The Federation of Caucasian Associations (KAFFED) organized local meetings to strengthen their advocacy campaign and monitoring of the inclusion of the demands submitted to the Parliamentary Compromise Commission for New Constitution by Caucasian Communities. KAFFED met with its constituencies with the support of 61 local member CSOs and shared the details of the advocacy campaign via “Constitution Meetings”.
View moreProcess of strategic planning for Network for Building Peace, 28. – 30.3.2012., Hotel Bosnia, Sarajevo. Network for Building Peace (the Network) is aiming towards the comprehensive renewal of social and economic life in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to long-term enhancement of the whole society to deal with differences and conflicts in a constructive and non-violent way, in that way creating a framework for joint, coordinated activities of several civil society organizations, local government, business sector, media and governmental institutions.
View moreTACSO BiH completed Second Educational Cycle on PCM/ Project Proposal Writing-towards domestic/local sources of funding based on using a logical frame approach (EU application procedure for mostly rural-based and less experienced civil society organizations from all over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
View moreWithin the scope of sharing experiences with civil society in the Western Balkans, TACSO supported a study visit to Croatia to examine the mechanisms for the participation of disadvantaged groups in the constitution-building process. The study visit was designed as a part of the project “The Disadvantaged as an actor in the Constitutional Process” which is planned to be executed with the collaboration of ÖZEV, Öz-Ge Der and Cappadocia Women and Youth Association to ensure the active participation of women, children and people with disabilities to the constitutional process and related laws/regulations/statutes on a common platform.
View moreWomen’s Network Bosnia and Herzegovina in partnership with the TACSO BiH project implemented a conference on the process of strategic dialogue „Together we are stronger“ held on 21st and 22nd June 2012 in Sarajevo. This partnership event/conference was attended by 56 participants from 43 women’s organizations coming from 20 different municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
View moreAssessment Report on Social Entrepreneurship in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been produced to explore all the aspects of social entrepreneurship in regard to the legal framework, cases of good practices, cooperation and connections of social entrepreneurship and civil society organisations especially from the aspect of their sustainability as well as mapping of the key actors, both domestic and international which are active in the.
View moreTACSO developed the concept for this report in the spring of 2012 and the report was researched and written by the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL) in the summer and autumn of 2012. The report covers the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey and focuses on national policies as well as regional dimensions and mechanisms for cooperation between the two sectors.
View moreThe CSO Leadership Training for Roma Youth Organizations was held in Antalya on 11-14 June 2012. Twelve participants participated in the training from different organizations from the provinces; Edirne, Hatay, Ankara and Istanbul. The participants gained practice on issues such as civil society, advocacy, and gender and intra-organizational democracy. The existing youth group called “Turkish Roma Youths” established a joint action plan with the participants from other groups in the training. Necessary steps were taken for organizing joint studies in the future.
View moreOverview of the financial support from BiH public institutions to NGOs in 2011. A series of studies on public confidence in various institutions conducted in recent years indicate, among other things, the low public trust in Non-Governmental Organisations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. There are frequent complaints in the media about the non-governmental sector, which did not bring the desired changes while simultaneously allocation of substantial funds for this purpose is present from both foreign donations as well as from the public budgets.
View moreThe basic purpose of the publication ‘Annual Financial Report of Organisations of Civil Society in Bosnia and Herzegovina – 2011’ is to present to the broad public the results of the equated survey that the Center for Civil Society Promotion (CPCD) has conducted among domestic non-government organizations (NGOs) with the basic purpose to collect relevant information on main sources, height and ways of spending of funds that NGOs have used to finance their regular statutory activities in 2011.
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