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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News and updates from BCSDN and the region
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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Window of Opportunity for Enlargement: How much Space for Civil Society?
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 →BCSDN Annual Narrative and Financial/Audit Report Adopted
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…
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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…
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BCSDN has Joined the Vuka! Coalition for Civic Action
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…
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What Can We Do to Promote Civic Space: Perspectives from the Western Balkans and Türkiye
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…
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