NEW! Balkan Civic Practices Special Edition on Promoting Civic Space
We are proud to present you the special online edition of the Balkan Civic Practices: Promoting Civic Space – the result of months of work, together with…
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News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Window of Opportunity for Enlargement: How much Space for Civil Society?
For the 9th consecutive year, BCSDN has analyzed how the European Commission (EC) has treated the issue of civil society development and assessed the progress…
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What Can We Do to Promote Civic Space: Perspectives from the Western Balkans and Türkiye
The damaging trend of violations to civic space worldwide has not surpassed the Balkan region either. Only in 2016 the space for effective civil society development…
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Monitoring Matrix Regional Report 2016: Violations to Basic Freedoms and Impeded CSO Financial Sustainability
BCSDN has published the fourth Monitoring Matrix Regional Report on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development in Enlargement Countries, presenting the regional state of play of civil…
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2016 CSO Sustainability Index – Macedonia: Major Backsliding Threatening CSO Sustainability
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) presented the 20th edition of their Civil Society Organization (CSO) Sustainability Index for Central and Eastern Europe and…
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Monitoring Matrix on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development – Regional Report for 2015
BCSDN, in partnership with European Center for Non-profit Law (ECNL), has published the third Regional Report on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development in Enlargement Countries, presenting the regional state of play of civil society in 2015 and highlighting the priorities for intervention by national and EU institutions at the regional level towards creating a more enabling environment
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Balkan Civic Practices #12 – Monitoring Matrix on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development – Regional Report for 2014
BCSDN, in partnership with European Center for Non-profit Law (ECNL), has published the second Regional Report on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development in Enlargement Countries, presenting the regional state of play of civil society in 2014 and highlighting the priorities for intervention by national and EU insittutions at the regional level towards creating a more enabling environment
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New Policy brief: Ways of Non-financial Gains for CSOs in the Balkans and Turkey
The brief highlights the brighter side of CSOs state support, namely best practices of non- financial support (NFS) in order to demonstrate that these are possible and desirable for civil society development (CSDev) and sustainability in the Balkan countries and Turkey. The evaluation of NFS was guided by Standard 4: Non-financial support is available from
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What is Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development (BOOKLET)
The enabling environment for civil society is broadly defined as the conditions within which civil society works. Specifically, enabling environment is viewed as the varied array of conditions – economic, political, social, cultural, legal, and otherwise – that affect the capacity of citizens, whether individually or collectively, to voluntarily participate in civil society. The enabling environment
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Balkan Civic Practices #9 – Monitoring Matrix on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development – The Tool Kit
BCSDN members and partners have tested or participated for years in several monitoring methodologies developed to follow the enabling environment for civil society development (CSDev) or its parts. In most cases, these were funding and human intensive, partial (dealt with only one or several sub-areas) and general in their coverage of monitoring of the enabling
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