News and updates from BCSDN and the region
On 25th January in Brussels, BCSDN organized a meeting with European Commission’s officials working on civil society in Enlargement and Neighbourhood countries with the aim to share its experience with monitoring the enabling environment in practice. Tina Divjak, BCSDN Board member, presented to the EC officials the Monitoring Matrix methodology and its complementarity with the
Read more →Within the efforts to strengthen the capacity of local CSOs for monitoring and advocacy, two organizations from Serbia have developed policy papers in the area of transparent funding, with the support of the Balkan Public Policy Fund (BPPF), implemented by BCSDN and its partners (Civic Initiatives in Serbia). The Centre for Development of a Democratic
Read more →In Macedonia, within the Balkan Public Policy Fund, the civic association Konekt prepared an analysis of the public policies related to the environment for employment in CSOs. On 21st January, 2016, in the premises of Public Room, Skopje, the results of the analysis were publicly presented in front of more than 50 representatives of civil
Read more →78 CSOs from Macedonia addressed a letter to the whole international community requiring the implementation of genuine reforms as they are preconditions for free and fair elections. CSOs emphasized that, albeit the European Commission’s requirement from Macedonian authorities for fulfilling the urgent reform priorities and the experts’ recommendations that should have guaranteed free and fair
Read more →As a part of the continuous advocacy efforts by global non-profit (NPO) coalition, 123 organisations from 46 countries signed a letter calling on the FATF to open a process to revise Recommendation 8 in order to minimize future missuses. FATF’s standards, combined with country compliance evaluations, have led to a growth of restrictive regulations for
Read more →Half the money the European Union spends on aid is wasted, stolen or held up by incompetence, a report has warned. The study by MEPs…
Read more →The field of international development cooperation is undergoing tectonic shifts, with new nodes of decision-making and resources emerging alongside existing institutions. A paper by the UN University Center for Policy Research concentrates on two recently established institutions, one primarily regional and the other essentially transregional: the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the BRICS’ New
Read more →On 26th-27th January, representatives of FPA (Framework Partnership Agreement) project partners met in Brussels to discuss sustainability of their actions and to brainstorm about recommendations…
Read more →The latest MAXCAP paper investigates the process of judicial reform in Turkey in the last 15 years, with a focus on the reversal of such reforms since 2013. To do so, it asks whether and to what extent these reforms as well as their changing pace and direction have been driven by the political conditionality
Read more →On 25th January in Brussels, BCSDN organized a meeting with European Commission’s officials working on civil society in Enlargement and Neighbourhood countries with the aim…
Read more →In the framework the efforts to strengthen the capacity of local CSOs for monitoring and advocacy in the areas essential for the functioning of civil society, covered by the Monitoring Matrix and the EU Guidelines for Support to Civil Society in Enlargement Countries, 2014-2020, BCSDN and Civic Initiatives have supported two organizations in Serbia in
Read more →Active Participation in Civil Society: International Standards, Obstacles in National Legislation and Proposals Report is published by TUSEV within the scope of Strengthening Civil Society…
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