News and updates from BCSDN and the region
As a part of Regional Civil Society Development Hub, BCSDN is pleased to announce the Call for Ad- Hoc Grants. Organization from the WB region, struggling with shrinking civic space in their country, facing pressure to the civic space, incidences of hate speech, hostile attacks, or want to react towards the changes of a law
Read more →CRNVO and BCSDN are pleased to present the fifth edition of the 2019 MM Report on Enabling Environment for CSDev for Montenegro. According to the findings, there are still many obstacles in the work of CSOs. There is no Register on CSOs updated regularly; Current fiscal policies provide enough incentives for work of CSOs, individuals
Read more →Prepared within the scope of Monitoring and Enhancing Enabling Environment for Civil Society Project financed by the EU, BCSDN’s member organization from Turkey, TUSEV published the Monitoring Matrix on Enabling Environment for Civil Society 2019. Prepared following the General Monitoring Matrix Methodology, the report presents the state of civil society in terms of Basic Legal
Read more →BCSDN is glad to present the CSOSI 2019 Report for North Macedonia. The report is part of the latest edition of the Civil Society Organization (CSOSI) Sustainability Index for Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. BCSDN has partnered with USAID and FHI 360 to produce the CSOSI for Macedonia 2019, examining the overall sustainability of
Read more →On 23 July 2020, the Civil Society Resource Centre together with its leading implementing partner and BCSDN member –MCIC organized an online event for presenting the findings from the monitoring of the enabling environment for civil society in 2019 in North Macedonia, conducted through the Monitoring Matrix for Civil Society Development. According to the findings
Read more →During the United Nations High-Level Political Forum 2020, the global civil society platform CPDE, warned on being off-track in achieving the SDGs, which are under further threat amid COVID-19, as indicated in its survey on the implementation of the SDGs and the Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs). The HLPF 2020 is the UN’s main platform for
Read more →The advocacy paper published by IDSC shares and supports the position of the European Commission, that CSOs are natural partners to the Parliament, apart from the institutions of the system, emphasizing that both the Parliament and CSOs represent and safeguard the same interests – the interests of the citizens of North Macedonia The paper focuses
Read more →The Administration for the Prevention of Money Laundering of Serbian Ministry of Finance has created a list of media and CSOs, and individuals demanding access to their bank records to determine whether they are connected to money laundering or operations to finance terrorism. The Office for cooperation with Civil Society recalls that the cooperation with
Read more →The report identifies initiatives that governments and civil society need to take to respond to the challenge that COVID 19 causes to the democracies. It notes the threats to democracy that governments are restricting human rights and fundamental freedoms, such as freedom of assembly and movement, under the guise of managing the pandemic. The report
Read more →After two years of consultations on the new Media Law, the Legislative Committee of the Parliament of Montenegro, approved the bill, sending it to the further parliamentary procedure. Meanwhile, proposals for additional changes are permanently catching up from the civil sector, the media, and MPs. The civil sector asked for specification of the protection of
Read more →A group of Serbian CSOs and media filed a complaint with the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection for the incomplete response of the Institute of Public Health of Serbia concerning health data of Serbian citizens. According to the Coalition for Freedom of Access to Information, the public has a right
Read more →ECNL welcomed the adoption of the first-ever General Comment No. 37 on Article 21, ICCPR (Right to Peaceful Assembly). The final text adopted by the Committee took stock of all the detailed analysis that ECNL and other CSOs across the world, and experts provided and facilitated in the last two years. They notably contributed on
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