News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The European Union has demonstrated great leadership in making the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris climate agreement or human rights conventions. The next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) will need to reflect these existing commitments and provide the EU with the sufficient budget to positively contribute to development cooperation. CONCORD’s Position Paper on the
Read more →While not all public giving is necessarily socially progressive in its motivation or sustainable in its application, there is an important piece of the emerging discourse around participatory or community philanthropy that is being championed and innovated by civil society activists who feel that it is time for local people to have a greater say
Read more →On the invitation by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), BCSDN participated to the Study Group Meeting of the Section for External relations of…
Read more →On invitation by the Council of Europe, BCSDN participated on a strategic meeting devoted to the newly adopted Council of Europe Guidelines on Civil Participation.…
Read more →The Global Standard is a reference standard that captures a globally shared dynamic understanding of CSO Accountability. It was developed by nine Accountability Initiatives including BCSDN,…
Read more →From 4 to 8 December in Suva, Fiji, more than 700 delegates from all around the world gathered at the CIVICUS International Civil Society Week…
Read more →BCSDN participated at the 10th Edition of the Black Sea NGO Forum organized in Chisinau, Moldova from December 4-6 by the Romanian NGDO Platform FOND,…
Read more →No one needs to remind international CSOs that they face pressure from both ends. Donor countries that once spawned or nourished them are now looking for more direct connections to locally-based groups serving local needs. And aid-receiving countries are adopting highly restrictive policies they justify by questioning the legitimacy of foreign funding to civil society
Read more →Over the past year, EFC has joined forces with the new Funders Initiative to Strengthen Civil Society to jointly examine how the trend of shrinking space for civil society effects development funders and actors, and how they are responding. Questions explored in this joint paper include: how are development actors and funders experiencing the space
Read more →Online content manipulation contributed to a seventh consecutive year of overall decline in internet freedom, along with a rise in disruptions to mobile internet service and increases in physical and technical attacks on human rights defenders and independent media. Nearly half of the 65 countries assessed in Freedom on the Net 2017 experienced declines during
Read more →This toolkit, developed by ILGA-Europe & the Public Interest Research Centre, is a short guide to strategic communications, based on extensive research and building on the experience of activists and communicators from around the globe. It aims to provide a framework rather than a blueprint; helping CSOs to ask the right questions rather than giving
Read more →CAS SEE is announcing a new annual call for Fellowships for Spring and Autumn 2018. This call is organized along selected thematic foci but also offers the possibility of open applications. The CAS SEE Fellowship Program for Spring (15 February – 15 July 2018) and Autumn (September – 15 February 2019) will host 14 junior
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