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News and updates from BCSDN and the region

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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CfP: The EU System for an Enabling Environment for Civil Society (Deadline: 13 March)

Target group: registered, not-for-profit CSOs registered and operating across Europe Aim: The EU System for an Enabling Environment for Civil Society – EU SEE will contribute to the CSO Thematic Programme Priority 1: An inclusive, participatory, empowered, and independent civil society and democratic space in partner countries; and an inclusive and open dialogue with and

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CfP: USAID Balkan Media Assistance Program (Deadline: 20 January 2023)

Target group: registered media organizations, media industry associations and CSOs based in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia Aim: The fund for Joint Advocacy Grants is open for collaborations of two or more media organizations, media industry associations and CSOs eager to create joint initiative and come up with advocacy ideas. The

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CfP: ECStrengthening Global CSO Umbrella Organisations (Deadline: 27 February)

Target group: Registered, membership-based, non-profit CSOs Aim: to strengthen a limited number of representative, 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 development in

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