News and updates from BCSDN and the region
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 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
Read more →On 26th August, around 100 representatives of civil society from the Western Balkans met to finalize recommendations delivered to EU and Western Balkans leaders present…
Read more →After more than two years of intense negotiations, the UN’s 193 member states have unanimously agreed on a new Sustainable Development Agenda with 17 goals — including the elimination of extreme poverty and hunger — to be reached by 2030. An assessment of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals prepared by CIVICUS is
Read more →After almost a year of research in the region and in-depth interviews with over 80 journalists, editors, and independent media owners, Human Rights Watch released…
Read more →Being part of the accession process, the legislation and the practices in the field of CSO’s financing is included in the Acquis. The process of decentralized management of EC assistance, enables the national institutions to assume the obligations of managing financial procedures and rules under PRAG. Except in Croatia, the current approach adopted by the
Read more →Despite high expectations, the third International Conference on Financing for Development, organized on 13th to 16th July in Addis Ababa, ended on a predictable note: the United Nations proclaimed it a roaring success while most CSOs expressed scepticism over the final outcome. Hours after the conclusion of the conference in the Ethiopian capital, the UN
Read more →Despite high expectations, the third International Conference on Financing for Development, organized on 13th to 16th July in Addis Ababa, ended on a predictable note: the United Nations proclaimed it a roaring success while most CSOs expressed scepticism over the final outcome. Hours after the conclusion of the conference in the Ethiopian capital, the UN
Read more →Office for Cooperation with Civil Society in Serbia has developed an interactive web platform OCDoskop, within the “Civil Society Enabling Environment” project, aiming to offer…
Read more →On 28th July, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) delegation met with representatives of civil society during their field visit to Macedonia to investigate…
Read more →Civil society organizations (CSOs) must not be the decor of the European integration of Montenegro, and only when the Government acknowledges the CSOs’ essential work…
Read more →On 21st July, Tanja Hafner Ademi, Executive Director of BCSDN, together with a group of representatives of CSOs and think-tanks in Macedonia met with representatives…
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