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Trag Foundation: Solidarity Response to Covid-19 Through an Emergency Support Program

In response to Covid 19, Trag Foundation in 2020, granted 63 organizations with 23,510,992 RSD in Serbia, BiH, and Montenegro, thus fulfilling its operational mission. Grants were delivered to organizations providing care for safe houses and housing programs; workshops; field visits and human packages distributions; institution monitoring and public advocacy; Internet services; information sharing to

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OECD-UNDP Impact Standards for Financing Sustainable Development

The Impact Standards for Financing Sustainable Development (IS-FSD), created by the OECD and UNDP, searches to fill the gap between high-level principles and the impact measurement and management frameworks and tools independently used by the organizations. The Standards provide donors, DFIs, and private investors a practical guide and self-assessment tool to integrate impact management into

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CSOs Open Letter on the Debt Transparency Initiative (DTI) to OECD, G20 and European Commission

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

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Civicus Donor Finder

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

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Failing the Poorest: An Assessment of ODA in 2020

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

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Biases and Discrimination in The Digital Space, and Ideas On How Philanthropy Can Act

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

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Regulation of Philanthropy: Improving The Environment for Fundraising

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:

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Digital Technologies in Fundraising

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

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Giving Balkans: Philanthropy’s Response to COVID-19

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

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CSOs Calling for Higher Levels of ODA During Covid-19 Pandemic

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

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