This training programme for CSOs in Turkey and Western Balkans aimed to highlight the importance of promoting and protecting human rights and gender equality by developing and implementing strategies, activities and practices that promote human rights, dignity, equality, non-discrimination, and social justice. The training also aimed to strengthen the organizational development of CSOs to internalise an inclusive perspective and HRBA by taking into account the principle of the intersectionality of rights. Additionally, it encouraged the adoption of a rights-based perspective and gender equality in all CSO activities, in particular humanitarian aid, giving-based activities, service provision in emergency response.
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.
View moreOn the 23rd and 24th of June, TACSO Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina organized a conference on the topic of „Corporate Social Responsibility for Community Development – A Way Forward for Civil Society in Bosnia and Herzegovina“, aiming to enhance mutual understanding and practice of corporative social responsibility (CSR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina through the involvement of all actors from academia, businesses, governmental institutions and civil society organizations.
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 initial group of Civil Society Organisations (CSO), to establish the BiH SECO ETE mechanism in the process of EU integration, on December 18/19 2014, organised the workshop event called "Participation possibilities of CSOs from the sectors of environment, energy, and transport in the programming and monitoring processes of IPA II funds in Bosnia and Herzegovina", within the framework of TACSO BH project support to initiatives, networks, alliances, platforms, and coalitions of CSOs in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The workshop gathered more than 40 participants, representatives of CSOs from the entire territory of BiH (Federation of BiH (FBiH), Republic of Srpska, Brcko District) aiming to develop mechanisms of communication and cooperation in the process of IPA II programming and monitoring in the sectors of environment, energy and transport.
View moreThe TACSO BiH office organised a training programme on Project Cycle Management implemented by TACSO by VESTA as a direct response to the needs assessment of civil society in BiH. According to the findings of the needs assessment of NGOs in BiH for the period 2013-2015, the work plan of TACSO BiH for 2015, and the systematization of the most common questions received by the TACSO BiH Help desk, it was found that a large number of organisations operating in smaller communities have very limited access to technical assistance, as well as a lack of knowledge and skills to successfully manage projects based on EU applications with a focus on the logical framework and budget.
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 moreLEDnet network and PLOD Centre Bihać with the support of TACSO BIH, under the framework of support to networks, initiatives, coalitions, unions and CSOs platforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina that within their mission promote the continuation of P2P activities implemented by TACSO BH Office, organized on 19.10.2016. in Bihac a conference with the title: “Role and importance of LEDnet network in the process of local economic development and creating a better business environment in BiH”.
View moreThe manual presents an overview of digital tools commonly used by CSOs each including a brief description, the purpose and the instructions, with additional resources to be explored for further learning. This Manual has sprung from both the ongoing need of civil society to digitalize and use ITC technologies in their work and the COVID-19 pandemic situation and emergency response to it, which has redefined the working environment for CSOs, who now have to work remotely both as organizations and in reaching out to their members and beneficiaries.
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