News and updates from BCSDN and the region
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.
Read more →The Directory of Donors in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), developed by the Peacebuilding Networks (Mreže za izgradnju mira), is a guide on sources of funding for CSOs in BiH, but also in the region, i.e. the post-Yugoslav countries. This 11th update of the Directory, published recently, holds information about 574 donors and calls for projects
Read more →The International Human Rights Funders Group and Foundation Center recently published Advancing Human Rights: Update on Global Foundation Grantmaking, a report analyzing the who, what, where, and how of human rights philanthropy. The latest update provides an increasingly robust data set on human rights grantmaking around the world. The 729 foundations included in this edition made
Read more →At the session of the Government of the Republic of Croatia held on 13 April 2017, the Report on the Financing of Civil Society Organizations…
Read more →The specific objective of this call for proposals is to support civil society organisations 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 year, the CSO Open Days in Croatia will take place on 25 – 27 May. It is an opportunity for citizens to participate in numerous creative workshops, lectures, presentations and actions intended to inform them about various community projects and programmes, as well as possibilities for volunteering in the CSOs. The activities of CSOs
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