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Participation

Meeting on public participation with local public authorities in Olanesti, Moldova

The event provided an overview of potential areas of cooperation for CSOs and local authorities and referred to the existing legal frameworks for local level cooperation.

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Funding and Philanthropy

Draft Law on state grants prepared in Georgia

. The draft law defines the potential sources of funding for CSOs, beneficiaries, qualifying requirements, issues in relation to conflict of interest.

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Funding and Philanthropy

Conference on public funding for CSOs held in Baku, Azerbaijan

The event provided a comparative analysis of international experience in distributing state grants to CSOs and convened some thirty participants: representatives of the newly established NGO Council, MPs and civil society representatives.

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ECNL team meets with the NGO Council members in Azerbaijan

ECNL shared lessons from the Hungarian and Croatian state funding of CSOs.

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Action for Civic Space

Assessment report of the legal framework affecting NGOs in the Republic of Cyprus

Measures to design the next steps of a longer-term reform process.

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Participation

Call for consultation on the draft of the Code of Good Practice in Croatia

ECNL worked closely with local partners in development of the Code.

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Participation

Armenian government adopts amendments to support cooperation with CSOs

The amendment of the Charter is an important development as it sets the ground for the adoption of the Code of Consultation and Cooperation of the Ministry.

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Participation

ECNL publishes a Study on Public Participation in Macedonia

The study outlines concrete recommendations for legislative reform to ensure that citizens and CSOs right to participate are not only guaranteed but effectively exercised and implemented.

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Security/CT

Meeting on Non-profit Sector Accountability and Transparency in Brussels

Improving transparency of NPOs at the EU level has been one of the Commission’s key objectives in the counter terrorist financing context.

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