News and updates from BCSDN and the region
ECNL and BCSDN organized a joint webinar to provide an overview of current practices and responses in the Western Balkans, Croatia and Romania, with the underlying question – how can civil society effectively monitor and prepare to request lifting of restrictions during Corona pandemic. Speakers discussed the severe measures that have been taken in the
Read more →In the first of its CSO Accountability in Focus report series, Accountable Now presents four areas in which the civil society sector is advancing accountability. They are: partnerships, the environment, stakeholder engagement and feedback, and complaints. The short reports provide an overview of how its members – international CSOs have been advancing their accountability practices.
Read more →In the publication, a group of leaders of civil society networks and platforms presents their views and opinion, identifying possible directions that CSOs may want to go. The authors indicate the ways CSOs work and organize, the need to be adapted and made more agile to keep their pace with people’s expectations. It is about
Read more →The report presents the contributions received from regional networks, organizations, and individuals from IPA beneficiaries. Some of the main points raised in the civil society consultation are: specific thematic issues need to be added or need to be better reflected in terms of their prioritization and approach; civil society involvement in IPA III is vital
Read more →The paper analyses the philanthropic state of affairs in Albania. It provides the main trends and best practices from other countries, which could serve to a better understanding of the dynamics from the stakeholders’, part of the PO sector. The paper is structured based on the leading indicators composing the philanthropic freedom such as tax
Read more →Under the framework of the EU/CoEjoint programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022”, the CoE is launching a call for proposals to fund specific measures to favor inclusion and combat inequalities of vulnerable groups, and to raise awareness against hate speech, targeting them in the specific context of the spread of the
Read more →The Digital Defenders Partnership (DDP) through its Regional Partnership Funding supports initiatives promoting online freedom and digital protection for human rights defenders, which operate in a single country or region. A wide range of activities can be supported, including: supporting internet access in cases of shutdowns, censorship or infrastructural damage; training or accompaniment on digital
Read more →Institutional grants are intended to support the institutional development and organizational strengthening of individual CSOs. Civica Mobilitas expects institutional grantees to take leadership positions in civil society in the country, to be proactive, to take and lead initiatives for cooperation and unification of other CSOs. The general objective of the call is a robust civil
Read more →Next to its regular support areas, striving to advance innovative ideas addressing shared challenges by high-quality regional cooperation projects, the Visegrad Fund welcomes new collaborations in response to Corona crisis. The call for proposals is looking for creative ideas and solutions in need of project development, exchange of experience, and know-how or a need for
Read more →Peace Nexus launches a call for proposals striving to partner with organizations that contribute to social cohesion in the Western Balkans with organizations operating on the regional level. They are particularly interested in supporting actors that work to increase the quality and intensity of collaboration across ethnic and national lines, thus contributing to regional mobility,
Read more →The objective of the call is to support grassroots organizations and local CSOs in the Western Balkans in their efforts to build and increase community resilience to violent extremism through the creation of local partnerships and joint community-based P/CVE actions with other relevant actors: authorities, FBOs, cultural institutions, youth associations, media, and academia. The overall
Read more →European Civic Forum is looking for stories of activists, associations, movements and groups of citizens who are organizing solidarity and civic contestation, and making policy proposals to ensure rights are at the center of the response amid the COVID-19 crisis in the face of a restricted civic space. They are particularly interested in the transformative
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