Monitoring Matrix Methodology Workshop Held in Skopje
After months of consulting with an external expert in providing guidance to unify the MM methodology and to come up with future steps for the…
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News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Civil Society Programme for Albania and Kosovo Launched by KCSF and PA
The ‘Civil Society programme for Albania and Kosovo’ is financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and managed by the Kosovar Civil Society Foundation…
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Presentation of the CSOSI 2017 Report for Macedonia
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) published the 21st edition of their Civil Society Organization Sustainability Index (CSOSI) for Central and Eastern Europe…
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CSOSI 2017 for Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia: Closing Space for CSOs in the Region
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) published the 21st edition of their Civil Society Organization Sustainability Index (CSOSI) for Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia,…
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ICSW 2019 to Take Place in Belgrade!
BCSDN is proud to announce that the International Civil Society Week (ICSW) 2019 will take place from 8-12 April in Belgrade, Serbia organized in partnership…
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CPDE All Secretariats’s Meeting in Beirut
The All Secretariats’ Meeting of the CSO Partnership for Development Cooperation (CPDE) this year took place from 7th-10th June in Beirut, Lebanon. It is a…
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CIVICUS Monitor Research Partners Workshop 2018 Held in Beirut
A CIVICUS Monitor Research Partners Workshop was organized on 27th-29th June in Beirut, Lebanon, the Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND). BCSDN’s Communications Officer, Anja…
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Worlds’ Major Development Aid Agencies Getting More Transparent, Still Space for Improvement
Publish What You Fund has recently published the 2018 Aid Transparency Index. The Aid Transparency Index is the only independent measure of aid transparency among the…
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Call for Visual Ideas for the CoE Guidelines for Civil Participation Campaign
The Council of Europe’s Democratic Governance Department has been working for some time to put into practice the recent Committee of Ministers Guidelines for civil…
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NEW! Balkan Civic Practices Special Edition on Promoting Civic Space
We are proud to present you the special online edition of the Balkan Civic Practices: Promoting Civic Space – the result of months of work, together with…
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Examining Civil Society Legitimacy
Pressed to defend their very existence, civic groups and their supporters face a question they often neglected in earlier, less hostile times—from where does civil society derive its legitimacy? Or more bluntly, how is legitimacy earned? In donor and policy debates, two ideas repeatedly re-surface—that civic groups need to develop wider constituencies and more local
Read more →The Global Standard for CSO Accountability Now Available in Albanian
As part of the Global Standard for CSO Accountability project, and the project “Promoting Civic Space: Duties and Participants” supported by Civica Mobilitas, BCSDN provided a translation of the Global Standard in Albanian language. The purpose of the Global Standard is to mainstream a dynamic approach to accountability in ways which strengthen CSO effectiveness, connectedness
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