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CfA: Summer School “#FreeMedia4WesternBalkans” – 22–28 September 2019, Split (Deadline: 25 July 2019)

The Summer School will be organized within the framework of the project FreeMedia4WesternBalkans: Promoting Legal Education in the field of Media law, Democratization and the EU accession process of the SEELS network faculties and the Europa-Institut of Saarland University (Germany), financially supported by DAAD and Federal Foreign Office of Germany. The project fosters media freedom

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CfP: Support to CSOs within the Project Gear – Green Economy for Advanced Region (Deadline: 03 July 2019)

The project aims to increase the activities and impact of CSOs from Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, B&H and Macedonia in the environmental protection through networking strengthening their capacities and promoting green economy. The main activities of the project include trainings for representatives of CSOs on green economy, public advocacy and lobbying, participation in decision making, monitoring

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CfA: Training for the World’s Humanitarian Community (Deadline: Ongoing)

The Building a Better Response Platform provides free online training and in-person workshops, aimed to strengthen the capacity of NGO staff, as well as other humanitarian actors, to engage in humanitarian coordination and improve response to the needs of crisis-affected populations. The aim of these workshops is to provide participants with an in-depth understanding of

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CfP: Support National or Transnational Projects on Non-discrimination and Roma Integration (Deadline: 09.10.2018)

The European Commission’s Rights has launched a Call for Proposals within its Equality and Citizenship Programme open to applicants from EU Member States and Serbia. The programme is for actions aimed to support fighting against discrimination based on sexual orientation, promoting diversity management in the public and private sector, fight against various forms of discrimination

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CfP: Australian Embassy in Belgrade: Direct Aid Program (Deadline: 30.09.2018)

The Australian embassy in Serbia welcomes project proposals from CSOs from Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro for its Direct Aid Program to support projects addressing the following priorities: Promoting human rights, freedom of expression and good governance; Promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment as a driver for economic growth and Fostering inclusiveness for people with disabilities.

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CfP: Democracy and Media Foundation (Deadline: 30.09.2018)

The Democracy and Media Foundation is seeking applications for its grant program to counter all forms of totalitarianism in social and political life and to strive for a vigorous democracy and multifaceted, opinionating media. The foundation prioritizes projects and organizations with clear benefit in the Netherlands, and to organizations located in the 47 member states

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Thematic Programmes in the Future EU External Instrument

CONCORD has just published a policy paper evaluating the thematic programmes of the external instrument and proposing alternatives. The document explains why the current proposed amount of 7 billion EUR for thematic lines under the Neighborhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) is insufficient to allow the EU to be able to live up to

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#ShiftThePower: How are We Doing?

It was around the middle of 2016 when the Global Fund for Community Foundations, started to use the hash-tag #ShiftThePower. These are increasingly challenging times for civil society globally with many of the rules of recent decades fast being re-written. Traditional flows of aid are changing and new actors – from China’s emergence as a

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Resilient Roots: Debunking the Myths around Primary Constituent Accountability

The Resilient Roots initiative has “primary constituent accountability” at the center of the programme. From the initiative’s co-creation phase to the open call for proposals from the wider civil society organisation (CSO) community, this term has been used frequently. Understanding a concept like this outside of the immediate community, where many other similar terms exist,

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How to Establish Effective Governance in Your CSO

Funds for NGOs has published a Guide for CSOs to use for putting in place good governance principles into the structure and functioning according to their needs. Implementing effective governance principles can strengthen the organization’s own internal structure, can be used to avoid any crisis arising out of poor governance, and can serve for establishing

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Philanthropy Council Established in Serbia

A Philanthropy Council was established in Serbia in order to create an enabling environment for providing charity and further development of philanthropic infrastructure and culture of giving for the common good in the Republic of Serbia, taking into account the current situation and trends in giving in the society. The council was formed on the

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