News and updates from BCSDN and the region
62 CSOs and global networks have distributed an open letter expressing their concerns on the design, consultations, and establishment of the inadequate OECD Debt Transparency Initiative (DTI). The DTI was first announced by the G20 in 2020 to improve transparency in low-income countries, designed around the Institute of International Finance (IIF) Voluntary Principles on Debt
Read more →CIVICUS designed the Donor Funder, a directory of donors to help CSOs, movements, groups, and individual activists worldwide, particularly those in the global south, to find better resources and sustain their work challenged with problems among which access to information on proper donors and funding opportunities. The directory includes simple but complete profiles organized by
Read more →At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, members of the OECD and Development Assistance Committee (DAC) committed to protecting Official Development Assistance (ODA) budgets. While ODA levels went up, the challenge of fulfilling the channeling 0.7 percent of gross national income (GNI) to the countries most in need and the commitments made on the quality
Read more →The findings of the public opinion survey about Philanthropy in Serbia in 2020, published by the Trag Foundation, present that citizens are willing to donate more for the common good and volunteer. The strongest motivation for Serbian citizens to participate in charitable campaigns is the feeling that they are helping to solve problems with their
Read more →Discrimination dawns in cultural, social, economic, and technological forms. Technological discrimination entails how technology treats groups of people as amorphous and cannot distinguish between individuals because of the lack of data to perform it. The effects vary from incorrect suspect identification leading to wrongful arrest through constant prejudice in the workplace to embedding a cycle
Read more →ECNL Fundraising Principles provide a global overview of current trends in fundraising regulation and self-regulation. The principles propose recommendations based on international and regional standards and country practices, aiming to support advocacy efforts and serve as a reference point to promote and facilitate further dialogue between CSOs and policymakers. The overview addresses 7 key areas:
Read more →In its publication, ECNL explains that the digital revolution and artificial intelligence (AI) provide new horizons for philanthropy. Digital technologies are used throughout fundraising, starting from promoting the beneficiary organization or cause, identifying the target groups, storing their data, reaching out to them, and processing the donation. AI -intended as machine-learning algorithms -and automated decision-making
Read more →Since the start of the pandemic, fundraisers worldwide have had to rethink their strategies, budgets, and models. The organizations, on the other hand, adjusted to the crisis in different ways. Some have used cash reserves; a part dismissed team members; others changed budgets into online channels. Besides the fact that the covid-19 crisis is a
Read more →Catalyst Balkans delivered infographics, presenting data for helping prevent the consequences from COVID-19, as well as people’s reactions in the past 12 months. In terms of the value of donations, from the beginning of the crisis to 31 March 2021, Catalyst processed data on 5,832 philanthropic instances in the Western Balkans and registered the total amount of
Read more →Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced that over the course of 2020 DAC donors allocated 161.2 billion USD of official development assistance (ODA), more commonly known as ‘development aid’. Despite the long-standing commitment to contribute 0.7% of gross national income towards ODA, the 2020 figures show that only 32 cents for every 100
Read more →The World Bank supports the call for people’s free vaccines and transparency in countries’ decisions regarding COVID-19 vaccinations to reduce information barriers and permit scrutiny and monitoring. However, the importance of respecting governments’ decisions on how to implement their vaccination campaigns in the best way should not be undermined. At the recent civil society event
Read more →Almost a year after the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic, the world is still striving to recover and operating in the “new normal.” In 2020, funders responded quickly, directing emergency funds to organizations on the ground and committing to changes in their grantmaking practices and priorities to assist nonprofits in
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