On the 21-22 June in Skopje, BCSDN organized a regional capacity building event within the scope of the project Western Balkan CSOs in Global Development.
25 participants gathered to discuss and get more knowledge and introduction to the current development cooperation agenda as well as experiences from Romania and Slovenia. The workshop was led by Iuliana Rada, FDSC, Romania together with Marijan Huc, Sloga, Slovenia and Urlike Bey from the project leader Horizon 3000. BCSDN members and project partners alongside other CSOs’ representatives from Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia discussed: history of development cooperation, EU and development cooperation and SDGs and the Post-2015 Agenda. The participants were presented to the European Consensus on Development and the added value of the new member states. Each of them had the opportunity to present what would be the added value of their countries in the field of development cooperation and what are the capacities of CSOs available in their countries. The Romanian experience was also presented in more details and the current institutions and actors in this field. The EC funding mechanisms for development cooperation were also on the agenda where current opportunities for WB CSOs were presented.
Each of the country groups made a future action plan that would be considered through this project that aims to boost the capacities in the region for CSOs to get involved in development cooperation and to raise awareness among interested CSOs in the country.