News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The UN Trust Fund’s annual call for proposals accepts multi-year grant applications for up to USD 1 million. With its 20th funding cycle in 2016, the UN Trust Fund will fund organizations that qualify for funding: under the three programmatic areas of the UN Trust Fund Strategic Plan 2015–2020, under the “special window” addressing violence
Read more →Public and private institutions registered in a CEI Member State as well as international and regional organisations are invited to apply to the CEI Cooperation Fund for innovative actions favouring mobility and networking. Proposals need to focus on capacity building by transferring and sharing know-how, in particular from EU CEI Member States to non-EU CEI
Read more →The global objective of this Call is to increase knowledge about values and the functioning of the EU among the population at large in Serbia. Any amount requested under LOT 1 – production and broadcasting of TV and radio content about Serbia’s EU accession process, reforms needed, EU assistance and benefits of accession – must
Read more →On April 12th, 2016 in Skopje, Macedonian Center for International Cooperation (MCIC) presented the 2015 Monitoring Matrix Report on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development in Macedonia. Simona Ognenovska of MCIC provided a retrospective of the environment in which CSOs operated during 2015, briefly covering the main findings from all three Monitoring Matrix areas. With
Read more →As the European Commission is about to commence with the 2016 Enlargement Package, which will be adopted in November, the EU Delegation (EUD) to Montenegro has open consultations for all interested parties. Contributors are kindly asked to send a written input in the area of their expertise and which is covered with the Report no
Read more →The International Civil Society Center (ICS Centre) has drafted The Civic Charter– a document which provides a framework for people’s participation in securing a just, peaceful, and sustainable future. In the efforts of responding to human rights violations and global challenges, all the while facing severe restrictions and threats from governments and other powerful actors,
Read more →Disrupt&Innovate, the International Civil Society Centre (ICS – Centre) project serves as a platform for civil society professionals and activists to discuss the topics that will determine the sector’s future. The current article concerning civil society effective counter restrictions on civic space overviews four initiatives that have been seen as non-helpful in ‘protecting’ civic space,
Read more →The 2016 analysis from Publish What You Fund indicates that 25% of global aid now meets transparency standards. Despite the progress over the last five years, the analysis of 46 aid donors found that most have failed to uphold this commitment. Once again, BCSDN has taken part in the ATI evaluations as an independent reviewer
Read more →On April 12th, 2016 in Skopje, Macedonian Center for International Cooperation (MCIC) held an event so as to introduce to the interested public the 2015…
Read more →The 2016 analysis from Publish What You Fund indicates that 25% of global aid now meets transparency standards. Despite the progress over the last five…
Read more →Caroline Slocock, Director of the think tank Civil Exchange published the report Independence in Question, building on the work of the Panel of the Independence of the Voluntary Sector, a five year programme set up to measure whether charities’ independence was under threat. Slocock highlighted that the challenges have increased since the last year’s panel,
Read more →The Global Trends in NGO Law issued a report on the Challenges for Environmental CSOs. Bearing in mind the increasing global concern for environmental issues which have led to a proliferation of active and outspoken civil society groups on the one hand, and the variety of techniques that states employ to interfere the effective execution
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