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CfP: Open 4th Call for Regional Projects by Western Balkans Fund (Deadline: 23 December)

Target group: CSOs and grassroot organizations from WB6 countries Aim: To promote participation of CSOs and grassroots organizations, in the Western Balkans, to participate in regional cooperation projects on social, cultural, scientific, and economic topics, including gender equality and disability inclusiveness to enhance good neighborly relations and reconciliation. Grant amount: up to EUR 15.000 Duration:

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CfA: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime: Open Call for Publishers and Volunteers (Deadline: N/A)

Target groups: Publishers and Interested Volunteers Short Description: Over the course of 24 hours (on 10-11 November 2020), 240+ leading organized crime scholars and practitioners from over 45 countries discussed and presented a diverse range of topics, including environmental crime, migrant smuggling, human trafficking, political corruption, the illicit antiquities trade, drug trafficking and the

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BCSDN Analysis of the EC Enlargement Package 2021: Dear EU, Are You Still Committed to Empowering Civil Society?

BCSDN has prepared an analysis of the annual European Commission Enlargement Package for the 12th consecutive time. The analysis, set against the Monitoring Matrix, reflects on EC’ assessment of the progress made in the area of civil society development and dialogue with public institutions in Enlargement countries. This year, the Enlargement package comes at times

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Call for Submission of Good Practices of CSO – Private Sector Cooperation for Promoting Civic Space

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

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BNLD: Comparative Analysis on Citizen Participation in the Western Balkans

The Balkan Network for Local Democracy prepared three comparative studies were done that examine the level of citizen participation in decision-making locally within the WB6, under the work of the project “CSOs Networking for Better Local Democracy in the Balkans, funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) trough the Regional CSDev Hub implemented

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FATF Plenary: Turkey on the “Gray List”, Updated Statement for Albania

At the FATF Plenary, which took place on 19-21 October, over 200 delegates of the Global Network, finalized work in a number of strategic initiatives, and discussed country-specific processes. Of the latter, jurisdictions under increased monitoring are actively working with the FATF to address strategic deficiencies in their regimes to counter money laundering, terrorist financing,

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