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…
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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…
Read more →A Four-Point Commitment Made by Western Balkans Governments on the Occasion of the Western Balkans OGP Dialogue 2015
The Open Government Partnership, launched in 2011 to foster more open and accountable government, more responsive to citizens, is an increasingly important initiative for the…
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BCSDN Lends its Expertise in Development of Strategy for the Black Sea Region Civil Society
On 9th September, 2015, Tanja Hafner Ademi and Milka Ivanova Hadjievska of BCSDN presented the report on the Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development in…
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CI Supporting Young Women Employment in IT Sector
Civic Initiatives have started implementing a project for enabling marginalized young women from in Sandzak and South of Serbia to get education in IT. Obtained…
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MCIC Government Mirror: 65 Draft Laws under Parliament Discussion without Being Published for Public Consultation
According to the last edition of the “Government Mirror” published by the Macedonian Center for International Cooperation (MCIC), at the Macedonian Assembly sessions held during…
Read more →Outcome Document Finally Available – Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
With a delay of ten days, the UN has published the final outcome document for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to be officially adopted at the UN Summit on 25th-27th September, 2015, in New York. The Agenda sets out the aims of the organization and all its members for the coming 15 years in the
Read more →Should Aid still Flow to Middle-Income Nations or Are the Poorest the Priority?
Should aid continue to flow to middle-income countries, or should the world’s poorest countries receive a greater share? It is a debate that has intensified since world leaders set the millennium development goals (MDGs) 15 years ago, during which time more than 30 countries have moved from low- to middle-income status. MDG8, which aims to
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