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CfP: Supporting Advocacy for The Right to Free Assembly in The Balkans and The Eastern Partnership Region (Deadline: 10 April 2020)

ECNL announced a call for proposals to support national advocacy actions on the right to free assembly in Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia, and Ukraine. ECNL is especially interested in proposals that include outreach to a broader range of stakeholders (i.e. judges, members of Parliaments, Ombudsman or

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CfP: Technical Assistance to the Government for Improving Cooperation with Civil Society in Montenegro (Deadline: 20 April 2020)

The main goal of the contract is to support public authorities to improve the quality of their engagement with CSOs in policy-making processes. This will be addressed through the provision of expertise and technical collaborations in order to develop proposals towards the improvement of all legal, strategic and institutional frameworks related to the sector. This

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CfP: UN WOMEN Seeking Proposals to Promote Women Survivors Access to Justice and Specialist Services in Turkey (Deadline: 15 April 2020)

UN Women published a call for proposals to select a responsible party to contribute to the programme Specific Objective 3: To empower women and girls (including those from disadvantaged groups) who have experienced discrimination or violence to advocate for and use available, accessible and quality services and more specifically to Output 3.3: Better access to

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CfP: Civil Society Facility Programme – Supporting Capacity Building and Partnership of Civil Society in Montenegro (Deadline: 18 June 2020)

The global objective of the call for proposals is: to strengthen participatory democracies and the EU integration process in Montenegro by empowering civil society to actively take part in decision making and by stimulating an enabling legal and financial environment for civil society. The specific objective(s) of the call for proposals are: to build the

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CfP: EIDHR Bosnia and Herzegovina – Country Based Support Scheme 2019-2020 (Deadline: 28 April 2020)

The overall objective of the action is to support and strengthen CSOs, democracy activists and human rights defenders working on critical human rights and democracy issues in BiH. The specific objective(s) are to: support human rights defenders and civil society in countering systematic, widespread, and gross human rights violations and attacks against fundamental freedoms; support

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CfA: Young Bled Strategic Forum 2020, 30 August- 1 September, Bled, Slovenia (Deadline: 5 April 2020)

The Bled Strategic Forum international conference, with the Young Bled Strategic Forum as its integral part, strives to carry on its work with youth to ensure its multidimensional and long-lasting inclusion, intergenerational dialogue and a recognition of its needs and aspirations through development programmes and policies, as well as by involving young people in international

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CfA: Transparency International School on Integrity 6-12 July 2020, Vilnus, Lithuania (Deadline: 30 April 2020)

Transparency School is organized for senior students, graduates and young professionals under the age of 35 eagers to learn how to stand up against corruption and how to achieve greater transparency in their country. The seven-day school offers a powerful mixture of an intensive academic schedule, unconference-like atmosphere and continuous peer-to-peer interactions which all together

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CfA: InterActions Professional Exchange (Deadline: 30 April 2020)

InterActions enables professional exchange and cooperation between civic initiatives, independent media, research institutes and social business in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. By participating in InterActions, activists, journalists, social entrepreneurs, public policy experts and researchers can choose for themselves a suitable host organization where they want to be placed. There are 2 tracks in the

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Draft Principles of Good Practice for Deliberative Processes for Public Decision-Making (Have Your Say by: 20 March 2020)

Deliberative processes are one of the most innovative methods of fostering citizen participation in government. The OECD has collected a wealth of evidence as to how deliberative processes work across different countries. The analysis of the evidence collected reveals a number of common principles and good practices that may be of useful guidance to policy-makers

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