News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Target group: CSOs Countries: International Short Description: The tool assists CSOs and movements in their journey to become more inclusive, diverse and sensitive to the needs, identities and backgrounds of their people. Link to the original call (Global Standard)
Read more →Target group: Young activists and CSO leaders, ages 21-28 Countries: International Short Description: The Community Engagement Exchange Program is a year-long program designed to enable civil society leaders, ages 21-28, to harness the power of networks, relationships, and information for the public good, specifically on issues related to civic dialogue and peacebuilding, open and participatory
Read more →Target groups: CSOs Countries: Europe Short Description: Research conducted jointly by Civil Society Europe, European Civic Forum, European Center for Not-for-Profit Law, and Institute for Public Affairs,to understand the challenges CSOs in Europe have faced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, how these obstacles have influenced CSO’s operation and what are the policy options
Read more →Target groups: N/A Countries: International Short Description: Initiative that celebrates women in the social enterprise sector, spotlighting their impact journey and achievements, connecting them to learn from and inspire each other. Selected candidates will be featured in the Top 100 Women in Social Enterprise book. Date: 8 March 2022 Link to the original call (EUCLID
Read more →Target group: Journalists, Reporters and Media workers, Writers Countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia Short description: Two-day online training course on practicing gender-responsive reporting on human trafficking and violence against women, examining worrying and increasing trends in gender-based violence, both in the offline and online sphere in the Balkan region,
Read more →Target groups: CSO leaders, aged 21-28 Countries: International Short Description: A year-long program designed to equip civil society leaders with the expertise, skills, and resources to develop multisector approaches and build healthy and engaged communities. The program is composed of a three-month practicum in the US, academy on leadership and civic engagement, and implementation of
Read more →Target groups: Young people, aged 15-29 Countries: International/Europe Short Description: 30 participants will take part in four online workshops of collective intelligence and, with the guide of a coach in Design thinking methodology, will prototype and pitch to a jury concrete and applicable solution that meets the needs of the beneficiarie. Date: 7-10 December Link
Read more →Target groups: Small CSO representative; Grassroot Organizations representatives Short Description: The goal of this program is to support the organizational development of grassroots organizations and will include a set of trainings in order to strengthen their social impact in the community. Program participants will have the opportunity, through theoretical and practical work, to improve their
Read more →Target groups: CSO representatives Short Description: For the first time the deliberative democracy exercise will be carried out in Albania, thanks to this collaborative effort of the Institute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM) in consultation with the Stanford Center for Deliberative Democracy, in the framework of PACEP project, financially supported by the Swiss Agency for
Read more →Target groups: CSO representative; State institutions representatives Short Description: Aiming to discuss and share successful practices of cooperation between civil society and state institutions at the national level in the context of re-use of confiscated assets for purposes of social causes, the EU TACSO 3 project will organise a regional P2P exchange with examples from Balkans
Read more →In an era of shrinking civic space, CSOs need to build coalitions with other stakeholders to ensure broader support for what they aim to achieve and to promote civic space effectively. Partnering up with other stakeholders beyond our usual suspects, such as trade unions, religious communities, informal activists and groups, and businesses, seems more important
Read more →Target groups: N/A Short Description: The 2021 OGP Academy: The Case for Open Government is a virtual academic conference on open government co-hosted by the Open Government Partnership and the Korean Development Institute School of Public Policy and Management. The goal of the 2021 OGP Academy is to engage academics and experts to share
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