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News and updates from BCSDN and the region

CfP: European Commission Global Europe Thematic Programme on Human Rights and Democracy (Deadline: 27 March)

Target group: Registered CSOs operating in Europe. Aim: to fight impunity by building the knowledge base for accountability, and developing comprehensive strategies and tools to address knowledge, capacity, and commitment gaps. Amount: EUR 20,000,000.00 Duration: N/A – This call for proposals is launched with a suspensive clause subject to the availability of the funding in

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CfP: UNESCO – Open Call for Proposals – CC4WBs (Deadline: 31 March)

Target group: Public Institutions (culture-related field of activity) and CSOs from WB Aim: The joint project ‘Culture and Creativity for the Western Balkans’ (CC4WBs) aim at a broad participatory approach across all categories of sectoral stakeholders. This systemic and people-centred approach to development is intended to deeply embed progress across the sector while ensuring ownership

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CfP: (North Macedonia) Grant Assistance for Grass Roots and Human Security Projects (Deadline: N/A)

Target group: International or local CSOs, community-based organizations, local authorities, health institutions, primary and vocational training schools, and other not-for-profit organizations from North Macedonia Aim: To provides non-refundable financial assistance to NGOs, hospitals, primary schools, and other non-profit association to help implement their development projects. The availability of GGP funding in each eligible country provides

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CfP: Grants to Strengthening the role of Civil Society in Digital Multilateral and Multistakeholder Models (Deadline: 14 February)

Target group: Registered, nonprofit, CSOs from Europe Aim: To promote EU values-based human-centric digital transformation through the multilateral system, whilst supporting the EU’s vision of multi-stakeholders as a model to help shape the global narrative. Amount: total budget of the call is EUR 7.500.000 Duration: N/A Link to the original call (Funds for NGOs)

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CfP: (North Macedonia) Grant Assistance for Grass Roots and Human Security Projects (Deadline: N/A)

Target group: International or local CSOs, community-based organizations, local authorities, health institutions, primary and vocational training schools, and other not-for-profit organizations from North Macedonia Aim: To provide non-refundable financial assistance to NGOs, hospitals, primary schools, and other non-profit association to help implement their development projects. The availability of GGP funding in each eligible country provides

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CfP: SMART Balkans Call for Applications (Deadline: 15 February)

Target group: CSOs, activists, and media representatives from WB6 countries Aim: to contribute to the strengthening of participatory democracies and Euro-Atlantic integration in the Western Balkans through the empowerment of CSOs for a stronger and more active role in creating peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North

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CfP: (Albania) TWIST – Towards a New Social Entrepreneurship Model (Deadline: 24 February)

Target group: CSOs registered and operating in Albania Aim: to contribute to strengthening the effectiveness of social entrepreneurship as a potential practice for increasing the social reuse of confiscated assets from organized crime and as an effective model of inclusive economy/ social business to provide services, skills, employment, and support to vulnerable groups, such as

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CfP: EC Strengthening Global CSO Umbrella Organisations (Deadline: 27 February)

Target group: Registered, membership based, non-profit CSOs worldwide. Aim: to strengthen a limited number of representatives, membership-based, and actor-based global Civil Society umbrella organizations as leaders and coordinators of a wider group of like-minded CSOs, through Framework Partnership Agreements, in order to maximize the effectiveness of their work as independent actors of good governance and

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CfP: Gender and Youth Activity Small Grant Program (Deadline: 16 January)

Target group: CSOs, non-profits, and higher education institutions worldwide Aim: to strengthen innovative localized approaches to gender and/or youth, led by local partners; to collect, analyze, and use the information on gender and/or youth issues or strategies; to transform negative gender norms, taboos, attitudes, and behaviors, and/or projects that incorporate positive youth development approaches Amount:

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CfP: USAID Balkan Media Assistance Program (Deadline: 20 January)

Target group: registered media organizations, media industry associations, and CSOs based in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia Aim: To upgrade the legal and operating environment for independent media, including issues of safety and security and media freedom; To to raise awareness and provide direct responses to threats to media safety and

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CfP: SMART Balkans Call for Applications (Deadline: 15 February)

Target group: CSOs, activists, and media representatives from WB6 countries Aim: to contribute to the strengthening of participatory democracies and Euro-Atlantic integration in the Western Balkans through the empowerment of CSOs for a stronger and more active role in creating peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North

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CfP: (Albania) TWIST – Towards a New Social Entrepreneurship Model (Deadline: 24 February)

Target group: CSOs registered and operating in Albania Aim: to contribute to strengthening the effectiveness of social entrepreneurship as a potential practice for increasing the social reuse of confiscated assets from organized crime and as an effective model of inclusive economy/ social business to provide services, skills, employment, and support to vulnerable groups, such as

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