News and updates from BCSDN and the region
On the 30th of October 2015, Partnere per Femijet, one of the BPPF grantees for Albania, organized the launching event of the policy brief “The Situation of State Funding of Civil Society Organizations to Improve the Rights and Lives of Children and Youth in Albania”, in the premises of Mondial Hotel. At this event, representatives
Read more →On 30th of October 2015, the Albanian Institute for Public Affairs organized a roundtable event to present the findings of the occasional policy paper “CSO involvement at EU accession negotiations: Best Practices from previous accession”. The policy research output contributes to the debate in Albania regarding civil society involvement in EU accession negotiations. The references
Read more →On February 2nd, 2016, BCSDN organized a webinar – “Measuring the Impact of the Third Sector: Concept, Metrics, Statistics, and Data: Developments to Consider in…
Read more →More aggressive tactics by authoritarian regimes and an upsurge in terrorist attacks contributed to a disturbing decline in global freedom in 2014. Freedom in the…
Read more →Third Sector Impact (TSI) released a new Policy Brief “Assessing the Impact of the Third Sector in Europe: From Concept to Metrics. Progress on Indicators…
Read more →Members of global civil society have come together to make the voices of people heard and to hold leaders to account on the commitments they have made, including the Sustainable Development Goals, and key commitments on financing and universal implementation. CSOs from across all regions, involved in current civil society initiatives and platforms active in
Read more →The Civil Society Scholar Awards (CSSA) support international academic mobility to enable doctoral students and university faculty to access resources that enrich socially engaged research and critical scholarship in their home country or region. The awards support activities such as fieldwork (data collection); research visits to libraries, archives, or universities; course/curriculum development; and international collaborations
Read more →The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) is launching its call for applications for the 2016 edition of the TRAIN Programme (Think Tanks Providing Research and Advice through Interaction and Networking) that seeks to foster a fruitful policy dialogue between think tanks and political actors in the Western Balkans. During a series of seminars, participants
Read more →The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda is lauded as a new universal agenda, different than anything that came before; an agenda aiming to address social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development in an integrated way. However, major questions have been raised: How will the SDGs be implemented? How will the new agenda tackle old problems?
Read more →The Magna Carta Fund for Human Rights and Democracy (MCFHRD) is the FCO’s dedicated strategic fund supporting our global human rights and democracy work. The FCO has reconfigured its human rights work around three interconnected themes that provide the basis of our funding strategy: 1) Democratic values and the rule of law; 2) The rules-based
Read more →In the framework of the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) a Call for proposals has published to strengthen the capacity of CSOs for more effective action in the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Turkey. The Call is divided into two lots: 1) Strengthening civil society’s involvement in the making,
Read more →A Call for proposals has been opened under the Interreg Cooperation Program Slovenia-Croatia 2014-2020 for co-financing operations that effectively contribute to the overall aim of the program: to promote a sustainable, safe and resonant border area by adopting smart approaches to conservation, mobilization and management of natural and cultural resources for the benefit of people
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