News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Civic mobilitas announces a call for small grants The general objective of the goal is The social changes in Macedonia are driven by a strong civil sector, active citizens and good cooperation with the authorities, resulting in more transparent, accountable and socially inclusive governance at the national and local level. Grants of up to 330.000
Read more →Creative Force Programme is a funding programme for international projects, open to Swedish organisations and their partners in their target countries who work through media or the arts to strengthen democracy, human rights and freedom of expression. There are two types of funding: Seed Funding is available for carrying out a small project or for
Read more →The specific objectives of this call for proposals are: To foster independent and investigative journalism in order to obtain quality media production in the areas related to Montenegro’s European integration process, both for national and local media; To strengthen free, fair, professional and ethical journalism in Montenegro, with a special focus on media self-regulation; and To raise awareness about
Read more →Critical Thinking for Mediawise Citizens – CriThink project implemented by the “Metamorphosis” Foundation in partnership with “Eurothink” with the support of the European Union, announces Call for applications in order to provide support for initiatives of local civic organizations in partnership with media and other stakeholders to promote the creation of a culture of critical
Read more →The Central European Initiative (CEI) is seeking proposals from public and private institutions registered in a CEI Member State, as well as international and regional organisations for its 2019 CEI Cooperation Fund for innovative actions favouring mobility and networking. Proposals need to focus on capacity building by transferring and sharing know-how, in particular from EU CEI Member
Read more →USAID’s BMAP goal is to make media in the Western Balkans more competitive in the local and regional marketplaces and strengthen the sustainability of the independent media sector across the region, particularly in the digital space. Individual grants from USD 15.000 to USD 20.000 are available to locally registered media outlets in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Read more →The project aims to increase the activities and impact of CSOs from Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, B&H and Macedonia in the environmental protection through networking strengthening their capacities and promoting green economy. The main activities of the project include trainings for representatives of CSOs on green economy, public advocacy and lobbying, participation in decision making, monitoring
Read more →The U.S. Embassy in Skopje Public Affairs Section invites U.S. and North Macedonia-based non-profit/non-governmental organizations to develop and implement municipal-level tabletop exercises to help build and strengthen municipal response mechanisms to violent extremism and terrorism. The exercises should walk municipal stakeholders in 3 to 6 different cities through fictional case study examples of radicalization. Read more here Source: Funds for NGO
Read more →The specific objective of this call for proposals is to provide support to the functioning of CSOs in Macedonia to implement their core activities against an agreed work programme in a number of pre-defined sectors/priorities for monitoring central and local government policies. Any grant requested under this call must fall between 40.000 EUR and 80.000 EUR, covering 60%-90% of the total
Read more →The Objective of this Call is to improve the effectiveness of CSOs in the Western Balkans in undertaking initiatives for improving youth employment and entrepreneurship policies at the local level. The Call aims to further build capacities of the CSOs and strengthen their involvement in public decision-making and also to design and implement the innovative initiatives related to youth employment, employability and entrepreneurship. The budget
Read more →Transparency Macedonia published a call for applications for actions related to the fight against corruption. The aim of this call is to provide support CSOs in Macedonia that, in cooperation with the media/journalists, will carry out activities related to advocacy for transparent and anti-corruption practices of local and national authorities. Five small grants of up
Read more →Visegrad+ Grants support projects which contribute to the democratization and transformation processes in selected countries and regions, especially non-EU member states in the Western Balkans and the Eastern Partnership countries. Maximum duration of project implementation is 18 months. Grants cover up to 100% of project budget with maximum 15% of the requested sum for overheads.
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