News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The first Call for Standard Projects of the Interreg IPA CBC Italy-Albania-Montenegro Programme has been launched and it will finance cooperation projects in Italy (Puglia and Molise), Albania and Montenegro with a budget of EUR 25 million. The Programmed, co-financed by the European Union through IPA, has a total budget of EUR 92 million and
Read more →The IPA FPA project “Balkan Civil Society Acquis – Strengthening the Advocacy and Monitoring Potential and Capacities of CSOs”, implemented in the countries of Western Balkans and Turkey by the members of the BCSDN and supported by the European Commission and the Balkan Trust for Democracy, has come to an end after four years of
Read more →In the run up to the Italian Summit on the Western Balkans scheduled to take place in Trieste on 12 July 2017, the International Conference, organized by IFRI, CIFE and CFA on 5th April in Rome, brought together a number of European experts to reflect on the challenges facing the EU and its enlargement towards the
Read more →On 30-31 March, CSOs from around the world gathered in Bangkok as part of CPDE’s Breaking Ground and Taking Root: The Istanbul Principles @ 7 event.…
Read more →The new Monitoring Matrix 2016 Reports on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development for all seven countries are now available on the MM platform, some of them accompanied for the first time by a visual presentation of the findings. The reports present the developments in EE in 2016, outlining the key conclusions and recommendations for
Read more →According to the findings of CIVICUS’s latest report People Power under Attack: Findings from the CIVICUS Monitor, only 3% of people live in countries where space for civic activism – or civic space – is truly open. Based upon monitoring of 195 countries, CIVICUS finds that people in 106 countries face serious threats when organizing,
Read more →At the Government session on 30 March, without any consultation with civil society and with no prior notification, the Montenegrin Government adopted the draft amendments to the Law on Games of Chance which stipulates termination of the Fund for financing CSO projects. The CSO Coalition “Saradnjom do cilja” invites all CSOs in Montenegro to oppose
Read more →More than 100 CSOs have warned that “closing the eyes” of the European Parliament on the transparency of lobbying could jeopardize the improvement of the Lobbying registry. Insisting that the European Parliament must do more to improve the transparency of lobbying, 101 CSOs have sent an open letter to the EP, warning MEPs that the
Read more →For two consecutive years, global development aid has increased, according to the latest figures released today by the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC). The 2016 statistics report an increase of 8.9% (USD 142.6 billion). However, 1.8% of this increase actually stayed in the donor country, including EU Member States, with relatively little effect on poverty
Read more →The IPA FPA project “Balkan Civil Society Acquis – Strengthening the Advocacy and Monitoring Potential and Capacities of CSOs”, implemented in the countries of Western Balkans and…
Read more →CIVICUS World Alliance for Citizen Participation (CIVICUS) issued a report People Power under Attack: Findings from the CIVICUS Monitor. According to the latest findings, only…
Read more →After a long period of stagnation and decline in democratic governance across the 29 countries of Nations in Transit, 2016 was marked with populist successes that raised…
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