News and updates from BCSDN and the region
On the occasion of the Global Accountability Week, the CIVICUS AGNA Network launched its Accountability and Transparency Platform. The platform is a multilingual online toolbox gathering practical examples from around the world that showcase accountability and transparency mechanisms created by civil society organizations best suited to their local context. AGNA believes that the accountability of
Read more →Are we representing and amplifying the right voices? Are our programmes and campaigns geographically inclusive? How can we support our vision with actual data in order to make good strategic decisions? These are some of the pressing questions we in civil society today are having to ask – and answer. Accountability and data-driven decision-making have
Read more →A new publication of the Third Sector Impact project, e-book Resilient Organizations in the Third Sector, brings together 15 case studies of third sector organizations (TSOs) – membership associations, social enterprises and other types of hybrids – across Europe. The book analyzes their coping strategies in an increasingly challenging environment structured by austerity, the restructuring
Read more →BCSDN as part of AGNA and the Global Standard for CSO Accountability is launching the Global Accountability Week from 12-16 November, to celebrate and promote civil society accountability by showcasing CSO accountability initiatives from the region and around the world. During the week, AGNA will also be launching the Accountability and Transparency Platform, a multilingual
Read more →This report seeks to correct this oversight and to probe more deeply into the rise of conservative civil society around the world. It does so under the rubric of Carnegie’s Civic Research Network project, an initiative that aims to explore new types of civic activism and examine the extent to which these activists and associations
Read more →This 25th of September marked the 3rd anniversary of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). CONCORD celebrated this anniversary by publishing good practices on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda with examples from across the European Union, where Member States and other stakeholders are pursuing the SDGs’ implementation in new and interesting
Read more →The Resilient Roots initiative has “primary constituent accountability” at the center of the programme. From the initiative’s co-creation phase to the open call for proposals from the wider civil society organisation (CSO) community, this term has been used frequently. Understanding a concept like this outside of the immediate community, where many other similar terms exist,
Read more →Funds for NGOs has published a Guide for CSOs to use for putting in place good governance principles into the structure and functioning according to their needs. Implementing effective governance principles can strengthen the organization’s own internal structure, can be used to avoid any crisis arising out of poor governance, and can serve for establishing
Read more →CSOs tend to pride themselves on having strong internal democratic practices – and many, though not all, indeed have such practices. In fact, for that particular section of civil society such as transnationally operating non-governmental organisations (NGOs) – their organisational cultures are often highly consultative and deliberative. But this raises some key questions: does this
Read more →There are at least 10 million CSOs in the world, each of them with a board composed of individuals doing their best to govern well and wisely. There is no single model of governance to emulate, but are there universal principles and practices that can help boards everywhere perform at the highest level. This new
Read more →CIVICUS as a global alliance of CSOs has its mission to strengthen civil society and mobilize citizens to fight for a more just, inclusive and sustainable world. With the aim to improve and connect, CSOs should continuously ask themselves questions – what tools and strategies will help us to achieve the change necessary to achieve
Read more →There is growing concern that CSOs may be subject to online attacks and campaigns of false information. The latter are often instrumental to obscure the truth and influence public opinion by raising confusion and mistrust towards CSOs. In response to this problematic challenge, InterAction has created a new toolkit aiming to support INGOs and other
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