Evaluation of Support to the Civil Society in the Western Balkans
Author: Annika Nilsson
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9789158641556
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Author: Annika Nilsson
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9789158641556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Heidrun Ferrari
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781907919039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the early 1990s, the European Union (EU) has been the largest donor to the countries of the Western Balkans -- Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo. Since the late 1990s, the main focus of this engagement has been ensuring political and economic stabilization and the consolidation of democracy and civil society in the region. The need to address the needs and priorities of minority groups was early on identified as a key component in the process of ensuring long-term democratic stabilization. But as this study shows, despite this commitment, neither the CARDS nor the IPA development programme have succeeded in consistently addressing minority issues and supporting civil society organizations (CSOs) representing minority issues, or in having a profound, positive impact on the lives of marginalized minority groups in the region. This study provides a minority-rights focused assessment of the EU's principal development programmes for engagement in the region -- the Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development and Stabilisation (CARDS) programme (which ran from 2002 until 2006) and the current Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) programme. Drawing on policy and programme documents, as well as material collected by partner organizations in the region during workshops and interviews with minority CSOs, the report assesses the extent to which minority inclusion and protection forms a part of the current IPA strategy and programming, looking particularly at minority participation in public life, access to education and access to employment.
Author: Kristina Irion
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2018-10-20
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9633862604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis books draws a comparative balance of twenty years' international media assistance in the five countries of the Western Balkans. The central question was what happens to imported models when they are transposed onto the newly evolving media systems of transitional societies. Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia undertook a range of media reforms to conform with accession requirements of the European Union and the standards of the Council of Europe, among others. The essays explore the nexus between the democratic transformation of the media and international media assistance. The cross-national analysis concludes that the effects of international assistance are highly constrained by the local context. From today's vantage point it becomes obvious, that scaling media assistance does not necessarily improve outcomes. The experiences in the region suggest that imported solutions have not been very cognitive in all aspects of local conditions but international strategies tent to be rather schematic and lacked strategic approaches to promote media policy stability, credible media reform and implementation. The book offers valuable insights into the nature and effects of media assistance and the strategies deployed by international aid agencies, local political forces, media professionals, civil society organizations and other actors.
Author: V. Bojicic-Dzelilovic
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1137296259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the ambiguous role played by civil society in the processes of state-building, democratization and post-conflict reconstruction in the Western Balkans challenging the assumption that civil society is always a force for good by analysing civil society actors and their effects in post-communist and post-conflict transition.
Author: Mladen Ostojić
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9786086571153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9788364895043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paulina Pospieszna
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-07-18
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1351717081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses important and under-researched issues such as, the role of young people in democratization processes, the role of new democracies in sharing their transition experience, and the effectiveness of aid. A major theme of the book is democracy assistance efforts by the NGOs from Central and Eastern Europe to support young people in Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans, and Central Asia. It examines this theme in a comparative perspective and with a deeper analysis of reasons and ways to support young people, the need to support them and the effectiveness of these efforts. Bringing together a wide range of material on democracy assistance of Central and Eastern European countries that includes surveying the providers and beneficiaries of aid and looking for better methods of impact evaluation, the book advances a framework for assessing democracy assistance efforts. It concludes with implications of the impact of democracy assistance on young people and democracy diffusion from Central and Eastern European democracies to other countries. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of democracy, democratization, Central and Eastern Europe, Post-Soviet studies, and European and Comparative Politics, as well as for practitioners (donors, NGOs) who want to know what works best, and why and when in aid provision.
Author: Nick Chapman
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 75
ISBN-13: 9781861929662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Danida. Evalueringssekretariatet
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Published: 2012
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ISBN-13: 9788770876773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jasmin Mujanović
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0190877391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that the Balkans are on the cusp of a historic socio-political transformation rather than renewed ethnic strife