News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The OECD’s Development Co-operation Report provides a comprehensive overview of global trends in foreign aid and outlines recommendations for donor countries. The report highlights the need for greater transparency, accountability, and collaboration among donors and recipient countries to ensure that aid is effectively utilized and achieves its intended goals. One key recommendation is the importance
Read more →Hundreds of organizations across socio-economic justice and public services sectors, from education and health services, to care, energy, food, housing, water, transportation, and social protection, are coming together to address the harmful effects of commercializing public services, to reclaim democratic public control, and to reimagine a truly equal and human rights oriented economy that works
Read more →The Funding for Real Change website offers a spectrum of practices and resources that vary in flexibility: starting with increasing indirect cost covers to multi-year flexible funding . By acknowledging that no single call to action fits all funders globally, the concept of Funding for Real Change challenges and rethinks the Donor-CSO relations and power
Read more →Claiming that CSOs and social movements at the forefront of fighting the complex problems of our world are unfortunately suffering from inadequate funding and financial instability, an article published by Philea emphasizes the importance of full and fully flexible funding for civil society actors. The research suggests funders often cap their indirect cost coverage rates
Read more →AWID and Mama Cash, in the context of our Count Me In! partnership, have published a new report that catalogs concrete positive practices. The report notes that feminist movements are key drivers of transformative and lasting change, yet they continue to receive just 1% of all gender-focused aid. The case for WHY feminist movements need
Read more →The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has released its first-ever Local Capacity Strengthening (LCS) Policy, which articulates the Agency’s commitment to working collaboratively with local actors to achieve long-term sustainable change through equitable and effective capacity-strengthening activities. The ground-breaking aspect of the LCS Policy is the unifying framework it provides for capacity strengthening throughout
Read more →Localization has been a word to describe that collective process through which a diverse range of stakeholders have a role to play, each in their own way and a policy paper published by the Wings examines philanthropy as an enabling factor for proper implementation of the localization. The policy document advocates that localization is a
Read more →Country Notes are a regularly updated library of resources for making grants in specific countries used by various foundations, nonprofits, governments, and academic institutions in the U.S. and globally. Country Notes provide key information on domestic nonprofit laws and regulations, research and reports, and local contacts to strengthen cross-border philanthropy. Crated by the International Center
Read more →The Forum for Philanthropy was held in Skopje, organized by “Konekt” as part of the USAID Partnerships for Donation Project. Research by the “Konekt” Association notes a positive movement in the trend of donations by companies and citizens, with which North Macedonia this year rose to 25th place compared to 75th in 2013, according to
Read more →While in a global context, the European space for philanthropy may seem relatively stable, the Civil Society actors have learned over the past years that even within Europe and the European Union this cannot be taken for granted. The CSO and donor communities have to work towards defending the philanthropy space in a context of
Read more →Against the backdrop of a dire economic situation, Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF) – an approach by which countries can put together strategies for financing their national ‘sustainable development priorities is now here to “shine a light” on UN’s guidance for integration of the INFF. This paper explores whether, in their current form, INFFs can
Read more →The decision for a compensation fund (“Loss & Damage”) made at the COP`27 in Sharm El Sheik represents a paradigm shift in international climate diplomacy. For the first time, the crisis issue of climate has been recognized as a justice issue at this top international level. By achieving this discursive shift, the Global South and
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