News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The Front Line Defenders are currently accepting nominations for the 2017 Annual Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk. The annual Front Line Defenders Award was established in 2005 to honor the work of a human rights defender who, through non-violent work, is courageously making an outstanding contribution to the promotion and
Read more →The International Visegrad Fund annually provides small grants to organizations around the globe to facilitate and promote the development of closer cooperation among citizens and institutions in the region as well as between the V4 region and other countries. As a rule, the participation of at least three V4 countries (“3xV4 rule”) is required in the proposal,
Read more →The aim of the Strategic Support Grants (SSGs) is to support CSOs, including think tanks, that work in the following priority areas: good governance, public service improvement, rule of law, anti-corruption, human rights, economic growth, business enabling environment, and monitoring and oversight of public institutions. The Project plans to award up to seven grants under
Read more →The United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) supports projects that strengthen the voice of civil society, promote human rights, and encourage the participation of all groups in democratic processes. The large majority of UNDEF funds go to local civil society organizations. This is the Eleventh Round to be launched by UNDEF, which provides grants of up
Read more →The project partners of the Global Standard for CSO Accountability met from the 5th to 8th of December in Uganda to finalize the Standard content and further develop the Guidance document that will support the use of the Standard. A meeting with East African CSOs was also organized at occasion, and it served as a platform
Read more →In Nairobi, Kenya, the second high level meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, a broad-sweeping agenda generated a renewed sense of energy for delivering on commitments. The meeting saw stakeholders from across the development sector — governments, civil society, trade unions, parliamentarians, foundations, business and many more — come together to take stock of
Read more →Тhe largest body of independent experts of the United Nations Human Rights system urges all Governments around the world to stand up for human rights. The so-called populist movements are invoking nationalism and traditionalism to justify racist, xenophobic, sexist, homophobic and other forms of blatant discrimination, taking advantage also of the difficulties of the current
Read more →BCSDNs member, the Centre for Information Service, Co-operation and Development of NGOs (CNVOS) from Slovenia, has recently started a media campaign to encourage Slovenian citizens to donate it 0,5% (#nulapet) of income tax to CSOs. The aim of the campaign is to encourage citizens, 60% of which do not donate 0.5% tax, and by doing this,
Read more →The Civic Solidarity Platform (CSP) – a network of over 80 human rights NGOs from Europe, the former Soviet Union, and North America – organized the 7th OSCE Parallel Civil Society Conference in Hamburg on 6-7 December 2016, ahead of the annual OSCE Ministerial Council meeting taking place in this city on 8-9 December 2016.
Read more →Together the European Union and its Member States provide over 50 % of all global development aid, making them the world’s largest donors of official development assistance (ODA). In 2015, the EU’s collective ODA amounted to EUR 68 billion. As one of the oldest external activities of the European Communities, development policy was originally focused
Read more →How will the US development cooperation look like under the next administration? USAID is still waiting for the transition team and no one knows who will make up Tramp’s landing team. Officials expected that the new administration would arrive last month, and that a bulk of the transition effort would be spent on in-person briefings
Read more →The regional expert meeting was organized by a core group of the Global NPO Coalition on FATF in London on September 21, 2016. The goal of the meeting was to address the evaluation process from a government, nonprofit and FATF perspective in light of the recent revision of FATF Recommendation 8 (R8) and its Interpretative
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