News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Target groups: CSO leaders, aged 21-28 Countries: International Short Description: A year-long program designed to equip civil society leaders with the expertise, skills, and resources to develop multisector approaches and build healthy and engaged communities. The program is composed of a three-month practicum in the US, academy on leadership and civic engagement, and implementation of
Read more →Target groups: Young people, aged 15-29 Countries: International/Europe Short Description: 30 participants will take part in four online workshops of collective intelligence and, with the guide of a coach in Design thinking methodology, will prototype and pitch to a jury concrete and applicable solution that meets the needs of the beneficiarie. Date: 7-10 December Link
Read more →Target groups: Small CSO representative; Grassroot Organizations representatives Short Description: The goal of this program is to support the organizational development of grassroots organizations and will include a set of trainings in order to strengthen their social impact in the community. Program participants will have the opportunity, through theoretical and practical work, to improve their
Read more →Target groups: CSO representatives Short Description: For the first time the deliberative democracy exercise will be carried out in Albania, thanks to this collaborative effort of the Institute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM) in consultation with the Stanford Center for Deliberative Democracy, in the framework of PACEP project, financially supported by the Swiss Agency for
Read more →Target groups: CSO representative; State institutions representatives Short Description: Aiming to discuss and share successful practices of cooperation between civil society and state institutions at the national level in the context of re-use of confiscated assets for purposes of social causes, the EU TACSO 3 project will organise a regional P2P exchange with examples from Balkans
Read more →In an era of shrinking civic space, CSOs need to build coalitions with other stakeholders to ensure broader support for what they aim to achieve and to promote civic space effectively. Partnering up with other stakeholders beyond our usual suspects, such as trade unions, religious communities, informal activists and groups, and businesses, seems more important
Read more →The annual Global Accountability Week, coordinated by CIVICUS/AGNA and the Global Standard for CSO Accountability, which we are part of, this year will be held in three days: November 22, 23 and 24. In the marking of the Global Accountability week we`re inviting you to share content on CSO accountability on social media, and promoting
Read more →The 8th issue of the Monitoring Matrix on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development Country Report has been published by Macedonian Centre for International Cooperation and Balkan Network for Civil Society Development, within the framework of a series of MM country reports covering six countries in the Western Balkans. Report`s findings suggest negative effect on
Read more →Closely following the development of the IPA III Civil Society Facility 2021-2023 Multi-Beneficiary (Regional), BCSDN in cooperation with several CSOs and networks from the region prepared comments on the Action Document, presenting the views and positions of these organizations regarding the support to civil society in the IPA beneficiary countries. The comments highlight the lack
Read more →BiEPAG has published results of the Public opinion poll in the Western Balkans on EU Integration. The publication provides insight into the mood of citizens of North Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo regarding the naive country’s accession to the EU, the degree of recognition of the benefits of membership, and their
Read more →Within his opening remarks at the event hosted by EESC Diversity group in partnership with Civil Society Europe on the 5th of November, Jean-Marc Roirant, president of Civil Society Europe emphasised that consultation with civil society shall be complementary to representative democracy processes and also to other forms of direct participation. He warned about the
Read more →CSOs play an important role in the EU accession process. They promote the European values before citizens, emphasize the benefits of EU membership and – through cooperation with other CSOs from the EU – assist the EU integration process. CSOs have expertise and knowledge to contribute to all processes under RNM’s EU accession. The EU
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