News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Democracy is one of the priorities of the EU’s new funding instrument, Global Europe, also known as the Neighbourhood, Development, and International Cooperation Instrument. For the first time, this initiative presents various foreign policy and development tools to allow for more flexible use of the available funds, which total EUR 79.5 billion. As the EU
Read more →“Conducive Environment for Philanthropic Activity in Albania”, published by BCSDN member Partners Albania, presents the legal aspects and regulatory framework concerning the conducive environment of philanthropic activity. The paper is based on the challenges and bottlenecks that companies in Albania face regarding donations. The paper is focused on three issues: the legal framework of philanthropic
Read more →Much of the progress made over recent years towards achieving the 2030 Agenda’s goals and targets, adopted by all countries in 2015, has stalled or been reversed lately, in part due to the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. The policy brief aims to provide an overview of the progress made by the UN Member States
Read more →The European Fundraising Association has recently shared its most recent newsletter, offering a comprehensive overview of all the ongoing and upcoming events and development in the area. It provides its usual round-up of news from across Europe, along with our list of the forthcoming conferences and events for fundraisers, insights from “Making space to learn
Read more →The CIVICUS World Alliance is mobilizing a global community to cultivate trust, new ways of thinking, deeper conversation, and meaningful collaboration between grassroots activists, donors, and allies. Noting five actions that can be immodestly undertaken to help drive this collective revolution, CIVICUS is calling for an overhaul of the relationships and systems between activists, donors,
Read more →The implementation of the 2030 Agenda has fallen massively behind as a result of insufficient development finance. Furthermore, the slowly subsiding COVID-19 crisis had led to a simultaneous collapse of all sources of finance. This year’s UN High-Level Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) have been dedicated to building back better after the crisis. However, the
Read more →In July 2021, governments, businesses, foundations, and CSOs worldwide convened at the Generation Equality Forum (GEF) and committed to change policy, implement programs, invest financial resources, and step-up advocacy for gender equality. A monumental 40 billion USD in funding was committed for these goals. During the forum, the funders must rethink their principles and practices
Read more →Aid organizations have largely maintained their transparency at pre-pandemic levels. The overall picture of the 2022 Index results is broadly similar to the 2020 Index. The average score has dipped slightly (61.8 in 2022, compared with 63.4 in 2020). This year 31 of the 50 organizations we assessed scored in the ‘good’ or ‘very good’
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 while recognizing that there is not one single call to action that fits all funders globally. By recognizing that there is not one single call to action that
Read more →In July 2021, DAC donors unanimously adopted a Recommendation on Enabling Civil Society in Development Co-operation and Humanitarian Assistance, their first-ever international legal policy instrument on enabling civil society. The Recommendation identifies 28 key actions that donor governments should follow to respect, protect, and promote civic space. The DAC CSO Reference Group has established a
Read more →There is an emerging constant in the world of development cooperation: if a crisis emerges, the official development assistance (ODA) is reliably there to soften the impact. In these last few years of crisis after crisis, we have witnessed two distinct phenomena when it comes to ODA budgets – inflation and diversion. The COVID-19 pandemic
Read more →The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing more than USD 225 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Ukraine amid Russia’s unprovoked war that has pushed 12 million people from their homes and triggered staggering humanitarian needs. This additional funding will provide lifesaving humanitarian food assistance to people inside Ukraine.
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