The TACSO Regional Office organized a regional meeting in Brussels, held on 22-23th of January, 2015, to coordinate two main processes: 1) the establishment and capacity building of the Resource Centers (RCs) in almost all beneficiary countries from the WB, except Albania, which will take over the technical assistance for CSOs, and 2) agreeing upon the optimal monitoring system for the EU Guidelines which would involve coordination with the BCSDN monitoring activities and possible streamlining of the Monitoring Matrix country reports with the EU Guidelines, since 4 RCs are BCSDN members.

Months of effort and research invested by BCSDN and Queen Mary University of London are now available in a publication entitled “Donor strategies and practices for supporting civil society in the Western Balkans” – a report that depicts the trends and practices that donors active in the region apply in supporting civil society. The motive behind this research was to inspire EU and other donors to reflect the needs of local civil society actors in their approach, methodology and strategies and to contribute to sustainable civil society development.

The Institute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM) published a paper aiming to encourage a process of discussions and a platform to strengthen the role and contribution of the Agency for Support of Civil Society (ASCS) as an influential mechanism for supporting civil society organizations and strengthening of democracy and sustainable development in Albania.

The Kosovar Civil Society Foundation (KCSF) was honoured with the 2014 PASOS Think-Tank Achievement of the Year Award for its work on leading a campaign to preserve the integrity of civil society in Kosovo. The annual award was announced at the PASOS General Assembly in Warsaw on 13th of December.