News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Natureforpeople is a regional platform on which WWF Adria would like to gather and present regional examples of good practice where organizations succeeded in improving nature status but also helped the local community. At the moment, Nature for people contains examples of nature conservation organizations but would also like to have other regional and national
Read more →This step-by-step guide aims at supporting Red Cross and Red Crescent staff and volunteers to establish and manage a systematic community feedback mechanism using the Ground Truth Solutions’ Constituent VoiceTM methodology. It focuses on migration programmes but can also be adapted and used in other contexts. The guidance provided complements the Red Cross Red Crescent
Read more →Accountable Now is a global platform that supports civil society organisations to be transparent, responsive to stakeholders and focused on delivering impact. Their members are internationally operating CSOs who drive this agenda on accountability and transparency. Representatives of the civil society sector that would like to contribute to the debate on accountability & transparency are
Read more →Quality assurances in the operation of civil society organizations is a requirement by all donors as well as by the very constituents and users of services and activities of the organization. Nevertheless, the introduction of quality management system in performance should be based on the nature and dynamics of the organization’s operation as well as
Read more →Accountability is not a report, but a dynamic relationship with stakeholders to improve the agency and credibility of CSOs. Digital technology helps facilitate this ongoing interaction and adaptive performance. In the digital age, empowered citizens demand an active role in co-shaping CSOs’ work. This is great news! Stakeholders become partners and the set of skills,
Read more →The slew of bad publicity that has affected the sector in the wake of the Oxfam scandal shows little sign of abating. The Times recently ran a story making fresh allegations about staff misconduct in Haiti – the latest in a series of front pages about Oxfam’s historical failures to address sexual harassment and exploitation.
Read more →For most humanitarian workers, the mission to help vulnerable communities in crisis conditions, through relationships built on trust and empowerment, is nothing if not challenging. So, when news headlines scream about aid officials sexually exploiting earthquake victims as headlines that sent shockwaves through the aid world and sparked widespread public outrage did recently, that mission
Read more →This briefing and discussion paper analyzes how governments refer to transparency and accountability to argue for tighter regulation of CSOs. Invoking transparency and accountability, governments around the world typically propose regulation in three areas: transparency of funding, and especially of foreign funding; income and asset declaration of CSO leaders; and democratic accountability and governance. While
Read more →On 8 February, on the 9th Annual Council Meeting extended session, the BCSDN Council adopted our Code of Conduct. The Code has been a result of an active two-year long process of consultation and collaboration among BCSDN Executive Office, members, experts and stakeholders. The BCSDN Code of Conduct is a set of principles and commitments
Read more →For the past 3 years, BCSDN together with 8 other networks from around the world has been developing and implementing the Global Standard for CSO Accountability and promoting dynamic accountability. The Global Standard Project Partners’ meeting in Nairobi from the 12-14 March, served as the last meeting for the first implementation phase where the partners
Read more →The Resilient Roots initiative, coordinated by CIVICUS, in collaboration with Keystone Accountability and Accountable Now, is testing whether organizations who are more accountable and responsive to their roots namely, their primary constituencies are more resilient against external threats. Through this call for proposals, they are looking for partners in a range of countries to design
Read more →The Global Standard is a reference standard that different organizations can use in various forms. Each CSO can decide what aspects of the Global Standard are the most useful to itself and to its members, and at which moment in time. It promotes a dynamic understanding of accountability that puts people in the centre of
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