News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) published the 22nd edition of their Civil Society Organization Sustainability Index (CSOSI) for Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, covering developments in 24 countries in the region during calendar year 2018. BCSDN has partnered with USAID and FHI 360 to produce the CSOSI for Macedonia, examining the
Read more →The report, based on the Global State of Democracy (GSoD) Indices, an index produced by International IDEA aims to inform the global democracy debate with evidence and data and provide a nuanced analysis of how opportunities and challenges to democracy play out in different ways around the world, shaped by regional and country contexts. The
Read more →The CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) and the Task Team on CSO Development Effectiveness and Enabling Environment held a joint session on Inclusive Development Partnerships amid Shrinking Civic Spaces: Can CSOs be both watchdogs and partners of governments? on inclusive development partnerships at the Stockholm Civil Society Days 2019, happening on November 19, 2019.
Read more →The new BiEPAG brief offers recommendations on Overcoming the enlargement deadlock: An action plan for the incoming EU enlargement policy appears to have reached a deadlock. Following years of stagnation and relative neglect, the EU Commission’s attempts in 2018 to reinvigorate the EU’s engagement with the Western Balkans and to provide a credible enlargement perspective
Read more →People and countries across the globe have unequal access to political decision-making, often resulting in discriminatory laws, symbols or policies and shrinking civil society space. Reducing inequalities is a complex issue that demands a systemic that looks beyond traditional development cooperation to address the other EU and Member States’ policies that have a significant impact
Read more →Based on the framework of the Monitoring Matrix for Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development, BCSDN published a Regional Report on the trends in the enabling environment for civil society development in enlargement countries. With updates from the BCSDN members, the report aims to fill the information gap regarding the developments in the civil society
Read more →USAID, FHI 360 and ICNL have published the 2018 edition of the Civil Society Organization Sustainability Index (CSOSI) for Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. The twenty-second edition of the CSO Sustainability Index covers developments in what regards civic space throughout the year 2018 in 24 countries in the region. BCSDN has implemented the Index
Read more →Ahead of Croatia’s presidency of the Council of the European Union, GONG issued recommendations for effective advocacy for the priorities identified by CSOs from Croatia gathered in the informal Network Forum 2020. The EU Council Presidency opens up several opportunities to enhance the dialogue between the Croatian public administration and CSOs on European public policies.
Read more →Due to the fact that the EESC considers it essential to monitor the development of fundamental rights and the rule of law in Europe in a comprehensive way, the FRRL Group decided from the very outset to visit all the EU Member States. Five country visits took place in Romania, Poland, Hungary, Austria and France.
Read more →On 28-29 October in Skopje, Macedonia, BCSDN organized a workshop on the Monitoring Matrix on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development. At the two-day workshop, member organizations from the Western Balkan region and Turkey reflected on the previous experience of implementing the Monitoring Matrix and discussed the next phase of implementation. Participants engaged in discussions
Read more →The 12th edition of the Black Sea NGO Forum took place between the 23rd – 25th of October 2019, in Istanbul, Turkey and was organized by the Romanian NGDO Platform (FOND) in partnership with the Center for International and European Studies (Kadir Has University), with financial support of the European Union. This year’s edition aimed
Read more →CSOs are innovators, testing new approaches to both traditional and emerging problems. One of today’s issues creating an unprecedented challenge to civil society is the rise of populist leaders and their pervasive rhetoric, in different parts of the world. Populists have been adept at winning hearts and minds and creating or mining divisions in society,
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