News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Following November 2020, Peace Direct, Adeso, the Alliance for Peacebuilding and Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security online consultation with 158 activists, decision-makers, academics, journalists, and practitioners across the globe. Participants and guest contributors exchanged insights and local experiences on the current power dynamics and imbalances that exist within the humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding
Read more →Target group: national and local media outlets, and other media actors operating in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia) Aim: To enhance conditions for sustainability of quality reporting and increased audience trust and outreach, notably through piloting and/or developing innovative media products and content formats. Amount: up to
Read more →Target group: CSOs registered and operating in North Macedonia Aim: To strengthen the participatory democracy and the EU integration and approximation process in North Macedonia by empowering civil society to contribute actively to the decision-making and improving the enabling environment for civil society work and freedom of expression. Strengthening the civil society networking for the
Read more →Target group: Local CSO with the exclusion of the type of CSOs noted in the Guidance document published within the Call Aim: Strengthening civil society’s role in drafting and implementing policies affecting the communities and public through the promotion of joint activities with partners, providing financial support for regional/international representation of CSOs. Amount: N/A Duration:
Read more →Target group: CSOs with the possibility for private entities as project partners across Europe Aim: Planning Grants aim to catalyze the development of landscape restoration plans across Europe. Funding could support the work needed to build alliances, establish baselines for biodiversity, prepare landscape restoration plans, and/or draft funding proposals. Amount: up to USD. 100.000 Duration:
Read more →Target group: CSO representatives, private sector representatives, lawmakers, donors Countries: International Short description: During an online event organized by BCSDN, the Albanian Center for Economic Research, European Policy Institute – Skopje (North Macedonia), and Trag Foundation (Serbia) – will present their research findings, methodologies, and recommendations on enhancing CSO-Private Sector cooperation towards promoting civic space.
Read more →Target group: Researchers, scholars, academics Countries: International Short description: The Marshall Memorial Fellowship (MMF) is GMF’s flagship leadership development program. Created in 1982 to introduce a new generation of European leaders to the United States, it now prepares leaders from both sides of the Atlantic for transatlantic relations. Link to more information (GMF)
Read more →Target group: Participants from diverse academic levels and backgrounds, such as students, educators, scientists, journalists, communication practitioners, CSOs and businesses representatives, and public officials Countries: N/A Short description: The curriculum spans different areas: environmental discourse and representations of nature in popular culture, environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG), risk communication, media, and environmental journalism, social
Read more →Target group: Human rights activists working with CSOs Countries: International Short description: The Program is designed for human rights activists working with NGOs on issues including sexual and gender-based violence, minority rights, LGBTQI+ rights, labor rights, indigenous peoples’ rights, migration, health, social exclusion, environmental justice, disability rights, and corporate social accountability. Link to more information
Read more →Following the publication of the annual European Commission Enlargement Package 2022, BCSDN is issuing the 13th background analysis assessing the progress made in the area of civil society development and dialogue with public institutions in Enlargement countries against the BCSDN Monitoring Matrix. The 2022 Enlargement Package comes in the wake of radical geo-political and economic
Read more →Following the European Parliament`s legislative initiative resolution (2020/2026(INL), with recommendations to the Commission to harmonize the status of non-profits throughout the EU and establish a statute for European association, BCSDN publishes an official position, emphasizing the need for the Western Balkans and Turkey as aspiring EU members to have their say in the process. While
Read more →The European Commission has published its working program for the upcoming 2023. The published communique states that following up on the European Parliament resolution under article 225 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the institution will table a legislative initiative on a statute for European cross-border associations, to enable them to
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