News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The first call for proposals under the IPA2CSO Mechanism in Macedonia is to provide support for CSOs in the process of developing sectoral policy analyses, which describe the current situation in one of the sectors identified in the CfP and give suggestions and recommendations for its improvement, as well as implementing related advocacy activities. The
Read more →The specific objective of this call is to support quality media production in the areas related to Montenegro’s European Integration and to enable media to report fairly, freely and in a professional and ethical manner. At the same time the citizens are meant to be further educated about their rights in the context of the
Read more →The specific objectives of this CfP are to: 1) establish, improve or sustain community-based social services, 2) establish and strengthen social business initiatives, and 3) support local-level inter-sectoral measures for decreasing early school leaving, preventing dropout and increasing educational attainment. The overall indicative amount made available under this call is EUR 5.500.000. Any grant requested
Read more →Despite the initial reaction by civil society on 20th May over the sudden adoption of the Decision on the Establishment of the Council for Cooperation between the Government and Civil Society, on 23rd May the General Secretariat of the Government published a Call for selection of 13 members of the Council coming from associations and
Read more →On 13th June, the Agency for Supporting Civil Society (ASCS) announced the list of CSO representatives to become members of the National Council of Civil Society (NCCS), based on the online voting process for the candidates of civil society representatives to the Council. ASCS has published the final results of the voting process, as well as the final
Read more →On 3rd June, the Slovenian Ministry of Finance enacted amendments to the Rules on the Implementation of the Law on Value Added Tax, which stipulate that smaller CSOs are no longer required to issue invoices when selling their products or services, thereby they will no longer be obliged to use fiscal cash registers. The change
Read more →Fundamentalism can encompass much more than religion, and in this report the Special Rapporteur takes a much broader view of the term. He believes that fundamentalism can and should be defined more expansively, to include any movements – not simply religious ones – that advocate strict and literal adherence to a set of basic beliefs
Read more →The 2016 Open CSO Days in Croatia were held from 23rd to 25th May, and more than 300 associations presented their programmes and activities, bringing them closer to the citizens. With their participation in the CSOs activities, the citizens were able to gain insight in the wide array of activities that the associations are engaged
Read more →In some countries, new laws and government decisions have blocked the ability of CSOs to fully participate in public policy, often through restrictions on access to foreign funding. Human rights defenders have been harassed or arrested, and CSOs closed down. The Conference of INGOs organized a debate on 6th and 7th June in Strasbourg “Only
Read more →Macedonian Center for International Cooperation (MCIC) published the third edition of the Government Mirror – report based on monitoring the legal framework and public participation in the process of law making in Macedonia. According to the report findings, the openness of the institutions has decreased since the 2014 report, no changes has been noted on
Read more →The Second CPCD Civil Society ARENA was organized on 31st May, with the aim to open a broad public debate on the effectiveness, priorities and the effects of the current system of financing programs and projects of the CSOs from the budget. The experiences of CSOs, recent research and the latest findings of the Office
Read more →Civil Society Europe (CSE) has participated to the European Public Consultation for a Mandatory Transparency Register, opened by the European Commission since March 2016. CSE calls for the Register to become mandatory and to cover all EU institutions and be complemented with further transparency rules and codes as regards meetings of officials involved in policy
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