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News and updates from BCSDN and the region

CfP: Framework Partnership Agreements and Associated Operating Grants- Kosovo (Deadline 20 August 2019)

The global objective of the call is to strengthen capacities of CSOs, advancing their role of competent, transparent, accountable civil society actors. The specific objective is to support long-term commitment of civil society actors in giving citizens a voice to influence public sector reforms through evidence based programmes, analysis, monitoring and concrete advocacy initiatives. The

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CfP: Swedish Institute’s Creative Force Programme – MENA countries, Eastern Europe & Turkey (Deadline: 29.06.2019)

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

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CfP: Media Professionalism Programme 2019 – Montenegro (Deadline: 03.09.2019)

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

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CfP: Grants for CSOs within The CriThink Project – Macedonia (Deadline 15.07.2019)

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

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CfP: 2019 CEI Cooperation Fund (Deadline: 24 July 2019)

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

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CfP: Support to CSOs within the Project Gear – Green Economy for Advanced Region (Deadline: 03 July 2019)

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

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CfP: U.S. Mission to North Macedonia seeking Proposals to Develop and Implement a Series of Tabletop Exercises (Deadline: 28 June, 2019) 

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

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CfP: Operating Support to CSOs in the Republic of North Macedonia (Deadline: 19 August, 2019) 

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

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CfP: WeB4YES Project Small Grants Under (Deadline: 05 June, 2019) 

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

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