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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News and updates from BCSDN and the region
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…
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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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Third Sector in Europe – Measuring the Size and its Impact
On 13 October, Tanja Hafner Ademi, Executive Director of BCSDN participated to the mid-term seminar of the FP7 project Third Sector Impact dealing with the…
Read more →Private Development Assistance: Global Trends
Private development assistance is finance from private sources given voluntarily through formal channels, including CSOs, and transferred across borders to promote international development and reduce poverty. If the international community is to meet the goal of ending absolute poverty by 2030, all available resources for development – not just official development assistance (ODA) – need
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CRNVO on Civil Society’s Inclusion in Public Policy Making and Implementation
A report titled “Civil society in the design and implementation of public policies” contains results of the five-month research conducted by CRNVO in order to…
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BCSDN Working on Strengthening and Sharing Experience on Monitoring the Enabling Environment in Enlargement Countries
On 22nd and 23rd September, 2015, BCSDN organized a training for 15 representatives of its member organization and Executive Office staff on international and European…
Read more →6 Ways Donors Can Help Build Effective Civil Society
Civil society is a powerful thing. It can change discriminatory laws, transform societies and hold governments to account. But how can donors contibute to building effective civil society? This was the big question of a twitter chat Bond co-hosted with the UK Department for International Development (DFID) as part of DFID’s review of its partnership
Read more →A Binding International Instrument on Business & Human Rights Should Safeguard Civic Space
In a commentary for the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, Maina Kiai, UN Sepcial Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and…
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