News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The objective of the call for proposals is to contribute to the development of a social finance market by enabling more social enterprises to take on repayable finance for developing and scaling up their innovative business model. In order to take into account the variety of social finance market situations, the call offers several strands:
Read more →The Global Standard is an initiative of well-established civil society networks from around the world, aiming to strengthen the effectiveness of CSOs worldwide by devising a collective accountability standard. The networks will over three years cooperate to learn from each other, gain a truly global view on CSO accountability, improve their codes and reduce transaction
Read more →CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) is requesting the input of the European Region on the Zero Draft of the Outcome Document of the Second High Level Meeting (HLM2) of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC). GPEDC brings together the full range of development actors to ensure that finance, knowledge and policy have maximum
Read more →About 900 civil society leaders and activists from more than 109 countries were in Bogota to discuss active citizenry and how to overcome threats faced by civil society groups during the International Civil Society Week 2016 that started on April 25. This was the largest and most diverse gathering of its kind and the first
Read more →On 27-28 April, TACSO held the Regional Conference “Monitoring of the EU Guidelines for the Support to Civil Society in the Enlargement Countries, 2014-2020 – Year 2” in Skopje, Macedonia. The conference gathered more than 80 participants among which representatives of EC Brussels, TACSO, SIPU International, media, and representatives of state institutions and CSOs from
Read more →On 19th April in Skopje, MCIC organized a thematic debate entitled “Setting the Records Straight: Availability of Public Funding for Civil Society in the Western Balkans and Turkey (WBT) Region”, gathering civil society and state institution representatives. Speakers at the event were: Stefania Andersen (Foundation for Development of Civil Society in Romania) presenting the best
Read more →On 22nd April 2016, while the Council for Development of Civil Society of the Government of Croatia held its session discussing the Regulation on the Criteria for Determining Beneficiaries and Methods for Allocation of the Revenue from Games of Chance for 2016, the Government adopted that very same Regulation through an extraordinary telephone session. In
Read more →For two consecutive weeks in April, mass protests have spread across Macedonian capital and towns lead by civil society #Protestiram (#IProtest) movement, which has facilitated the mobilization of citizens and various groups demonstrating their discontent with the pardon of 56 high-ranking officials by the President and the lack of reforms that were defined in the
Read more →On 11th April, 2016 in Ljubljana, CNVOS and the Ministry of Public Administration held a national conference for CSOs entitled Final Steps towards the Strategy for development of CSOs and Volunteering. At the conference, representatives of civil society and relevant ministries exchanged views on the direction of development of CSOs and volunteering in Slovenia and
Read more →Civil Society Europe (CSE) has prepared a survey to collect NGOs views on the review of the financial regulations and rules of application of the European Commission. The questions are based on the EC public consultations on the revision of the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the Union. The objectives of this
Read more →The European Commission and the Council of Europe announced on 11th April the launching of a joint initiative – EU/CoE Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans and Turkey – to assist partners in the Western Balkans and Turkey in addressing challenges in the areas of rule of law and human rights. The initiative will support reforms
Read more →The “Communicate at your best” website is a place that offers a broad range of training materials that will help CSOs professionalise their activity in terms of internal and external communication. Organizatia Tinerilor cu Initiativa – Arad, Pro Atlantico Association and Audele Association, have created a comprehensive training resource that will help organisations across the world
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