News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The Balkan Civil Society Development Network participated on the Closing Conference of the project Sharing the experiences of Visegrad Cooperation in the Western Balkans and…
Read more →Twenty-five representatives from civil society organizations from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia gathered on February 28 and March 1, 2011…
Read more →On the 9th of November, the European Commission presented its annual assessments of the progress made by the potential and candidate countries from the Western…
Read more →On the 9th of November, the European Commission presented its annual assessments of the progress made by the potential and candidate countries from the Western Balkans and Turkey in membership towards the EU. Apart from the Enlargement Strategy Paper 2010-2011, which outsets the Commission’s enlargement agenda for the period, it also comprises the Opinions on
Read more →To date, civil society is considered an important part of the Enlargement strategy and is a regional benchmark, which the Commission continues to realize through support to civil society organizations (CSOs) in form of the Civil Society Facility (CSF). Following the publication of the reports BCSDN has prepared a short analysis available now for download.
Read more →BCSDN participated to the Strategic partners’ co-ordination meeting on the Council of Europe (CoE) Code of Good Practice for civil participation in the decision-making process.…
Read more →The DG Enlargement Unit organized the IPA Donors meeting to present the multi-annual plan for 2011-2013. The general objective was to discuss and elaborate the…
Read more →On the 30th of September the EU Programming Committee met discussing the second phase of the IPA Civil Society Facility Technical Assistance project as well…
Read more →The Working Group EPAN (Enlargement, Pre-Accession and Neighbourhood) met at the beginning of October under the auspices of TRIALOG. The Working Group Meeting gathered representatives…
Read more →For the first time, the database provides complete information on the state of civil dialogue in the Balkan countries in one place. The data include…
Read more →On 5th June, 2009 (i.e. over one year ago), our network approached the Commission on the need to better include local CSOs in the programming…
Read more →As of 2nd June, 2010, the Commission announced (through the TACSO website) that there will be no external evaluation to the project. It is not clear whether or when there would be an evaluation of the other two components of the Facility, i.e. P2P and Partnership Action. On 5th June, 2009 (i.e. over one year ago),
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