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Bilateral donor funding refers to the donor country’s Government aid to recipient country in a Gov2Gov or a Gov2CivilSociety partnership. It is part of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) policies of the OECD member countries, which plays a major role in providing development funding to Governments and Civil Society. Bilateral donor funding can cover infrastructure,
Read more →From 25th April to 11th May, Civil Society Europe (CSE) launched a survey on the EC Financial Regulations to collect CSOs views on the review of the financial regulations and rules of application of the European Commission. The Survey included questions raised by the European Commission into its own public consultation open until 27 May
Read more →A large academic literature exists that identifies structural, individual and polity-level correlates of opposition to Enlargement, the most important of these being socio-economic status, attachment to national identity, perceived economic threats and political cues. Some recent studies, however, have shown that identity effects can be muted when expectations of economic support are mobilized at the
Read more →Despite a number of historic legal successes in recent years, organizations advocating for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) individuals continue to face monumental challenges in their attempts to exercise their fundamental rights to assemble, associate and express themselves. Such challenges are particularly formidable when they come in the form of
Read more →The CEU Center for European Neighborhood Studies (CENS) and the Andrássy University (AUB) are organizing the regional conference “Regional Cooperation and Regional Identity in the Western Balkans: Similarities and Differences” in Budapest. Maintaining good neighborly relations and participating in regional cooperation, as explicit conditions for progress towards EU integration, is one of the most efficient
Read more →Research on European integration tends to assume that a larger membership weakens the legal system of the European Union (EU) through growing non-compliance with EU law. The main compliance theories expect this negative impact to be particularly salient if Enlargement adds new members that are big, poor, Eurosceptic, or have inefficient bureaucracies. Against these expectations,
Read more →TACSO Macedonia and MCIC (TACSO Resource Center) are organizing a training on “Public Relations for CSOs” from 8-10 June 2016 in Skopje. The training aims to contribute to increasing the knowledge and skills of elected representatives of CSOs in Macedonia on how to improve the image of their organizations and to develop public relations and
Read more →The application process for this year’s “Balkans, Let’s Get Up!” program invites young people, aged 18-27 years, to participate in the educational programme intended for empowerment of young people for active and responsible participation in society, and to contribute to society with a civic initiative. The program consists of three parts: 1) Summer school on “How
Read more →Within the framework of the Western Balkans CSOs for Global Development program, Pontis Foundation and Institute for Democracy and Mediation announce a call for research proposals in the area of global development agenda in the context of Albanian policies, in particular development cooperation policy and awareness raising. The main goal of the proposed activities is
Read more →OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) supports initiatives aimed at enhancing livelihoods by addressing challenges in areas such as education, energy poverty, food security, public health, water supply and sanitation, which may not be directly funded through other financing windows. OFID’s grant program includes technical assistance for small-scale social schemes, sponsorship for research and other
Read more →Within the framework of the “In Your Focus” project, a program for support of local print and online media through allocation of small grants has been announced. The aim of the “In Your Focus” project is to contribute to improving the capacity of local journalists and media to produce investigative stories with the cooperation and support of
Read more →In April 2016, the National Assembly of Slovenia passed the amendment on the Law on Administrative Taxes, according to which all public benefit organizations (PBOs) are now exempt from all administrative taxes. During August 2015, the Ministry of Public Administration drafted amendments to the Law on Administrative Taxes, with which associations, charities, foundations and institutions
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