News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Over 110 social change campaigners from nearly 40 countries around the world gathered at CampaignCon 2017 in Johannesburg, 7-9 November, to learn, share experiences and build the skills to grow movements and win bigger. How to transform couch activists into actual activists was one of the first things social change campaigners agreed they needed to
Read more →Technology has the potential to massively change the way citizens interact with government and each other, serving to strengthen communities and governance. People, organizations and government have begun to leverage technology to inform and encourage civic engagement, from simplifying voter registration to hosting virtual government town halls to launching crowdfunding campaigns supporting civic assets. This
Read more →The Civil Society Exchange provides civil society organizations and initiatives a platform and framework for forming and fostering partnerships between Turkey and Europe. During the program, partners work together to create a model for tackling a mutual organizational issue and improving and building their internal capacity. Civil society actors are invited to come together, work
Read more →Applications are open for Global Sustainability Fellows (GSF) Program that represents a unique opportunity for transformative personal growth, with a dynamic curriculum focused on sustainability, systems thinking, and community development. As such, fellows are required to stay for the entirety of the program, which will take place from June 16 – July 7, 2018 in
Read more →ISHR’s Human Rights Defender Advocacy Programme (HRDAP) equips defenders with the knowledge and skills to make strategic use of the international human rights system. It also provides an opportunity for participants to directly engage in lobbying and advocacy activities at the UN level to effect change on the ground back home. The training will take
Read more →The College of Europe, founded in 1949, is one of the oldest and most prestigious postgraduate academies of European studies. It fosters academic understanding of the political, legal, economic and international dynamics surrounding the European integration. The bilingual Master of Arts in European Interdisciplinary Studies offered by the Natolin Campus of the College of Europe
Read more →SHL is seeking applications for support of educational youth project activities in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Serbia. The general objective of this Call is to empower young people to actively shape their own living conditions and environment in the context of migration. The specific objectives are to respond to immediate
Read more →The UN Trust Fund has launched the 2017 Call for Proposals for its 21st grants cycle to support civil society organizations that qualify for funding (a) under the three programmatic areas of the UN Trust Fund Strategic Plan 2015-2020, (b) under the “special window” addressing violence against women and girls in the context of the
Read more →EUROPEANS FOR PEACE promotes international exchange projects for young people from countries of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Israel and Germany. Schools and non-school educational institutions can join up in international partnerships and apply for funding for their joint project. Under the theme “Celebrate diversity! Youth exchange for all”, EUROPEANS FOR PEACE encourages young people
Read more →After the open call for an Executive Director during October 2017, the Board of BCSDN has elected Ilina Neshikj for the position of BCSDN Executive Director. The decision takes effect as of 1 November 2017, giving Ilina a mandate of three years on this position. Over the past seven years, Ms. Neshikj has been a
Read more →The OECD-DAC convened at high level in Paris on 30 and 31 October to discuss about a range of issues of particular importance for international development, such as how to enhance the engagement of private sector in development, how donors can improve effectiveness of their development actions, and about the consequences of discontinuing ODA to
Read more →By failing to adequately limit population growth, reassess the role of an economy rooted in growth, reduce greenhouse gases, incentivise renewable energy, protect habitat, restore ecosystems, curb pollution, halt defaunation, and constrain invasive alien species, humanity is not taking the urgent steps needed to safeguard our imperilled biosphere. These words are signed by 15.364 climate
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