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CoE: Consultation on the Guidelines for Meaningful Civil Participation in Political Decision-making (Deadline: 04.09.2016)

The Council of Europe is preparing guidelines to help ensure meaningful civil participation in political decision-making in its member states. Before finalising these guidelines, the European Committee on Democracy and Governance (CDDG) and the Conference of International Non-Governmental Organisations (Conference of INGOs) are organising a wide public consultation on the draft text. This consultation seeks

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CfP: Networking Grants, Kosovo (Deadline: N/A)

Kosovo Civil Society Foundation (KCSF), with the purpose of strengthening civil society’s role in drafting and implementing policies affecting the communities and general public through the promotion of joint activities with partners, provides financial support for CSOs membership in regional or international networks. The following criteria will be taken into consideration: Benefit that these organizations,

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CfP: Canada Fund for Local Initiatives 2016-2017, Kosovo (Deadline: 13.09.2016)

The Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) provides direct funding assistance to community groups, non-government organizations, people’s organizations and in exceptional cases, international NGOs, and government institutions for small projects addressing governance, democracy, capacity-building, economic, and other social development issues. The call for proposals seeks projects that are of a maximum duration of four months

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Revisiting the Journey to the Sustainable Development Goals

It’s been almost one year since heads of state and government adopted ‘Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ – the ambitious agenda which contains 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) and 169 targets during a special session of the UN General Assembly on 25 September 2015. The SDGs were the culmination of four

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Call for Contributions: 2016 CPDE Global Synthesizing Research

The CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) is currently implementing a three-year programme entitled “Civil Society Continuing Campaign for Effective Development.” The programme aims to make concrete contributions to global development by promoting development effectiveness through concrete CSO action, utilising a mix of approaches in policy advocacy, engagement, outreach, and capacity development at global, regional,

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The Role of Blended Finance in the 2030 Agenda: Setting Out an Analytical Approach

The potential role of blended finance – the use of public-sector funds to mobilise private investments for the financing of development projects – has gained increasing interest and recognition from international policy dialogues and recent UN agreements. This includes the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Donors are already pledging to scale up their efforts to

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Survey on European Union Delegations’ Engagement With Civil Society (Deadline: 10.09.2016)

CONCORD has shared a survey on EU delegations’ engagement with civil society, which aims to assess the quality of the relationship between civil society organizations and EU Delegations. More specifically, it looks at how EU Delegations are supporting an enabling environment for civil society at field level (for example by fostering CSOs’ participation in development

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Monitoring Matrix on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development – Regional Report for 2015

BCSDN, in partnership with European Center for Non-profit Law (ECNL), has published the third Regional Report on Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development in Enlargement Countries, presenting the regional state of play of civil society in 2015 and highlighting the priorities for intervention by national and EU institutions at the regional level towards creating a more enabling environment

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БЦСДН бара практикант/ка за поддршка на програмски активности со солидно познавање на албански и/или турски јазик

БЦСДН бара заинтересирани кандидати за позицијата Практикант/ка кој ќе ги поддржува програмските активности на Извршната Канцеларија на БЦСДН. Практикантот ќе извршува активности во рамки на…

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CfA: The Role of Policy Analysts and Investigative Journalists in Safeguarding Democracy – Zadar, Croatia (Deadline: 02.09.2016)

TACSO People to People is supporting the following event organized by GONG: The Role of Policy Analysts and Investigative Journalists in Safeguarding Democracy taking place in Zadar, Croatia on 17-21 October 2016. The event “The Role of Policy Analysts and Investigative Journalists in Safeguarding Democracy” represents the fourth iteration of GONG’s Regional School of Policy Analysis, bringing together researchers-activists

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