The vast majority of CSOs in Macedonia continue to be dependent on international donor funds. Collectively, foreign funding streams remain the single largest source of financial support for CSOs. The EU funds, principally through the Instrument for Pre‐accession Assistance (IPA), are now the main focus of interest for CSOs. Other larger civil society supporters are Swedish Development Cooperation (SDC) and USAID.
View moreThe amount of funds allocated to CSOs and the funds available to domestic institutions vary depending on the administrative level in question. The municipalities have always been the biggest donors, while the state level has the most limited funds for financial support to CSOs.
View moreThis Needs Assessment Report (NAR) treats Civil Society in Kosovo from the perspective of a competing sector in the region, to reach European standards. Though the distance is long, the aspirations are evident and the first steps have already been taken. Through elaborating on relations between Civil Society and Institutions, and Civil Society and its Constituencies, NAR intends to reveal and analyze the challenges of the CSOs in advancing their capacities and their role in the society and policymaking processes in the country, as well as in transparency and accountability of the institutions.
View moreThe report is prepared as a follow-up to the Quality Management Systems Conference organized at the regional level by TACSO in 2011. It aims to introduce to Civil Society Organizations in Turkey the different models that organizations worldwide have developed to be accountable and transparent and improve the quality of work they are performing.
View moreInitiative Network Citizens for Europe with the support of TACSO BIH organised two thematical and one multisectoral workshop. The first workshop „Network Communication“ was held on 18 July 2014 in Sarajevo. The second workshop „Strategic and operational positioning“ was held on 2 September 2014 In Teslic. The third workshop „The progress of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the European Union – Identification of areas for sectoral cooperation between governmental institutions, NGOs and other stakeholders“ was held on 11 December 2014, as a final network activity.
View moreThe Conference held in Tirana, Albania on 6-9 May 2014 to introduce the document “Guidelines for EU Support to Civil Society in Enlargement Countries 2014-2020” brought together EU institutions, government and CSO representatives from each country. At the conference, plans were made to set country targets for civil society development in each candidate country in the context of EU Guidelines and to monitor progress made towards these targets. TACSO Turkey organised a one-and-a-half day-long workshop on 17-18 December 2014 together with TÜSEV, STGM and Sivil Düşün EU Programme to have CSOs discuss the outcome framework. There were 50 participants in the workshop representing 39 civil society organizations.
View moreTACSO BIH in cooperation with TACSOby VESTA in the period October – December 2015, realised serial of one-day training/consultations for a total of 26 CSOs in the area of „Organizational development with a focus on accountability and transparency”. The purpose of the capacity-building intervention was to strengthen the organizational development of each particular participating CSO, to ensure sharing of joint experience in mastering and understanding concepts, gaining practical skills in developing training outputs applicable to their organizational model of the work.
View moreThe study aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of civil society in Serbia and the environment that it works in, including its strengths and weaknesses, its impacts to date and the challenges it faces to its further development. The study is based upon a combination of desk research embracing all relevant documentation, including legal and financial legislation applicable to civil society, previous civil society analyses and evaluations, policy documents and country–specific academic literature, in-depth interviews, a survey of the general population and TACSO survey of CSOs.
View moreThe creation of partnerships and strengthening the networking of civil society organizations is one of the priorities of the TACSO project. Therefore, in the period July 2015 – February 2016, the Macedonian TACSO office and the resource center in Macedonia, TACSO by the Macedonian Center for International Cooperation (MCIC) conducted a comprehensive assessment of the needs of the Macedonian networks which should serve as a basis for the next steps for capacity building for networking and partnership.
View moreThis Needs Assessment Report (NAR) treats civil society in Kosovo from the perspective of a key element in building a democratic state and an important contributor to Kosovo’s aspirations of becoming a member of the European Union. Despite Kosovo is still at the initial stages of this process, Kosovar civil society seeks to reach the best European standards not only in its internal governance but also in its relations with public institutions. Through elaborating on relations between civil society and public institutions, its constituencies and the general public, NAR intends to reveal and analyze the challenges of the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in advancing their capacities and their role in society and policymaking processes in the country, as well as in transparency and accountability of the institutions.
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