News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Target groups: Human rights institutions, defenders and practitioners, as well as a wide range of partners and social actors, with a particular focus on youth and young people across Europe. Short Description: The Fundamental Rights Forum aims to certify how human rights matter and rebuild trust, showing that Europe cares for its people, while securing
Read more →In light of the consultations on the IPA III Civil Society Facility 2021-2023 Multi-Beneficiary (Regional), BCSDN has prepared comments on the Action Document, based on the positions of the network also presented in the BCSDN Opinion on the IPA III. Along with the lack of consultations on a national and regional level and limited access
Read more →On 2-3 September 2021, The Balkan Network for Local Democracy (BNLD) is organizing a Regional Best Practice Fair in Skopje, North Macedonia. The hybrid event will gather Western Balkan’s CSOs’ representatives, youth groups, local public authorities, local media outlets, as well as BNLD’s members from the region. The event’s objective is to create an open and
Read more →Mandated by the Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR) to review and provide monitoring under the Guidelines for EU Support to Civil Society in Enlargement Region, EU TACSO 3 project invites civil society, public authorities, donors, and other stakeholders from the Enlargement Region (Western Balkans and Turkey) to take part in the country consultation and validation
Read more →The CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) published the Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFF) overview. INFF provides a country-owned financial framework to strengthen planning processes and support sustainable development financing at the national level. It empowers the national governments to analyze how to finance their plans and establish financing strategies with long-term national priorities. It can
Read more →The Civil Society Convention, led by Civil Society Europe, has allocated 5 seats in the Plenary of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE). Gathering different constituencies, the Convention reflects on social, environmental, and democratic challenges through a public debate. It is shaped within 5 thematic clusters which outputs will be discussed in the
Read more →Catalyst Balkans invites non-profit organizations from the Western Balkans to join Catalyst’s Digital Month, happening from the end of August- October 2021. The Digital month offers seven workshops, including: Community Relationship Management for Nonprofits, Digital Security – Threats and Protection, Remote Project Management and Collaboration, Donor Management and Stewardship, Design Concepts and Tools for Non-profits,
Read more →The report published by the International Press Institute (IPI) and several other organizations points to the media deterioration under the Slovenian Prime Minister during the country’s rotating presidency of the European Union. The report presents the progressive campaign of the ruling Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) to restructure the media landscape, and by the use of “new
Read more →In a special report, Reuters discovers that in some countries worldwide, including Serbia, the authorities’ legislation to satisfy FATF standards was used as a mechanism to investigate journalists, NGOs, and lawyers. In July 2020, Serbia’s financial intelligence unit sent a letter to local banks requesting private data on 50 NGOs and media outlets recognized for
Read more →The report published by the Center for Independent Journalism in Romania discusses the price of journalism and society when lacking credible sources of information. From the silence of the surveyed sources, intimidated to disclose information, to the lack of transparency of the public institutions and politicians attacking journalists for publishing the “inconvenient truth”, the report highlights the challenging
Read more →A report delivered by the Turkish freedom of expression campaign group presents the country’s complex internet censorship mechanism. It explains that Internet and social media censorship has increased over the past 15 years in Turkey, with authorities’ restraints of approximately 60,000 websites throughout the last year. The report asserts that more than 467,000 websites have
Read more →Following the release of worrying video footage from July 2020, the Bulgarian prosecution is investing the political violence during last year’s protest besides denying these cases in the first place. Before its official release on the media and YouTube, the video was presented in the Bulgarian Parliament, and four of the police officers that committed
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