs: together towards a more Accountable Civil Society in the Western…
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Worlds’ Major Development Aid Agencies Getting More Transparent, Still Space for Improvement
Publish What You Fund has recently published the 2018 Aid Transparency Index. The Aid Transparency Index is the only independent measure of aid transparency among the…
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Challenges for Western Balkan CSOs to Get Involved in Global Development Discussed in Bratislava
The international conference “Development and Democracy”, held on October 27th in Bratislava, is a regular leading event on development cooperation in the region. It creates…
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2016 Aid Transparency Index is Out: DG NEAR is the Top Ranking EC Directorate-General
The 2016 analysis from Publish What You Fund indicates that 25% of global aid now meets transparency standards. Despite the progress over the last five…
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Where is the EU on the Road to 2015? – DG NEAR On Track in Latest Aid Transparency Index
Lack of transparency by major European donors is hindering development outcomes in some of the poorest countries in the world, according to Publish What You…
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New Report: Donors Supporting Civil Society Need to Re-think Their Approach
BCSDN together with its regional members, CPCD and MCIC, organized two presentations of the new report “Donor Strategies and Practices in Supporting Civil Society in…
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Aid Transparency Index (ATI) 2014 Published
Despite making several international transparency commitments, the vast majority of Europe’s aid donors are still not sharing enough data about their development activities. The Aid…
Read more →2013 Aid Transparency Index – DG Enlargement Considerably Improves its Ranking by Starting to Publish to IATI
On 24 October, 2013 Publish What You Fund, the global campaign for aid transparency, advocating for a significant increase in the availability and accessibility of…
Read more →Brainstorming with the EC on IPA CSF Support: Converging Views
On a workshop organized at the EESC in Brussels last Wednesday (25th September), BCSDN with its members and partners discussed concerns with the DG Enlargement.…
Read more →Policy Workshop on Aid Modalities for Civil Society Support Under IPA 2014-2020, Brussels – 25.09.2013
BCSDN is organizing a workshop on aid modalities for civil society support under IPA 2013-2020 to be held in Brussels on the 25th of September,…
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First Glipms of the Donor Maps in Civil Society Development Support in the Balkans
BCSDN is proud to present the donor maps developed as part of a research on the donors strategies and practices in civil society development (CSDev) conducted in 2011. This research…
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