News and updates from BCSDN and the region
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…
Read more →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…
Read more →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…
Read more →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 →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
Read more →For the 9th consecutive year, BCSDN has analyzed how the European Commission (EC) has treated the issue of civil society development and assessed the progress…
Read more →At an online extended session of the 10th BCSDN Annual Council Meeting, on 30 April, the Council members approved the BCSDN Annual Report 2017, as…
Read more →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…
Read more →Over the past two years, CIVICUS and more than 200 civil society colleagues, undertook an extensive consultative process to explore collective strategies to combat the global…
Read more →The damaging trend of violations to civic space worldwide has not surpassed the Balkan region either. Only in 2016 the space for effective civil society development…
Read more →The 10th Annual Council Meeting (ACM) of the network took place on 20 March in Pristina, Kosovo, hosted by Kosovar Civil Society foundation (KCSF). The annual gathering…
Read more →On 19-20 March, BCSDN members met in Pristina, Kosovo, for a strategic workshop on the Monitoring Matrix, co-hosted by Kosovar Civil Society Foundation (KCSF), to…
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