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Uncategorized 1 May 2017

CfA: Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program 2017 for Citizens of Serbia (Deadline: 04.06.2017)

The U.S. Embassy in Belgrade is accepting applications from citizens of Serbia for participation in the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program for the academic year 2018-2019. The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program brings accomplished mid-level professionals to the U.S. for 10-months of combined academic (NON-DEGREE) and professional work. The Humphrey Fellowship is granted competitively to

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Uncategorized 1 May 2017

CfP: CEI Cooperation Fund 2017 (Deadline: 13.06.2017)

Public and private institutions registered in a CEI Member State, as well as international and regional organisations, are invited to apply to the CEI Cooperation Fund for innovative actions favouring mobility and networking. Proposals need to focus on capacity building by transferring and sharing know-how, in particular from EU CEI Member States to non-EU CEI

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Uncategorized 1 May 2017

CfP: EIDHR 2016-17 Country-Based Support Schemes – Macedonia (Deadline: 29.05.2017)

The specific objective of this call for proposals is to support CSOs in their actions promoting and defending of human rights (political, civil, economic, social and cultural), as well as in the further democratisation of the society. The present support scheme envisages actions under four thematic priorities: 1) building inclusive democratic society, 2) access to

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Uncategorized 1 May 2017

CfP: CSO Grants for Public Administration Reform – Macedonia (Deadline: 12.05.2017)

This regranting scheme is part of the FOSM project Civic Alliance for Transparency – CSO Watchdog over Public Administration Reforms, aimed towards strengthening of civil society’s influence in the public policies creation process. The regranting scheme will be realized through 2 calls for awarding small grants to civil society organizations in total amount of 100.000

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Uncategorized 1 May 2017

Civil Society Forum of the Western Balkans 2017 in Tirana

On 26-28 April in Tirana, the latest edition of the Civil Society Forum Series of the Western Balkans series took place, bringing together CSOs from Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, and policy makers from the region and EU. The Civil Society Forum Tirana 2017 builds upon the achievements of the Civil

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Uncategorized 1 May 2017

Montenegro: CSOs Demand Withdrawal of Draft Law on NGOs and Law on Games of Chance

On 26 April in Podgorica, a group of 198 CSOs started an initiative calling on the Prime Minister Duško Marković to withdraw the draft Law on NGOs and Law on Games of chance, both currently in parliamentary proceedings, as they are considered to be damaging to the civil sector. The CSO Coalition “Saradnjom do Cilja”

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Uncategorized 1 May 2017

Civil Society across Europe Condemning Hungarian Plans to Brand Foreign-Funded Bodies

CSOs have launched a campaign against the decision by the Hungarian government to crack down on foreign-funded organizations. The legislative proposal that was tabled in the Hungarian parliament on April 7 would force NGOs receiving more than 25.000 USD per year from outside Hungary to register as “civic organizations receiving foreign funds”. According to the

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Uncategorized 1 May 2017

Enabling Environment for Civil Society in Macedonia 2016: Further Increased Gap between Legislation and Practice

According to the recently published Monitoring Matrix Report for Macedonia 2016, Macedonian civil society, despite the challenges of the prolonged and deepened political crisis in 2016, continued to work on a solid legal framework. However, the increased inconsistencies in the implementation of the legal framework resulted in setting back the potential for development and sustainability of

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Uncategorized 1 May 2017

Round 224 million EUR of Public Funds Allocated to Croatian CSOs in 2015

On April 13, the Croatian Government adopted the Report on the Financing of Civil Society Organizations and Programs from Public Sources, prepared by the Office for Cooperation with NGOs. In 2015, a total of 224.396.358 EU have been allocated from all public sources at national and local levels for the programs and projects of CSOs,

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Uncategorized 1 May 2017

UN Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai Launches FOAA Online!

On 28 April, Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai announced the launch of FOAA Online!, a web-based legal research tool billed as the world’s most user-friendly compilation of legal arguments on assembly and association rights. The ready-made legal arguments, which are based on international law, standards and principles, will assist lawyers, activists and judges involved in freedom

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Uncategorized 1 May 2017

Draft Report on NGO Public Funding in EU Undermining the Democratic Checks and Balances?

On 16 March, the CONT committee presented a draft report on budgetary control of financing NGOs from the EU budget. In general, the report calls for a greater accountability of funds granted to CSOs and for a better cohesion between different DGs of the European Commission, which use various evaluation criteria when it comes to grants.

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Uncategorized 1 May 2017

Directory of Donors in BiH (and the Region)

The Directory of Donors in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), developed by the Peacebuilding Networks (Mreže za izgradnju mira), is a guide on sources of funding for CSOs in BiH, but also in the region, i.e. the post-Yugoslav countries. This 11th update of the Directory, published recently, holds information about 574 donors and calls for projects

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