News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) is inviting women CSOs, networks and platforms promoting women’s rights and gender equality, with special focus on organizations representing women from minority and disadvantaged groups, to submit proposals to strengthen existing networks and platforms, or to establish new ones. The goal
Read more →On the occasion of the G20 Summit, deutschland.de is seeking applications for its world-wide competition “#youforG20 – your project for an interconnected world”. The G20 summit in Hamburg in July will revolve around the big issues facing global society. The competition #youforG20 is looking for good ideas with which citizens can make a difference in
Read more →Building on the Istanbul Principles and the rich experience of the CSO sector, nine established CSO accountability networks from across the globe, including BCSDN, worked together for two years to develop a Global Standard that captures a globally shared, dynamic understanding of accountability. The Global Standard includes 12 Commitments and associated Key Actions organized into
Read more →Western Balkans Fund has announced that all its Contracting Parties have concluded the internal procedures and have deposited the instruments of ratification, certifying the adoption of the Agreement Establishing the WBF to the Government of the Republic of Albania, acting as the Depository. WBF Agreement is now effective and has entered into force, culminating the
Read more →This year, CSO Open Days in Croatia were held in cooperation with the initatives Croatia Volunteers 2017 and “Gledaj (u)druge”. Croatia Volunteers, organized this year for the seventh time, highlighted the potential for social development that is created by volunteering when people and organizations from the civil society, public and business sectors are connected. The
Read more →The Ministry of Public Administration in Slovenia has opened online consultations on the Strategy for Development of CSOs and Volunteering. So far, Slovenia has not had a comprehensive strategic document, useful and necessary for the Government and other stakeholders for further development of the CSO sector and volunteering in Slovenia. The text is published on
Read more →As Turkey is rated as “repressed” by the CIVICUS Monitor, CIVICUS spoke to Huseyin Hurmali, President of the Journalists and Writers Foundation about the difficult environment for journalists in Turkey. Worldwide, Turkey has the highest number of imprisoned journalists. Concrete information, confirmed by the international press and human rights organizations, indicates that Turkey is not
Read more →Civil Society Europe and CIVICUS have re-launched their annual survey to map out key trends on civic space in Europe over the last year. The survey covers the European Union, the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the countries candidate to EU accession. As a follow up to the 2016 survey, CSE wants to assess how
Read more →Action for Sustainable Development has developed a scorecard as a tool for civil society to identify the areas in which countries have created implementation plans for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the current status of the plans, and where there are gaps/opportunities. The first page of the scorecard is meant to gather fundamental information
Read more →It’s easy to feel discouraged these days about international development. The new US administration has proposed cutting the foreign aid budget by nearly a third and eliminating certain programmes. Even if the US Congress manages to salvage some of these funds, the fight against global poverty seems at risk of losing momentum. But it’s worth
Read more →From 7 February to 3 May 2017, the European Commission held a Public Consultation on the EU External Financing Instruments aimed at all stakeholders in beneficiary and EU countries. The objective of the consultation was to gather feedback on the emerging conclusions from the evaluations, as well as preliminary ideas on the future external financing
Read more →Maina Kiai, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, has published the final issue (Issue No. 27) of the newsletter Assembly and Association Briefing. In the final issue you can read about Kiai’s completion of his term as Rapporteur, his mandate in numbers and its handing over to Annalisa Ciampi;
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