News and updates from BCSDN and the region
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;
Read more →This survey report presents the findings of the public Opinion Poll carried out during 12- 24 December 2016 across 61 municipalities of Albania. The objective of the Opinion Poll is to explore the level of trust towards public institutions as well as the attitudes towards the performance of public institutions and service delivery in the
Read more →Finding the appropriate funding sources for a local authority, a public entity, a company or a CSO can be a major problem. Information is scattered across many different sources and is often confusing and outdated. The EPRS ‘Guide to EU Funding 2014-2020’ is a basic introduction to EU funding opportunities for regional and local authorities,
Read more →The Balkan Trust for Democracy has announced a Call for Participants for the Leadership Academy for Development “The Role of Public Policy in Private Sector Development“, taking place in Sarajevo (BiH), 3-7 July 2017. The Leadership Academy for Development (LAD) is an executive-level training program that trains government officials and business sector leaders from developing
Read more →The 5th Global ECPD Youth Forum on Youth, Peace and Sustainable development, hosted in Belgrade, Republic of Serbia on 28-29 October 2017, will bring together young people, youth-led organizations, non-governmental organizations, and professors and experts from all around the world. The 5th Global ECPD Youth Forum will take place under the general theme “Youth Peacebuilders
Read more →TACSO People2People is supporting the organization of “Going Beyond Pride and Pain?”, the 3rd annual regional “History that Connects the Balkans” Summer School on 18-23 July 2017 in Albania. This event aims to facilitate transnational transfer of knowledge and experience, to stimulate innovative teaching practices in the region, build capacity of educators and their associations
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