There is a considerable number of funding sources available to CSOs in Montenegro, but the total amounts of money on offer are modest. The Needs Assessment Report focuses on each country’s specific information gathering and analysis of the institutional areas that need to be strengthened. The report also highlights the capabilities of the country’s CSOs. This assessment allows for each country to make a more tailored strategy to apply to better support the CSOs.
View moreAlbania is unusual in not requiring a minimum endowment for the registration of foundations, considerably easing their establishment. The study aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of civil society in Albania 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.
View moreThe institutionalization of civil society-Government cooperation in Croatia began with the establishment of the GOfCNGOs in 1998. The Needs Assessment Report focuses on the country’s specific information gathering and analysis of the institutional areas that need to be strengthened. The report also highlights the capabilities of the country’s CSOs. This assessment allows for each country to make a more tailored strategy to apply to better support the CSOs.
View moreThe legal framework CSOs in Macedonia is defined by the Law on Citizen Associations and Foundations passed in 1998. The Needs Assessment Report focuses on the country’s specific information gathering and analysis of the institutional areas that need to be strengthened. The report also highlights the capabilities of the country’s CSOs. This assessment allows for each country to make a more tailored strategy to apply to better support the CSOs.
View moreThe Inception Report describes the progress made within the Project’s first few months. The Report goes into detail on accomplishments, challenges and future endeavors. The report also gives an overview of the staff and office locations.
View moreThere are many formal and informal NGO networks in BiH, organized based on sub-sector interest (e.g. Environment, youth and women) or geographical location. The Needs Assessment Report focuses on the country’s specific information gathering and analysis of the institutional areas that need to be strengthened. The report also highlights the capabilities of the country’s CSOs. This assessment allows for each country to make a more tailored strategy to apply better.
View moreWith the adoption of a new Law on Foundations in February 2008, the legal framework in Turkey governing the operations of all CSOs, including associations, short-term “platforms,” and foundations, has been significantly improved and brought in line with international standards for enabling civil society activity.
View moreThe Needs Assessment Report focuses on the country’s specific information gathering and analysis of the institutional areas that need to be strengthened. The report also highlights the capabilities of the country’s CSOs. This assessment allows for each country to make a more tailored strategy to apply to better support the CSOs.
View morePlanning has been done in detail from September 2010 until February 2011.
View morePlanning has been done in detail from September 2010 until February 2011.
View morePlanning has been done in detail from September 2010 until February 2011.
View moreThe Needs Assessment Report focuses on each country’s specific information gathering and analysis of the institutional areas that need to be strengthened. The report also highlights the capabilities of the country’s CSOs. This assessment allows for each country to make a more tailored strategy to apply to better support the CSOs.
View moreThis report gives an account of the project activities conducted during the period from mid-August 2009 to the end of February 2010. Project implementation started in mid-August 2009. National-level activities are coordinated by a so-called TA Desk in each beneficiary country (two offices in Turkey). Local Advisory Groups (LAGs) consisting of stakeholder representatives assist in setting priorities and elaborating work plans within the context of the overall project ToR. At the regional level, project activities are supported by and coordinated by an office in Sarajevo.
View moreThis report’s overall purpose is to provide a basis for refining TACSO’s programme support to both civil societies and government authorities of the IPA countries for establishing the full range of institutional arrangements necessary for the sustainable development of effective civil society. To this end, the report concludes by identifying priorities for strengthening the process in each country and by making specific recommendations to the TACSO project in general and TACSO country teams, in particular, to support the process in practical ways.
View moreEven though in June 2011 there were early parliamentary elections, neither radical institutional changes particularly changes in the policies towards CSOs did not occur nor they are expected shortly. This is due to the victory of the already leading party (VMRO – DPMNE); thus, the prime minister remained the same, and the Government, although with some minor changes in its officials, kept the general course of their policies and the attitude towards the CSOs.
View moreA comparative summary of the eight-country CSO needs assessments. This report’s overall purpose is to provide a basis for refining TACSO’s programme of capacity development support to civil society organizations in the IPA countries, both at the regional and national levels. The report is also intended to equip local and international development agencies, as well as governments in the IPA countries, with the information necessary to instigate further appropriate and responsive organizational support and capacity-building actions for CSOs and civil society more generally.
View moreThe 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 moreThe report presents an update of a similar report carried out in 2009, not a comprehensive new research. Information provided is based on the desktop research of relevant documentation, including legal and financial legislation, policy documents, previous civil society mappings and research, insight into the Registry of CSOs, input produced by the Local Advisory Group (LAG) members as well as inputs provided by representatives of 48 CSOs during the consultation sessions organized in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Niš in mid-September 2011. Additionally, the report includes preliminary data of the current baseline survey on the CSO sector in Serbia in the period of August – September 2011.
View moreThe IPA Region CSO Environment and Capacities: Update of the Regional Needs Assessment and Recommendations Report represents a compilation of individual country Needs Assessment Reports from the Western Balkan countries and Turkey. Even though there are differences and specificities in the CSO environment and capacities among the countries covered by the project Technical Assistance for Civil Society Organisations (TACSO) in the Western Balkans and Turkey, a substantive regional perspective or unification may still be observed in all aspects that include the legal framework governing the registration and operations of the CSOS, government – CSO relations, government funding for the CSOs, human resources, external relations and material and financial capacities.
View moreThis study is one of eight country needs assessments of civil society capacities conducted as a preliminary activity within the EC-funded project Technical Assistance to Civil Society (TACSO) in IPA Countries (EuropeAid/127427/C/SER/Multi/5 – additional services). The study aims to provide an update on the comprehensive assessment of civil society in Bosnia and Herzegovina that was conducted in 2009. This updated study also contains new developments in the environment in which civil society operates. The study provides insight into the strengths and weaknesses of civil society, its impacts to date and the challenges it faces to its further development.
View moreThis study is one of eight country needs assessments of civil society capacities conducted as a preliminary activity within the EC-funded project Technical Assistance to Civil Society (TACSO) in IPA Countries (EuropeAid/127427/C/SER/Multi/5 – additional services). The revised needs assessment aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of civil society in Albania and the relevant working environment, including its strengths, weaknesses, and its impacts to date, as well as the challenges it faces in its further development.
View moreThis study is one of eight country needs assessments of civil society capacities conducted as a preliminary activity within the EC-funded project Technical Assistance to Civil Society (TACSO) in IPA Countries. The study aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of civil society in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 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.
View moreThis study is one of eight country needs assessments of civil society capacities conducted as a preliminary activity within the EC-funded project Technical Assistance to Civil Society (TACSO) in IPA Countries. The study is to provide a comprehensive assessment of civil society in Turkey 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.
View moreOver the past years, CSOs have been recognized as an indispensable part of the democratization process by public organizations and other actors. However, the definition of civil society and civil society organizations (CSO) is still absent from the relevant legislation and policy documents. One of the major obstacles to freedom of association in Turkey is that the legal framework only recognizes forms of association and foundation and no other forms of organized civil action are recognized as legal entities.
View moreThis report presents an update of the similar TACSO report carried out in 2011. The basis for the update also came from desktop research of relevant documentation, legal and financial legislation, policy documents, previous civil society mapping and recent online research (137 CSOs, networks and FPAs) as well as direct inputs provided by 51 representatives of CSOs, donor organizations, institutions and experts during the wide consultation process.
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 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 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.
View moreThe report aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of the civil society in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the environment that the civil society works in, including its strengths and weaknesses and the challenges it faces in its further development. The report is based upon a combination of desk research embracing all relevant documentation, including legal and financial legislation applicable to civil society, situation analyses, policy documents and the Monitoring Matrix Report for Civil Society Development 2015 for Macedonia.
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