News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Target group: Professionals with a proven track record in project management, monitoring, and evaluation Countries: Western Balkan countries Short description: Regional Pool of Evaluators will be created from all six countries in the region, like a pool of recognized experts in the topics related to technical evaluation of applications received in response to public calls
Read more →Target group: Young people interested in peace-building, community-building, and re-conciliation Countries: North Macedonia Short description: The topics covered through the training are: violence, understanding conflicts, facing the past, building peace, non-violent action, gender roles, discrimination, as well as identity, and national identity. The program is open and flexible, it is designed to follow the needs,
Read more →Target group: Young journalists, analysts, bloggers, and vloggers from the Western Balkans, with an interest in cooperation, reconciliation, democratization, and geopolitical matters related to their region. Countries: WB Countries Short description: The Training Program Young Reporters in Dialogue offers 12 young participants from the Western Balkans an opportunity to increase their familiarity with contemporary approaches
Read more →On the 28th and 29th of June, BCSDN conducted the regional workshop “Advancing Communication, Advocacy, and Networking Skills” in Struga, realized with the support of Sida. The workshop gathered our members – implementing partners of our Regional CSDev Hub, and representatives from the regional grantees supported through the Hub, as well as our CPDE partners.
Read more →CIVICUS has published the 11th in their annually published series, taking a new, condensed, and more accessible format. In January 2022, CIVICUS launched CIVICUS LENS – a rolling commentary and analysis initiative that covers the key current stories involving and affecting civil society. This report draws from and summarises that analysis, directly informed by the
Read more →Civil society organizations’ rapid mobilizations and recommendations have been and are essential in the context of the multifaceted crises affecting our societies which each time exacerbate the many vulnerabilities people are confronted with, such as the financial crisis in the early 2010s, the COVID-19 pandemic, the humanitarian crisis following the Russian invasion of Ukraine or
Read more →The Institute for Democracy (IDSCS) and the Institute for European Policy (EPI), two eminent members of the think-tank community in North Macedonia, today in the Public Room presented the document The Bulgarian veto of Macedonia’s European integration: what kind of apple can bite Macedonia? The panel discussion was addressed by Katerina Kolozova, Director of the
Read more →The decision by the US Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that established a constitutional right to procure an abortion, has sent the same kind of political shockwaves worldwide. Dragoslava Barzut from the Civic Initiative has publicly addressed the concern that once again women are put in a position
Read more →The CSO sector in Serbia saluted the first final verdict acquitting Srdjan Vukša, an activist accused of violating the Law on Public Assemblies, on the occasion of organizing last year’s protests in Serbia. Namely, the end of 2021 was marked by civil protests, which were attended by tens of thousands of citizens who wanted to
Read more →The Funders Initiative for Civil Society (FICS) has published a Submission it has made, with the Fund for Global Human Rights (FGHR), to the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association concerning civil society organizations (CSOs) increasing difficulty accessing funding and other resources, and how this is a critical driver of
Read more →The Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe (CASE) is approaching lawmakers at the EU and national level with an expert policy brief on the European Commission’s EU anti-SLAPP proposals. The brief highlights the EC initiative’s most ambitious solutions and advice on how to best build on the Commission’s proposals to work towards the strongest possible set
Read more →Within the Mapping Digital Freedom Violations initiative, BIRN has published the most recent regional overview of digital rights and freedoms violations in six countries in Southern and Eastern Europe. For each country’s issues, please check the pages for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, North Macedonia, Romania, and Serbia. Hate speech and discrimination, threatening content, endangering
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