News and updates from BCSDN and the region
CSOs all over the world are under significant pressure. Armed with smart phones and connected like never before, civil society actors have found new ways to organize, demand greater government accountability, and inject their voices into policy debates. As citizens’ voices have grown louder and more influential, many governments have responded by cracking down on
Read more →A new Law on Amendments to Corporate Profit Tax Law, adopted on 29th December, 2015, by parliament members in National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, now ensures the equal treatment of CSOs – social care service providers. This comes as a result of long advocacy efforts for legislative changes by CSOs in Serbia, led by
Read more →This report, published by WAN-IFRA and prepared by Centre for Civic Education (CCE) – Montenegro, catalogues the forms and maps the extent of soft censorship by Montenegro’s state and public institutions against media outlets and media practitioners. This is done primarily through the lens of finances, which is the dominant means of soft censorship in
Read more →Perhaps no quality captures more effectively the distinctive character of non-profit institutions and related voluntary citizen behaviour than the quality of resilience—the ability to withstand significant shifts in fortunes and challenges and find ways to persist in the pursuit of their missions. This past year has certainly demonstrated this quality of the non-profit and citizen
Read more →In the OECD bi-annual statistical report How’s Life?, describing the essential ingredients that shape people’s well-being in OECD and partner countries, one chapter analyses the importance and features of voluntary work – i.e. the time devoted to unpaid non-compulsory activities whose concern is the common good. The study suggests that volunteering produces benefits not only
Read more →A new GPF working paper, jointly published with Brot für die Welt and MISEREOR, examines the role and impact of philanthropic foundations in development. It addresses the impacts and side effects of philanthropic engagement by taking a closer look at the priorities and operations of two of the most prominent foundations, the Rockefeller Foundation and
Read more →The TACSO People2People, TACSO BH and TACSO by VESTA are jointly organizing the conference “Transparent Allocation of Public Funds – EU good practices and Models” in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 29-31, March 2016. The event aims to examine good models for ensuring transparency of public funding for civil society and sharing mechanisms for implementation
Read more →TACSO Albania and Macedonia Offices in cooperation with EU Delegations from both countries and Operating Structures of IPA/Cross Border Cooperation Program 2014-2020 Macedonia and Albania are going to organize a Partnership Day event between Albanian and Macedonian CSOs and Local Government Units (LGUs).The aim of the event is to facilitate the establishment of contacts and
Read more →In 2016, sixteen journalists from Southeast Europe will be selected to participate in the ‘Economic and Political Reporting from Southeast Europe’ programme, managed by experienced staff from Thomson Reuters Foundation and Robert Bosch Stiftung. The programme includes two 10-day training courses in London, UK (10-23 April) and in Berlin, Germany (11-24 September) and is run
Read more →Pursuant to the Decision on criteria, standards and procedures for the allocation of property owned by the Croatian Government to the use by CSOs for implementation of programs and projects of interest to the common good, the State Office for State Property Management (DUUDI) published a public call for applications for granting property owned by
Read more →World Bank’s Global Program on Forced Displacement (GPFD) has issued a call for ideas to improve development response for refugees and internally displaced persons. Proposals are currently being accepted innovative and transformational ideas that can improve the development response to forced displacement. Innovative ideas may include analytical work, use of new technologies, or development projects.
Read more →The ‘Balkan-Mediterranean 2014-2020’ is a new transnational cooperation programme bringing together five countries, three EU member states (Bulgaria, Cyprus and Greece) and two candidate countries, Albania and Macedonia. The BalkanMed Programme’s overall objective is to build on shared territorial assets and promote integrated territorial development and cooperation for a more competitive and sustainable Balkan –
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