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Participation

Study Tour for Azerbaijan governmental delegation in Budapest

The study visit provided international expertise on cooperation mechanisms and European and Hungarian best practices on regulating NGO work, sources of NGO income and tax benefits and mechanisms of NGO-government cooperation.

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Action for Civic Space

International workshop on CSO legal framework in Cavtat, Croatia

ECNL and ICNL worked closely with USAID/Croatia and DECIM on the event: helped identify experts, facilitated workshops and delivered presentations on NIS and CEE experiences.

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Action for Civic Space

NGO law conference in Macedonia

ECNL supported the Civil Platform of Macedonia in organizing the event and held several presentations and workshops.

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Participation

Seminar on White Paper draft held in Azerbaijan

The White Paper focused on participation and public funding of CSOs.

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Funding and Philanthropy

Conference on public funding in Bucharest, Romania

The conference focused on public financing of NGOs and covered all the main issues related to this broad topic, including the various financing forms and mechanisms, procedural issues, central and local level examples.

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Action for Civic Space

Serbian draft Law on Associations met with approval by state institutions

ECNL will continue to work with the Ministry and members of the working group in efforts to address remaining outstanding issues in the draft, before it is submitted to the Government.

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Action for Civic Space

ECNL facilitates Lithuanian working group to reform the NGO legal framework

The changes in the legislation should help to eliminate the collisions and gaps in the existing regulations and to ensure the sufficient basis for the sustainable development of Lithuanian NGOs.

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Action for Civic Space

ECNL publishes Brochure on the Croatian Law on Volunteering

The brochure aims to support the implementation of law by providing guidance for CSOs, volunteers and other Ministries in their activities related to promotion and engagement of volunteers.

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Funding and Philanthropy

International conference on social economy in Budapest

ECNL delivered a presentation on the experience of the new member states in developing and financing social enterprises.

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