News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Within the Make, it Easy project they are implementing, the Association for digital transformation Hub has launched eCrowd.mk – an online service that enables the collection of donations by non-profit legal entities registered under the Law on Citizens’ Associations and Foundations in North Macedonia. The main idea of the service is to improve the culture
Read more →Bulgarian Centre for Not-for-Profit Law (BCNL) has launched the CIVIC ALARM CLOCK – a competition for artists who want to raise the topic of civil liberties and the opportunity to associate, speak freely, protest. Over 733 illustrations, comics, photographs, poems, essays, short stories, journalistic materials, have already been submitted. The collected donations will award 12
Read more →The Civil society in Serbia has informed the domestic and international public that, due to the increasing frequency of human rights violations, CSOs will regularly monitor the election campaign in order to assess whether the upcoming elections are fulfilling the conditions to be called free, fair, and democratic. Three Freedoms platform announced consistent and regular
Read more →International Centre for Not for Profit Law has published a guide aiming to map out the scope of standards that protect the environmental activists’ rights to association, peaceful assembly, expression, and participation in decision-making, the type of restrictions that affect the space for environmental defenders and the mechanisms that they can use to enforce their
Read more →Partners Albania for Change and Development, our member organization from Albania, that has been one of the key actors advocating and leading the process for regulations of the VAT refund for CSOs in the country, has announced that the reimbursement has officially started. Namely, the General Directorate of Taxes has reimbursed four projects that have
Read more →In this handbook, published by the European Youth Forum, CSO representatives can find the keys to engaging in meaningful advocacy action: core concepts to be mastered, practical frameworks to be followed to plan actions, do’s and don’ts to avoid the most common mistakes and inspiring examples from the CSO sector. Read more here. Source: YFJ
Read more →USAID has supported the publication of a guideline manual for organizing virtual and hybrid events, aiming to help a wide range of entities to maintain a presence? and relevance in their field while adapting to the “new normal” brought by the COVID-19 pandemics. The guidelines offer practical tools and useful tips and tricks which will
Read more →The South Eastern Leadership for Development Initiative (SELDI) has published a policy document that estimates the state of civil society cooperation for good governance and explores the mechanism for a more effective mechanism for CSO cooperation in the good governance area. The document notes a key conclusion that funding needs to be complemented by indigenous,
Read more →Following the protest series occurring all over Serbia in December 2021 and Civic Initiatives’ announcement of a fundraising campaign for covering the fines of the citizens charged with misdemeanors, solidarity among community members of the community has proven to be very solid. At this point, Civic Initiates has received enough funding to cover the charges
Read more →A panel discussion titled “Unleashing the potential for change through civic movements and initiatives – What can the latest developments in Serbia tell us” organized by European Fund for the Balkans took place last week in Belgrade. According to the BiEPAG`s brief about civic movements and initiatives in the region, presented on this occasion, local
Read more →New research published by the International Centre for Not-for-profit Law explores the challenges for the non-profit sector, which has also been recognized by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a key global standard setter on AML/CFT issues. The research aims to better understand the driving forces of de-risking. It documents practices in relation to how
Read more →With the raise of the authoritarian regimes and their influences, the smear campaign against CSOs is also marking a raise. Having that and mind, and being guided by the idea of giving a practical mechanism for handling such narratives, Liberties has published a guide for progressive CSOs facing smear campaigns. This guide is meant to
Read more →