News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The Defenders in Development Campaign brings together human rights defenders and advocates from around the world to ensure that communities and marginalized groups have the information, resources, protection and power to shape, participate in, or oppose development activities, and to hold development actors accountable. Signatories commit to collective action to usher in a fundamentally different
Read more →It has been two full years since the Dynamic Accountability Community of Practice was established. 2021 was a challenging year, but accountability has been in the spotlight for more and more organisations. Throughout the year, learning groups have explored topics such as Feedback, Accountability of Governance bodies/Board members, or Communications and Accountability, among others. While
Read more →Impact measurement for CSOs should be focused on answering a crucial question: Are CSOs making progress towards achieving their missions? How can we demonstrate we have done a good job and have used resources wisely so that the people and communities we work for and with, donors, partners and other stakeholders keep trusting us? In
Read more →Accountable Now held the annual workshop at the end of November 2021. Aiming to provide accessible and applicable resources in accountability, they have made the outcomes and the takeaways from the workshop publicly available. The document recommends appropriate reflections at the individual and the organizational level to ensure challenge and improve systems dynamically to allow
Read more →As a member of CIVICUS, BCSDN participated in a pilot program by CIVICUS DIGNA, which aims to identify how CSOs deliver on their diversity and inclusion (D&I) commitments. While engaging organizations from different regions of the world, the pilot program also involved international teams of consultants to ensure that the D&I audits were conducted with
Read more →The 2021 edition of the Global Accountability Week took place from the 22-24 November, utilizing the voices of many social actors in their goal to inspire accountability in others and to share learned lessons and previous experiences in the area. Within the #GAW2021, BCSDN conducted a workshop exploring the dynamic accountability and familiarized the Regional
Read more →Eleven years after the adoption of the Istanbul Principles – a landmark document that consolidates the principles and values that guide CSO practice all over the world, CPDE has established baseline information to know the current state of their implementation within our platform and to support succeeding platform initiatives, including the development of CSO DE
Read more →Future Vox has published a Guideline for CSOs and civic activists for creating successful activism campaigns, structured into 7 essential steps that guide organizations towards effective communications practices. Read more here. Source: Future Vox
Read more →Forus International, within the Global Accountability Week 2021 published and promoted a new how-to guide for civil society networks that are committed to moving beyond conventional engagement and participation of their members, to using the Constituent Voice method. This guide enables through active involvement of constituents, civil society organizations to strengthen accountability and increase the
Read more →The annual Global Accountability Week, coordinated by CIVICUS/AGNA and the Global Standard for CSO Accountability, which we are part of, this year will be held in three days: November 22, 23 and 24. In the marking of the Global Accountability week we`re inviting you to share content on CSO accountability on social media, and promoting
Read more →The CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness, in partnership with the Reality of Aid Network, has published the CSO Handbook on Private Sector Engagement. With the help of this handbook, it is hoped that CSOs themselves will be able to produce monitoring reports and integrate them within their respective advocacies and, ultimately, help ensure that private
Read more →57 civil society organisations from across Europe sent a letter to the Executive Board of the Conference on the Future of Europe (hereafter: the Conference), expressing strong concerns about the lack of inclusion of marginalised communities in the Conference. On 16th July 2021, the Co-Chairs sent a reply, indicating that they are not planning on
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