News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The European University Institute is seeking applications for its Young Policy Leaders Fellowships Program that is offering 3 to 12 months fellowships for the academic year 2017-18 to policy makers, civic leaders, civil servants, journalists or young scholars with a key interest in policy issues. These fellowships are distinctive in offering to fellows a unique
Read more →The U.S. Embassy in Belgrade is accepting applications from citizens of Serbia for participation in the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program for the academic year 2018-2019. The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program brings accomplished mid-level professionals to the U.S. for 10-months of combined academic (NON-DEGREE) and professional work. The Humphrey Fellowship is granted competitively to
Read more →Public and private institutions registered in a CEI Member State, as well as international and regional organisations, are invited to apply to the CEI Cooperation Fund for innovative actions favouring mobility and networking. Proposals need to focus on capacity building by transferring and sharing know-how, in particular from EU CEI Member States to non-EU CEI
Read more →The specific objective of this call for proposals is to support CSOs in their actions promoting and defending of human rights (political, civil, economic, social and cultural), as well as in the further democratisation of the society. The present support scheme envisages actions under four thematic priorities: 1) building inclusive democratic society, 2) access to
Read more →This regranting scheme is part of the FOSM project Civic Alliance for Transparency – CSO Watchdog over Public Administration Reforms, aimed towards strengthening of civil society’s influence in the public policies creation process. The regranting scheme will be realized through 2 calls for awarding small grants to civil society organizations in total amount of 100.000
Read more →On 26-28 April in Tirana, the latest edition of the Civil Society Forum Series of the Western Balkans series took place, bringing together CSOs from Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, and policy makers from the region and EU. The Civil Society Forum Tirana 2017 builds upon the achievements of the Civil
Read more →On 26 April in Podgorica, a group of 198 CSOs started an initiative calling on the Prime Minister Duško Marković to withdraw the draft Law on NGOs and Law on Games of chance, both currently in parliamentary proceedings, as they are considered to be damaging to the civil sector. The CSO Coalition “Saradnjom do Cilja”
Read more →CSOs have launched a campaign against the decision by the Hungarian government to crack down on foreign-funded organizations. The legislative proposal that was tabled in the Hungarian parliament on April 7 would force NGOs receiving more than 25.000 USD per year from outside Hungary to register as “civic organizations receiving foreign funds”. According to the
Read more →According to the recently published Monitoring Matrix Report for Macedonia 2016, Macedonian civil society, despite the challenges of the prolonged and deepened political crisis in 2016, continued to work on a solid legal framework. However, the increased inconsistencies in the implementation of the legal framework resulted in setting back the potential for development and sustainability of
Read more →On April 13, the Croatian Government adopted the Report on the Financing of Civil Society Organizations and Programs from Public Sources, prepared by the Office for Cooperation with NGOs. In 2015, a total of 224.396.358 EU have been allocated from all public sources at national and local levels for the programs and projects of CSOs,
Read more →On 28 April, Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai announced the launch of FOAA Online!, a web-based legal research tool billed as the world’s most user-friendly compilation of legal arguments on assembly and association rights. The ready-made legal arguments, which are based on international law, standards and principles, will assist lawyers, activists and judges involved in freedom
Read more →On 16 March, the CONT committee presented a draft report on budgetary control of financing NGOs from the EU budget. In general, the report calls for a greater accountability of funds granted to CSOs and for a better cohesion between different DGs of the European Commission, which use various evaluation criteria when it comes to grants.
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