News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) is seeking applications from CSOs working on the front lines of the COVID-19 response and recovery to address and respond to the growing reports of the rise of violence against women and girls (VAWG) in the context of the pandemic. The UN Trust
Read more →The global objective of the call for proposals is to support and empower civil society in protecting and promoting democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms worldwide. In order to invite pilot actions in different parts of the world, the call provides four geographical lots: Lot 1 –Africa, Lot 2 –Asia and the Pacific, Lot 3
Read more →The European Union is planning between 2020 and 2024 to complete the Action for EU Support to Social Inclusion, which will focus on increasing coverage, inclusiveness, and effectiveness of social care services, the provision of inclusive education, and employment opportunities. The action supports populations at risk of poverty and social exclusion – including youth, men
Read more →CEI announces a Call for Proposals for the CEI Know‐how Exchange Programme (KEP) with funding made available by the CEI Fund at the EBRD, financed by the Italian Government. KEP is an instrument supporting projects and programs focused on transferring know-how and best practices from EU to non-EU CEI Member States. By co‐financing capacity building
Read more →The UN Democracy Fund welcomes CSOs to apply for project funding within 1 November 2020 and 1 December 2020. It supports projects that empower civil society, promote human rights, and encourage all groups’ participation in democratic processes. Most UNDEF funding goes to local CSOs. UNDEF supports project proposals embracing one or more of eight thematic
Read more →The international conference in Tivat, Montenegro, organized by the Faculty of Political Science, University of Montenegro, Institute for sociological research, University of Belgrade, and Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade aims to support academic researchers and policymakers to use European Social Survey data and other longitudinal comparative data collection studies. The forum will provide a framework
Read more →EU TACSO 3 provides a learning and development opportunity to CSOs from the Western Balkans and Turkey (WBT) through its Strategic Mentoring Programme. The Programme is a part of the EU TACSO 3 Capacity Development and People to People (P2P) Programme. It enables interested and qualified organizations to get in-depth mentoring support to improve their
Read more →The Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE) is the European Centre for Minority’s flagship journal (ECMI), which explores to publish critical analyses of developments and policies in European institutions and their member states, their relations with the European neighborhood broadly understood and other immediate neighbors. It also welcomes contributions on non-European perspectives
Read more →The CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) is coordinating a global activity in evidencing Effectiveness in COVID-19 Response aimed to capture the application of effective development cooperation (EDC) principles in national and sectoral strategies and policies for COVID-19 response. As part of this global effort, country case studies have been conducted all across the world,
Read more →BCSDN gladly announces that Biljana Spasovska has been appointed as the new BCSDN Executive Director. Biljana has been with BCSDN since 2013, performing the role of BCSDN Policy and Advocacy Officer. She has assumed the role of BCSDN Executive Director as of 1 September 2020 when Ilina Neshikj, officially ended her term and her 10
Read more →With its BCSDN members implementing the Monitoring Matrix on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development, on 21-22 September 2020, BCSDN EO held the MM Workshop on the Zoom platform. The participants decided a part of the MM instruments to be further improved, reaffirmed, and adopted to the ongoing situation, correlated with the COVID 19 circumstances.
Read more →The report Assessment on the State of the Enabling Environment and Capacities of Civil Society against the Guidelines for EU support to Civil Society in Enlargement Region, 2014-2020 for the period 2018-2019, prepared by a consortia of researchers led by BCSDN, was published by EU TACSO 3. The report presents key findings, conclusions, and recommendations regarding three
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