News and updates from BCSDN and the region
BCSDNs member, the Centre for Information Service, Co-operation and Development of NGOs (CNVOS) from Slovenia, has recently started a media campaign to encourage Slovenian citizens to donate it 0,5% (#nulapet) of income tax to CSOs. The aim of the campaign is to encourage citizens, 60% of which do not donate 0.5% tax, and by doing this,
Read more →The Civic Solidarity Platform (CSP) – a network of over 80 human rights NGOs from Europe, the former Soviet Union, and North America – organized the 7th OSCE Parallel Civil Society Conference in Hamburg on 6-7 December 2016, ahead of the annual OSCE Ministerial Council meeting taking place in this city on 8-9 December 2016.
Read more →Together the European Union and its Member States provide over 50 % of all global development aid, making them the world’s largest donors of official development assistance (ODA). In 2015, the EU’s collective ODA amounted to EUR 68 billion. As one of the oldest external activities of the European Communities, development policy was originally focused
Read more →How will the US development cooperation look like under the next administration? USAID is still waiting for the transition team and no one knows who will make up Tramp’s landing team. Officials expected that the new administration would arrive last month, and that a bulk of the transition effort would be spent on in-person briefings
Read more →The regional expert meeting was organized by a core group of the Global NPO Coalition on FATF in London on September 21, 2016. The goal of the meeting was to address the evaluation process from a government, nonprofit and FATF perspective in light of the recent revision of FATF Recommendation 8 (R8) and its Interpretative
Read more →The project partners of the Global Standard for CSO Accountability met from the 5th-8th of December in Uganda to finalize the Standard content and further…
Read more →BCSDNs member, the Centre for Information Service, Co-operation and Development of NGOs (CNVOS) from Slovenia, has recently started a media campaign to encourage Slovenian citizens…
Read more →On the occasion of the partnership meeting to take place in Kampala, Uganda this week, partners of the Global Standard for CSO Accountability met civil…
Read more →The Western Balkan countries do not have an advocacy strategy aimed at the relevant target groups in the EU. The Advocacy Strategy for the EU Integration of the Western Balkans – Guidelines (ASWB), developed by eight Western Balkan and Visegrad Group think tanks, is the first initiative of the kind. This document aims at supporting
Read more →Europe has seen a surge in recent years of support for populist and nationalist movements – from Spain to the UK to Turkey. The reasons are manifold and complex, but are driven to a large degree by the belief that traditional democratic institutions. For example, Citizens from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Romania are the
Read more →TUSEV recently published the Individual Giving and Philanthropy in Turkey report, which presents comprehensive and up to date data on perception on philanthropy, trends and motivations in individual giving in Turkey as well as providing a comparison on the change in the understanding of philanthropy and giving practices in the last decade. According to the
Read more →On 3rd December, in Tirana, CSOs and government representatives will meet at the National Conference: “Boasting Towards a Better Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development in Albania”, to discuss the most problematic issues regarding legal and fiscal obligations for CSOs and provide recommendations for further amendments of taxation laws and bylaws in order to ensure a
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