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8/3/2019 98-3 BCSDN PPP, TACSO Regional CSOs Networks Conf, 13th-14th Sarajevo
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TACSO Regional CSONetworks Conference
Regional Networks’ BestPractices & Challenges
13th-14th December, 2011
Sarajevo, BiH
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Balkan Civil Society
Development Network(BCSDN)
Lessons-learned & challenges in functioning & advocacy
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ID Card• Regional cross-
sectoral network(registered asfoundation)
• 15 CSD memberorganizations from 10countries of the Balkanregion
• Initiated in 2001• Executive Office based
in Skopje
3. Partnership meeting Feketic, Serbia - December 2003
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Vision
Sustainable peace, harmony andprosperity of societies in the Balkan
region.
MisionTo influence European and national
policies towards more enabling
environment for civil societydevelopment (CSDev) in order toensure sustainable and functioning
democracies in the Balkans.
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Strategic goals
1. Increased role of civil society bystrengthening its voice in policy- anddecision-making on national, regional
and EU level;2. Promoted civil dialogue between civil
society actors, state institutions and
the EU in order to influence publicpolicy;
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Strategic goals
3. Developed advocacy knowledge and skills of civil society actors as a basefor greater impact; and
4. Strengthened communication,coordination and cooperation (3Cs)between civil society actors in the
Balkan region.
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Activities 2001-2008
• Organization of 14 regional trainings onEU funding, lobbying, networking, civildialogue, coop with the business sector,
media etc.;• Support/organization to 29
exchange visits on
volunteering, projectdevelopment, etc.;
• Support/organization of 3 EU study
visits.
Civil dialogue training,Tirana, Albania – July 2007
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Activities 2001-2008
• Organization of 3 workshops forexchange of experience on EUintegration, decentralization, diaconal
practices;• Organization of a conference
on Bulgarian EU accession
experience;• Organization of on-the-job
training and help-desk.
Partnership and networking training
Feketic, Serbia – April 2006
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Activities 2009-2011Advocacy at the EU level• 3 Workshops & Policy Papers:
The Right to be Heard: The EU Enlargement
Policy and Civil Society in the Western Balkans,
Brussels ;The Missing Link: Development and Functioning
of Civil Dialogue;
Civil Society Lost in Translation?
Development Strategies & Practices in Support to CSDev in the Balkans
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Activities 2009-2011Advocacy at the EU level:• Manifesto for EP elections in May 2009:
“Do Not Forget the Future EU Citizens”
• Letters and meetings with EC for
better inclusion of local CSOs inprogramming and implementation of IPA
• 1st on-line regional civil dialogue database
(WB + 3 NMS)
• Special focus inBCSDN E-mail alerts
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Development of BCSDN
Phase 1 (2001-3): 3-year pilot programme
Phase 2 (2003-8): informal network
Phase 3 (2008-2011): formalized network
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Networking – WHY?
• Easier to achieve goals, esp. at Europeanlevel (aggregation of interests)
• Synergy, added-value
• Network enables access to European andglobal networks on strategic goals, e.g.CONCORD, ECAS, ENNA, APRODEV
• Information & knowledge exchange, newpartnerships and joint initiatives/projects
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Why advocacy? formalization?• Changes in external context (security
stabilization, slow political, economic andsocial changes, donor withdrawal);
• Changes in internal context(effectiveness and quality with lessresources, learning on other people’s
experience, EU integration “pull”);
• Clear structure, relations andinvolvement of members, visibility andidentification of common interest by
members
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External evaluation
“The programme’ssupport to the civil societydevelopment and networking is likely to have an
impact on its wider environment…The programmedelivered the potential for development of one of the
few successful regional initiatives. This is mostlybecause this network is an indigenous
phenomenon; driven by the problems, needs andpriorities of its membership and not necessarily
by those of external stakeholders, such as the EC.…and can therefore be considered a contributing
element in strengthening the democratic stabilization
process.” (EC, CARDS Ad-hoc Evaluation of CARDS Regional Programmes, December, 2008)
“The Network has made significant contributions to cross-border cooperation and is well positioned to build onfurther cooperation between members in the future.”
(INTRAC, External Evaluation, 2004-2007, October, 2007)
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Key lessons
• Legitimacy (who do we (re)present?);• Goals (what do we want to achieve?);
• Identification and definition of special
and joint interest (why do I need thenetwork? what is its added-value?);
• Sustainability (how are we going to
work on the long-term?);• Ownership (why should we do this and
for who?)
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What regional CSO networkscan offer to the EC
• Improved regional monitoring of Acquisareas & IPA programming
why? ownership, sustainability, policy
coherence, cost-effectiveness, impact
how? structured dialogue through existing
mechanism (EC Min Standards of Consultation &RCC structures)
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What regional CSO networkscan offer to the EC
• Communication & dissemination partnerwhy? realistic expectations by citizens,
accountability by the Gov for structure reforms
how? Inclusion in advisory bodies such as the
IPA CSF/TACO Programming Committee, IPA sectormonitoring committees etc.
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Contact
Balkan Civil Society Development NetworkExecutive Office
Nikola Parapunov Street n.n.
P.O. Box 551060-Skopje, Macedonia
Tel.: + 389 (0)2 30 88 990Fax: + 389 (0)2 30 65 298
E-mail: ExecutiveOffice@balkancsd.net
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