Consultations on International Accounting Standards for Non-Profit Organizations
On 5th October, 2015 a seminar about the development of international guidance on a coherent set of financial reporting standards was held by CIPFA. Built…
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Enhancing Enabling Environment in the Black Sea Region: BCSDN Team Presents a First Ever Regional Mapping Report
On 2nd November, BCSDN team composed of Tanja Hafner Ademi and Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska presented the report Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development in the…
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Report on the Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development for the Black Sea Region
BCSDN is proud to present the report on the Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development for the Black Sea Region, assessing the state of the enabling environment in 8 countries of the Black Sea region: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. Commissioned by the Black Sea NGO Forum, the report, prepared by
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Reinvigorating the Enlargement Process and Strengthening the EU’s Integration Capacity: Insights from MAXCAP
The ‘big-bang enlargement’ of the EU has nurtured vivid debates among academics, practitioners and EU citizens about the consequences of ‘an ever larger Union’ for the EU’s integration capacity. Over the past two years MAXCAP has examined whether the Eastern enlargement of 2004 and 2007 has limited the EU’s internal capacity to enlarge further and
Read more →Juncker’s Enlargement Standstill Threatens the EU’s Credibility
Pandering to public opinion’s enlargement fatigue by ruling out any more EU newcomers before 2019 has sent confused political signals to Balkan candidate countries. Frank Schimmelfennig, Professor of European Politics at ETH Zurich, partner in the joint MAXCAP project, analyses the outcomes in an opinion published in the Europe’s World journal autumn 2015 issue. According
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UN Expert: Promote Civil Society By Elevating Its Treatment To The Same Level As Business
Civil society’s contributions to a nation’s wellbeing are just as important as those made by businesses, UN expert Maina Kiai told the UN General Assembly…
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Missing Rights and Resources for Civil Society
Civil society groups and organisations are facing an unprecedented crackdown in a number of authoritarian and democratic countries. From Myanmar to Mexico, a viral wave…
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OGP Summit 2015: Advancing Open Governments but Shrinking Civic Space
Between 27th and 29th October, around 2000 representatives of governments, civil society, business and academia gathered in Mexico City to mark 4 years since the…
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University of Michigan Hosts Bootcamp to Support CSOs Leadership
The Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies and the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan partnered together to sponsor a bootcamp in Bratislava, Slovakia,…
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TUSEV: Sharing Data on Enabling Environment in Türkiye
TUSEV has started a social media campaign under the brand name of “TUSEV Atolye (workshop)” with the aim of sharing data and information regarding CS…
Read more →Gov2Gov/CSO Online Platform Launch Announced
The Serbian Government Office for Cooperation with Civil Society has announced the launch of an online platform aimed at sharing and exchanging information relevant for…
Read more →Comparative Highlights of Foundation Laws: The Operating Environment for Foundations in Europe 2015
This publication aims to provide the reader with a comparative overview of the diverse legal and fiscal environments of foundations in 40 countries across wider…
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