The Albanian CSO sector is relatively underdeveloped. There are around 1600 registered CSOs, but roughly 450 of them are active (2011 surveys). Most active CSOs are located in Tirana which also has local offices and is active at the community level. In general, the membership base of associations is limited.
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 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 moreRegional progress report on the results of the National Activity Plans agreed upon during the conference on “Cooperation between Local Self-Governmental Institutions and CSOs in the Western Balkans and Turkey”, held in Bečići in February 2013.
View moreSurvey on Social Media and Civil Society Organisations in Croatia conducted in collaboration with the agency Lude ribe Ltd and EU Technical Assistance for Civil Society Organisations (TACSO) in IPA countries, Croatia Office, on 567 organizations, foundations, organizations and civic initiatives in Croatia.
View moreThis report is prepared based on the perceptions and outcomes from interviews and questionnaires responded to by civil society organizations (CSOs) and media outlets in Kosovo. TACSO press clipping reports are also used to analyze the level of presence of CSOs in the media.
View moreFollowing the first Value Added Tax (VAT) Guidelines that were produced in June 2011, this VAT guideline is now updated to reflect the changes, if any, in each of the countries. The biggest change is seen in Albania, which in June 2011 was not included in the first set of Guidelines because at that time it was not possible to provide adequate guidelines on the VAT procedures in the country. Due to the joint efforts of the Albanian civil society, TACSO Albania and the European Union Delegation (EUD) in Albania, instructions were issued for VAT exemptions that target Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) funded through the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA).
View moreIn June 2013 TACSO organized the workshop “Connecting the Links – Capacities and Relations between CSOs and the Media” in Prishtine. The purpose of the workshop is seen as a first step into connecting the direction of the link. Namely, the intention was to have a meeting with resource people from CSOs in the region and the media that will help provide input so that TACSO can create a strategy or a guideline on CSOs and the media, which can be used in the future.
View moreImportant activities under these components are the capacity building (CB) and technical assistance (TA) components. According to Work Plan for the period 2011-2013 TACSO BH office conducted CB and TA activities for CSOs from rural and remote areas who were applying to domestic sources of funding without success, CSOs applying to the domestic sources of funding in 11 municipalities included in UNDP LOD III project and for projects implemented under call related to Issue-based networks (IPA 2009).
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