The group discussed articles of the draft relating to the status and protection of asylum seekers. Turkey has been lacking a functioning asylum system and relevant legislation. The Ministry of Interior has prepared a draft asylum law to define Turkey’s asylum system in line with the European Union policies. This draft law is on the agenda of the Ministry, and it is expected that the final draft will be submitted to the Parliament after being reviewed by the Prime Ministry.
View moreWorld Disability Union Assembly was realized in Istanbul WOW Hotel on October 22, 2011 with the participation of 120 representatives from 65 countries and the support of TACSO. The establishment of the Union was ratified in the Assembly and both the Management Mechanism and Specialty Commissions were selected. Furthermore, through the sessions held with the participation of several CSOs and representatives of public institutions, issues like ’’Universal Standards for People with Disabilities’’, ’’Universal Design in Architecture’’, “Accessibility in Terms of UN Legislation’’, ’’Home and Museum Without Hindrances’’ were discussed.
View moreInitiating its second phase, the project Technical Assistance to capacity building of the Civil Society Organisations in the Western Balkan and Turkey, TACSO organized a joint regional conference with EU DG Enlargement on Reflections and Elaborations of IPA CSF Future Perspectives and of TACSO 2 Planning for the Local Advisory Group (LAGs) members, European Union Programming Committee (EUPC), European Union (EU) and European Union Delegation (EUD) representatives as well as TACSO representatives from 24 – 26 October 2011 in Pristina.
View moreThe survey is a follow-up research aimed at establishing changes that took place since the last research in 2010 and at the same time identifying new circumstances related to the current social and economic context in BiH in light of TACSO’s sphere of interest. This time the research was expanded with the method of in-depth interviews with representatives of non-governmental organizations.
View moreTACSO BiH provided technical assistance at the workshop session on Networking, Coalitions and Resource Centres during the Investment Fair “Bosna River Basin” in the organization of CSO TOPEER from Doboj on 20 October 2011. The session was the frame for debate with participants from CSOs/CSO networks, Doboj Municipality representatives, business environment representatives and journalists.
View moreTACSO BiH made further contact network building related to technical assistance for follow-up activities for the presentation of the Europe for Citizens Program, following the five initial information sessions/workshops held in Banja Luka, Sarajevo, Brčko and Mostar in the period from November 29 to December 22, 2011 period.
View moreTACSO BiH provided technical assistance to LACON (Legal Anti Corruption Network) in BiH at the first training/workshop for capacity building of network members held on 22 February 2012 in Hotel Herzegovina, Ilidža. The purpose of the support was to assist in the following: establishment of the LACON network and facilitation of action planning.
View moreTACSO BiH Local Advisory Group and TACSO BiH Team visited the Croatian Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs, TACSO Croatia and Council for Civil Society Development and discussed the concepts for organizing the NGO days in Croatia mechanisms of the Council, models and transferable practices to BiH.
View moreTACSO BiH provided technical assistance in designing and delivering Strategic Planning for Network Stariji brat starija sestra (Older Brother Older Sister-OBOS) on November 2-3, 2011. The purpose of the intervention was to assist the Network in making important decisions on further steps of Older Brother Older Sister regarding the following: (1) the pros and cons of the Network's formal registration, (2) defining the work location and how the Network Secretariat should function, (3) defining membership conditions, (4) defining responsibilities and obligations of Network members, and (5) defining active membership monitoring mechanisms.
View moreThe education cycle aimed to enhance project proposal writing skills of civil society organizations representatives located out of bigger centers to increase the capacity of rural CSOs in understanding administrative and evaluation criteria for the selection of applications and to increase the number of small and rural CSOs to be able to diversify their fundraising portfolio.
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