Balkan Trust for Democracy

Supported Projects

Fiscal Year 2012

Regional  |  Albania  |  Bosnia and Herzegovina  |  Bulgaria  |  Croatia  |  Kosovo  |  Macedonia  |  Moldova  |  Montenegro  |  Romania  |  Serbia

REGIONAL

1. Organization: America-Bosnia Foundation
Project Name: Conference and Follow-up: “The Western Balkans: Progress, Stagnation, or Regression?”
Description: To support conference on: “The Western Balkans: Progress, Stagnation, or Regression?” including strong follow up plan to support civil society organizations in the Balkan countries.
Website: www.abf.ba

2. Organization: Association Institute for Public Policy
Project Name: Efficient EU 2014-2020 Programming based on assessing the impact of the Structural Funds in Bulgaria and Romania
Description: To support Romanian and Bulgarian NGOs in their advocacy efforts and active involvement in the strategy development and planning process for the Structural Funds in the upcoming financial period.
Website: www.ipp.ro

3. Organization: Anglo-Serbian Society
Project Name: South-East European Summer School for Democracy
Description: To support the South-East European Summer School for Democracy that promotes the values of democracy, regional cooperation, and Euro-Atlantic integration among young scholars and from SEE.
Website: www.anses.rs

4. Organization: Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence
Project Name: Belgrade Security Forum
Description: To launch a new security initiative, the Belgrade Security Forum, that aims to become a regional hub for relevant and influential policy dialogue on most important security and foreign affairs issues affecting the Balkans, as well as Europe at large.
Website: www.bfpe.org

5. Organization: Kiosk
Project Name: Roma Family Album
Description: To support and enable different representation and understanding of Roma community in Serbia and Montenegro through collaborative work with Roma families researching their family histories through private photo albums and discovering the level of inclusion of Roma community in Serbian and Montenegrin society during the second half of the 20^th century and the beginning of the 21^st century.
Website: www.kioskngo.org
This grant was made possible through the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

6. Organization: Serbian Association of Managers
Project Name: Regional Summit – 100 Business Leaders of Southeast Europe
Description: To support the summit of 100 business leaders from former Yugoslavia to discuss the challenges of the current economic environment and opportunities for integration and cooperation in the future.
Website: www.sam.org.rs

7. Organization: Center for Democratic Transition
Project Name: Money and Politics in the Western Balkans
Description: To support regional cooperation in the area of transparency of political finance among NGOs in the region, and to continue establishing a transparent system of political financing in Montenegro.
Website: www.cdtmn.org

8. Organization: Center for Regionalism
Project Name: Igman Initiative – 22^nd Session
Description: To continue the stabilization of good neighborly relations of signatories of the Dayton Peace Accord by promoting the formation of intra-parliamentary bodies and resolution of property and citizenship issues.
Website: www.centarzaregionalizam.org.rs

9. Organization: Fund for Active Citizenship
Project Name: Partners in Social Transition
Description: To promote cooperation and experience sharing between NGOs and other relevant stakeholders active in social services provision in Montenegro and in Serbia.
Website: www.faktcg.org
This grant was made possible through the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

10. Organization: Radio Sto Plus
Project Name: Regional Broadcast ‘Pogledi’
Description: To support the promotion and protection of human rights in Sandzak region by joint production of the radio stations from Serbia, Radio Sto Plus from Novi Pazar, and Montenegro, Radio Bijelo Polje from Bijelo Polje, dedicated to the crucial social problems in the region such as: access to education, poverty reduction, social inclusion, narcotics addiction prevention and regional cooperation.
Website: www.radiostoplus.com
This grant was made possible through the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

11. Organization: Social Innovation Laboratory
Project Name: Support for the Creation of a Regional Social Innovation Laboratory
Description: To support the creation of an innovative policy laboratory for social innovation where knowledge, ideas and practices meet to find solutions for development challenges in the region
Website: www.socinnovationlab.org

12. Organization: Youth Alliance Krusevo
Project Name: Contacts for the Common Future 2012 – Let’s Meet Our Neighbor
Description: To enhance the cooperation between youth NGOs from Macedonia and Greece and encourage individual youth activists to be facilitators of dialogue between the two countries.
Website: www.youthalliance.org.mk

13. Organization: Expert Forum
Project Name: Clientelism at Your Fingerprints
Description: To increase the transparency and accountability of governments over the allocation of public resources in Romania, Serbia and Croatia by creation of set of indicators and mechanism for civic monitoring of the process and providing reliable data and analyses open to the public.
Website: www.expertforum.ro

14. Organization: Heartefact Fund
Project Name: HF New Tides 2012
Description: To support up to ten projects implemented by CSOs, artists and artistic groups from the region that address regional collaboration, regional political issues and reconciliation.
Website: www.heartefact.org

15. Organization: Belgrade Centre for Security Policy
Project Name: Comparative Analysis and Country Papers on independent State Institutions as Security Actors in the Western Balkans
Description: To publish country papers and a comparative analysis of the control and oversight exercised by the independent state institutions over security sector actors in the Western Balkans.
Website: www.ccmr-bg.org

16. Organization: Serbian Association of Constitutional Law
Project Name: IACL Round Table ‘Key Developments in Constitutionalism and Constitutional Law between 1981 and 2011’
Description: To support the organization of the International Association of Constitutional Law Round Table on Key Developments in Constitutionalism and Constitutional Law between 1981 and 2011 in Belgrade.
Website: http://www.suzup.rs/

17. Organization: Youth Center Gracanica
Project Name: Let Us Recommend Again! – Focus Group Research of the Kosovo Serb Population to Inform the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue
Description: To support and inform the ongoing Belgrade-Pristina dialogue process through the provision of data and analyses of the opinions, views and experiences of a diverse range of Kosovo Serbs.
Website: n/a

18. Organization: Belgrade Initiative for Tolerance
Project Name: Promoting Inclusion of Kosovo Serbs in Policymaking
Description: To support inclusion of political leaders of Kosovo Serbs in policymaking in Serbia and Kosovo and cooperation between elected Kosovo Serb members of the parliaments of Kosovo and Serbia
Website: www.bit.org.rs

19. Organization: European Fund for the Balkans
Project Name: Balkan Know How Exchange: Improving Analysis in an Era of Open Data
Description: To convene a forum of think tank and advocacy organization practitioners that provides space for discussion and opens new avenues for systematic and structured exchanges of know-how and experiences among peers from different organizations throughout the Western Balkans.
Website: www.balkanfund.org

20. Organization: Euro-Atlantic Initiative
Project Name: Heart of Silk and Steel
Description: To support better understanding of one of the most painful pages of Serbian-Croatian history and help build bridges of understanding, cooperation and reconciliation between the two nations and in the region.
Website: www.eai.org.rs

21. Organization: Documenta
Project Name: Regional Study Visits to Sites of Memory
Description: To promote intercultural dialogue about the past between different societies, exploring ways of affirming fact-based history research and negotiating appropriate ways of commemorating traumatic events, in order to deepen social dialogue on recent history and to, through critical analysis, serve as a solid basis for democracy, reconciliation and tolerance in the region.
Website: www.documenta.hr

22. Organization: Green Action/Friends of the Earth Croatia
Project Name: Moving Towards Successful Public Participation in the Sava River Basin Water Management
Description: To support relevant Sava River Basin stakeholders from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in achieving their rights in public participation and cooperation in the process of creation and implementation of Sava River Basin Management Plan, through raising their level of awareness and knowledge on relevant legal and practical tools.
Website: www.zelena-akcija.hr

23. Organization: Youth Initiative for Human Rights - BiH
Project Name: Virtual Museum: ‘The Siege of Sarajevo’
Description: To broaden public understanding of the events and framework relating to the fall of Yugoslavia, through sharing the human scale of events, places, and experiences pertaining to the Siege of Sarajevo 1992-1996.
Website: www.yihr.org

24. Organization: SEE Change Net
Project Name: Fairer, Cleaner, Safer – Advocating for Improved Regional Sustainable Energy Policies
Description: To support the development of a platform for a fully-costed alternative energy strategy for Southeast Europe, a framework for the in-depth analysis of blocks in terms of corruption and transparency in the energy sector, and a four-year plan for advocacy and watchdog monitoring.
Website: www.seechangenetwork.org

25. Organization: Institute for Regional and International Studies
Project Name: Public Policy Strategies for Regional Development in the Balkans
Description: To support public policy reforms in the Balkan countries by influencing the decision-making through research, analysis and recommendations for effective solutions.
Website: www.iris-bg.org

26. Organization: Group 484
Project Name: From Brain Gain Policies to Practices – Dissemination of Best Institutional Practices in the Western Balkans Region
Description: To support formation of institutional brain gain mechanisms and practice in the region through: 1) Identifying key elements of successful institutional brain gain mechanisms and practices in the region, 2) Strengthening governmental representatives in the region to develop institutional mechanisms and regional cooperation for achieving brain gain, and 3) Informing a regional public on the benefits of introducing institutional brain gain mechanism for development of the countries and the region.
Website: www.grupa484.org.rs

27. Organization: Balkan Civil Society Development Network
Project Name: Bringing About Tangible Change for Civil Society: Monitoring of the EU Support to Civil Society Development in the Balkans
Description: To measure the tangible effects of the revised EC support to civil society in the Balkans.
Website: www.balkancsd.net
This grant was made possible through the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo.

28. Organization: Independent News Center
Project Name: The Bridge: Jointly Produced Media Coverage of Serbia-Kosovo Dialogue – Phase II
Description: To strengthen a communication bridge and permanent functioning network of local radio stations across Kosovo and Serbia, foster cooperative media and relations between Albanian and Serbian communities, and inform citizens about the ongoing political discussion between Kosovo and Serbia.
This grant was made possible through the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo.

29. Organization: Center for Liberal Strategies
Project Name: Europe at Risk
Description: To support the organization of a series of public seminars and lectures “Europe at Risk” aiming to rationalize the discussion on the current crisis and future policies of the EU and propose possible policy options.
Website: www.cls-sofia.org

30. Organization: Centre for Liberal Strategies
Project Name: Sofia Forum: ‘The Balkans in the Global World: Fostering the Region’s European Agenda’
Description: To support the dialogue between high-level policy and opinion makers from the Balkans together with their counterparts from the EU and the United States as well as from MENA regions on questions of regional significance.
Website: www.cls-sofia.org

31. Organization: Bulgarian School of Politics
Project Name: Balkan Policies for Green Economic Growth
Description: To support regional discussion and foster cooperation among young public and civic leaders from the Balkans around clean energy-related policies before the Rio+20 Earth Summit 2012.
Website: www.schoolofpolitics.org

32. Organization: Zoran Djindjic Fund
Project Name: Second Regional School of Political Philosophy
Description: To support regional cooperation, civic engagement and democratization of the region by examining the role of the Zoran Djindjic in the transformation of Serbia and strengthening regional cooperation and to enhance understanding of the fundamental concepts of political philosophy.
Website: www.fond-djindjic.org

33. Organization: Open Communication
Project Name: Promoting a Culture of Dialogue in the Western Balkans
Description: To promote and strengthen youth capacities for discourse in the region.
Website: www.ok.org.rs
This grant was made possible through the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo.

34. Organization: Peace Academy Foundation
Project Name: The Fifth Post-Yugoslav Peace Academy
Description: To support peacebuilders and individuals that can significantly contribute to the peacebuilding process across the ex-Yugoslav region through a systematic peace education program with a unique methodology complementing academic and activist approaches, and combining peace, gender, age, socio-economic foci in order to induce social change.
Website: www.mirovna-akademija.org
This grant was made possible through the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo.

35. Organization: PRONI Centre for Social Education - Osijek
Project Name: Prijeko-Preko 3
Description: To support youth work, participatory role of citizens and development of civil society, through capacity-building of local stakeholders and cross-border cooperation and partnership.
Website: www.proni.hr
This grant was made possible through the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo.

36. Organization: Association of Young Enthusiasts
Project Name: Balkan Youth Forum
Description: To gather together some of the most promising youth leaders and students from the Balkans in order to discuss current political, social and economic issues and challenges.
Website: n/a
This grant was made possible through the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo.

37. Organization: Euro Atlantic Club of Montenegro
Project Name: To Be Secure (2BS) Forum 2012
Description: To support a forum for government officials, politicians, and policy experts to gather and discuss security issues and challenges and European and transatlantic integration processes.
Website: www.atacg.org
This grant was made possible through the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo.

ALBANIA

1. Organization: Independent Forum for the Albanian Woman
Project Name: Gender, Social Cohesion and Good Governance
Description: To improve the responsibility and accountability of local government to formulate adequate strategies and policies for social services, through enhancing and strengthening citizen participation to local policy and decision making procedures and strategies.
Website: n/a

2. Organization: Albanian Media Institute
Project Name: Media Independence versus Media Clientelism: Challenges of Soft Censorship and Self-Censorship
Description: To raise the awareness of all media stakeholders and the public on the current trends of self-censorship and soft censorship vis-à-vis media independence.
Website: www.institutemedia.org

3. Organization: European Movement in Albania
Project Name: Consolidating Employment Policies in View of Albania’s EU Accession
Description: To support and stimulate Albanian institutions in consolidating employment policies and efficient labor market mechanisms as well as prepare for accessing EU funds aimed at advancing labor skills.
Website: www.em-al.org

4. Organization: Rural Association Support Programme
Project Name: Strengthening the Role of Community Structures in Strategic Planning for Local Development in Northern Albania
Description: To support community structures in the districts of Kukes and Han in articulating their priority concerns and recommendations to the municipal and communal government and to hold them accountable for fulfilling their election promises.
Website: www.rasp.org.al

5. Organization: Mjaft!
Project Name: Travel to Europe 2012
Description: To allow the best university students from Albania to travel around Europe and experience its political, social, and economic realities firsthand.
Website: www.mjaft.org
This grant was made possible through the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, under the auspices of the “Travel to Europe” program.

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

1. Organization: TALDi
Project Name: Strengthening the Role and Capacity of Local Communities in Implementing Development Strategies of Local Governments
Description: To support the decentralization process through strengthening the capacities of local communities and enhancing the coordination mechanisms at the local level, while securing participation of citizens in the democratic movements and in decision making actions of Lukavac municipality.
Website: www.taldi.ba

2. Organization: Independent Zenica
Project Name: From Social Assistance to Social Inclusion
Description: To support development of the model for an inclusive welfare system which promotes effective and efficient social policy, contributing to the reduction of poverty, inequality and social exclusion, through constructive dialogue between majority and minority populations in joint decision making and problem solving.
Website: n/a

3. Organization: Centre for Development of Media and Analysis
Project Name: Together Against Corruption
Description: To support the fight against corruption in the economy, state institutions and public administration of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Website: www.zurnal.info

4. Organization: Center for Sustainable Development
Project Name: Support to Participatory Management of Environmental Issues in Northeast BiH
Description: To strengthen implementation of democratic principles in decision making and problem-solving of the environmental sector in Northeast Bosnia and Herzegovina, through support to participation and collaboration of all actors from the three different administrative units of BiH in activities for harmonization with the EU environmental legislation and monitoring system.
Website: www.cor.ba

5. Organization: Youth Information Agency
Project Name: Social Innovation Incubator
Description: To establish the first self-sustainable Social Innovation Incubator for youth and student empowerment in Sarajevo and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Website: www.oiabih.info; www.mladi.info

6. Organization: Priroda
Project Name: Women in Local Communities
Description: To support social capital building and strengthening the role of civil society in combating gender discrimination and ensuring representation of women in social, economic and political life of their communities in municipalities Bratunac and Vlasenica.
Website: www.priroda.org

7. Organization: NGO Democracy-Organizing-Progress (DON)
Project Name: Protect Your Right to Vote
Description: To support youth and other citizens in educations on election process, animation of voters and monitoring of pre-election promises given by political parties.
Website: www.donprijedor.com

8. Organization: Youth Information Agency
Project Name: Travel to Europe 2012
Description: To allow the best university students from Bosnia and Herzegovina to travel around Europe and experience its political, social, and economic realities firsthand.
Website: www.oiabih.info
This grant was made possible through the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, under the auspices of the “Travel to Europe” program.

BULGARIA

1. Organization: Knowledge Association Lovech
Project Name: Civic Participation Initiative
Description: To support civic participation in the decision making process on local level through adoption of legislative amendments of standards for public consultations on local level and introduction of rules and working models for interaction with citizens within all Bulgarian municipalities.
Website: www.znanielovech.org

2. Organization: Balkan Assist Association
Project Name: Efficient Partnership for Good Quality Planning
Description: To support involvement of a countrywide coalition of NGOs in the discussion and elaboration of the priorities of the National Development Program “Bulgaria 2020”.
Website: www.balkanassist.bg

3. Organization: National Network for Children
Project Name: Civic Advocacy Campaign for Improved Legal Framework for Children Rights in 2012
Description: To support a country wide civic consultative process in the development of four key legislative initiatives and to organize an advocacy campaign to ensure the inclusion of the civil society recommendations in all major policy documents.
Website: www.nmd.bg

CROATIA

1. Organization: GONG
Project Name: GONG’s Policy Research Center on Good Governance and Participatory Democracy
Description: To enhance policy research and advocacy initiatives, with the goal of promoting an inclusive, fair and transparent policy-making process through methodologically rigorous and fact-based policy research.
Website: www.gong.hr

2. Organization: Serb National Council
Project Name: Political Academy 2012
Description: To support the further development of the Political Academy as the central educational institution for practical training of the young generation of future leaders of ethnic Serb community in Croatia aiming at preparing them for taking a pro-active role in political, economic, cultural and social life within the Serb community in Croatia.
Website: www.snv.hr

3. Organization: Serbian Democratic Forum
Project Name: Citizen Participation in Community Development
Description: To empower the role of the civil society in promotion of human and minority rights and peaceful consolidation of the minority, women and marginalized groups’ interests in local communities of areas of special state concern.
Website: www.sdf.hr

KOSOVO

1. Organization: Youth Initiative for Human Rights – Kosovo
Project Name: Youth Leaders School 2011
Description: To empower young people who demonstrate leadership skills by strengthening their knowledge in Human Rights, Transitional Justice and Democracy; giving them a real view of the current situation through the study visits, and encouraging their human rights activism through the Nisma Ime network.
Website: www.yihr.org

2. Organization: Kosova Democratic Institute
Project Name: Civic Bridge Between Kosovo’s Parliament and Citizens
Description: To support the development of a partnership amongst highest legislative body with public, through increase of citizens’ participation in the decision-making process and to provide an environment for creation and development of the open society.
Website: www.kdi-kosova.org

3. Organization: Radio KIM
Project Name: Kosovo-Wide Radio/TV/Internet Bulletins
Description: To support production of TV bulletins about quality of life and current events in Kosovo in Serbian language
Website: www.radiokim.net

4. Organization: Organization for Democracy, Anticorruption and Dignity
Project Name: Centre for Investigative Journalism
Description: To support the emergence of the Centre for Investigative Journalism in Pristina, thus creating an environment and conditions for investigative reporting about corruption, organized crime, and other issues related to politics, economy and with impact on social life.
Website: www.cohu.org

5. Organization: Advocacy Training and Research Center
Project Name: Closer to Citizens – Standardizing Community-Level Linkages Between Citizens and Municipalities
Description: To assist municipalities in Kosovo to foster and strengthen their relationships with citizens in order to foresee and respond to their community needs better by initiating and approving an administrative order focused on standardizing the local structures in municipalities.
Website: www.advocacy-center.org

6. Organization: Institute for Advanced Studies GAP
Project Name: Municipal IDs for Information, Transparency and Participation for Communities at the Local Level
Description: To inform citizens about the current state of their municipality in several key sectors through the independent gathering and dissemination of key data on municipal government performance.
Website: www.gapinstitute.org

7. Organization: Internews Kosova
Project Name: Monitoring and Reporting on Justice System and Police in Kosovo
Description: To continue the systematic monitoring of the performance of justice and police institutions and produce TV debates/reports that address issues identified through the monitoring.
Website: www.internewskosova.org

8. Organization: Youth Initiative for Human Rights Kosovo
Project Name: Travel to Europe 2012
Description: To allow the best university students from Kosovo to travel around Europe and experience its political, social, and economic realities firsthand.
Website: www.yihr.org
This grant was made possible through the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, under the auspices of the “Travel to Europe” program.

MACEDONIA

1. Organization: NGO Info-Centre
Project Name: Public Relations for Transparent Local Governance, Phase 2
Description: To support and to enhance the local governments’ communication with the citizens, media, business community, civil sector, as well as, other stake holders and relevant publics.
Website: www.nvoinfocentar.org.mk

2. Organization: Association for Citizens’ Tolerance and Cooperation
Project Name: The Inspector Does Not Ring ONLY Twice: Evidence-Based Advocacy for the Improvement of Inspection Services in Macedonia
Description: To support the improvement of the work of inspection services, through holding broad-based public dialogue on the newly passed Law on Inspection Services in order to provide feedback and recommendations that will be presented to the Government to incorporate into amendments to the law and by-laws.
Website: www.agtis.org.mk

3. Organization: Albanian Rehabilitation Center for Trauma and Torture Victims
Project Name: Strengthening Capacity for Respecting the Rights of Juveniles in Educational Correctional Institutions
Description: To improve the re-socialization process of juveniles in the Macedonia's educational correctional institutions through strengthening human resources capacity.
Website: www.arct.org

4. Organization: Akcija Zdruzhenska
Project Name: Gender and Social Accountability: Monitoring the Implementation of the National Action Plan for Gender Equality in Macedonia
Description: To support a transparent and effective policy planning and implementation process in the area of gender equality and women’s rights in Macedonia.
Website: www.zdruzenska.org.mk

5. Organization: Association of Journalists of Macedonia
Project Name: Fostering Dialogue in the Media Sphere in Macedonia
Description: To support the process of inclusiveness in the dialogue that the Association of Journalists have initiated with the Macedonia government for improving the media situation in the country.
Website: www.znm.org.mk

6. Organization: Citizens Association MOST
Project Name: Travel to Europe 2012
Description: To allow the best university students from Macedonia to travel around Europe and experience its political, social, and economic realities firsthand.
Website: www.most.org.mk
This grant was made possible through the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, under the auspices of the “Travel to Europe” program.

MOLDOVA

1. Organization: Center for Analysis and Prevention of Corruption
Project Name: I Do Not Give – I Do Not Take! Social Campaign
Description: To mobilize individual citizens and civil society organizations to address corruption by organizing an awareness raining campaign and advocating for greater transparency of the state institutions.
Website: www.capc.md

2. Organization: Foreign Policy Association
Project Name: Civic Monitoring on the Implementation of the Visa Liberalization Action Plan with the EU
Description: To support civic involvement and monitoring of the implementation of the government reforms for the visa liberalization process in Moldova.
Website: www.ape.md

MONTENEGRO

1. Organization: Centre for Democracy and Human Rights
Project Name: Strengthening the Fight Against Discrimination in Montenegro
Description: To support an effective fight against all forms of discrimination in Montenegro by empowering citizens to claim their rights and stakeholders to perform their duties.
Website: www.cedem.me
This grant was made possible through the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

2. Organization: Fund for Active Citizenship
Project Name: Gates to Active Citizenship
Description: To support more active, effective and responsible youth participation of in community life and development.
Website: www.fakt.cg.org

3. Organization: Montenegro Media Institute
Project Name: Parliamentary Strengthening Program – Access to Information
Description: To improve parliamentary reporting and the relations of media with parliamentary service to support the accession process of Montenegro to the EU.
Website: www.mminstitute.org

4. Organization: Network for Affirmation of NGO Sector (MANS)
Project Name: Capacity Building for Public Participation and Civil Mobilization
Description: To support the fight against corruption and organized crime and to increase accountability of the government.
Website: www.mans.co.me

5. Organization: Green Home
Project Name: Travel to Europe 2012
Description: To allow the best university students from Montenegro to travel around Europe and experience its political, social, and economic realities firsthand.
Website: www.greenhome.co.me
This grant was made possible through the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, under the auspices of the “Travel to Europe” program.

ROMANIA

1. Organization: Romanian Academic Society
Project Name: Alliance for a Clean Romania
Description: To increase the transparency and accountability of Romanian government authorities and fight against corruption cases by sustaining civil society and citizens participation at all levels.
Website: www.sar.org.ro

2. Organization: Roma Civic Alliance of Romania
Project Name: Involving Roma Constituencies in the Development of the National Roma Strategy
Description: To support active involvement of local organizations and Roma communities in the process of elaboration of the Romanian National Strategy for Roma Inclusion.
Website: www.acrr.ro

3. Organization: Association for the Defense of Human Rights in Romania
Project Name: Toward Essential Improvements in FOIA and Sunshine Laws in Romania
Description: To support advocacy campaign of coalition of NGOs to improve the legal framework for transparency and public participation in decision-making process in Romania.
Website: www.apador.org

4. Organization: Resource Center for Public Participation CeRe
Project Name: Increasing Civic Participation in the Decision Making Process for European Funds Management
Description: To support active civic participation in the management and allocation of the structural funds in Romania by improving the NGO’s access to the funds and NGO’s involvement in the decision making process regarding programming, implementation and evaluation.
Website: www.ce-re.ro

SERBIA

1. Organization: Reconstruction Women’s Fund
Project Name: Roma Girls’ Solidarity
Description: To support the development of active citizenship among Roma female youth and lay the foundation for greater Roma involvement in local and national decision making processes.
Website: www.rwfund.org
This grant was made possible through the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

2. Organization: Civic Initiatives
Project Name: Piloting YouthBuild for Youth Capacities Building in South Serbia
Description: To support marginalized youth in South Serbia to become active in their local community through intensive and long lasting work on their capacities.
Website: www.gradjanske.org
This grant was made possible through the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

3. Organization: Committees for Human Rights in Serbia Network
Project Name: Respect Differences – Equality for All
Description: To decrease the level of the discrimination of persons living with disabilities by creating preconditions for their active involvement in the local communities.
Website: www.chris-network.org
This grant was made possible through the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

4. Organization: Forum of Civil Action – FORCA
Project Name: Together We Can!
Description: To support persons with disabilities in local community to create, develop, adopt and implement local action plans that deal with issues affecting their quality of life in the local community.
Website: www.forca.rs
This grant was made possible through the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

5. Organization: Group “Let’s…”
Project Name: Getting Their Message Heard - Enabling Visibility of Marginalized Groups in Serbia
Description: To support NGOs in Serbia that work with marginalized groups in order to empower them to use cost effective and contemporary techniques of advocacy and awareness raising about the rights of marginalized of vulnerable groups in Serbia.
Website: www.hajdeda.org.rs
This grant was made possible through the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

6. Organization: Initiative for Development and Cooperation
Project Name: WASE – Legalization of Roma Waste Collection Enterprises through Social Entrepreneurship
Description: To use social entrepreneurship as a means to register Roma waste collectors and enabling their full social and economic inclusion in the life of their local communities and the Serbian society in general.
Website: www.idcserbia.org
This grant was made possible through the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

7. Organization: Mental Disability Rights Initiative Serbia
Project Name: Promoting Self-Determination and Inclusion in Society for Persons with Disabilities in Serbia
Description: To support advocacy towards legislative and systemic reforms of legal capacity and guardianship laws to bring them into compliance with international human rights standards, to educate persons with disabilities about their rights, and to empower them to participate in everyday life on an equal basis.
Website: www.mdri-s.org
This grant was made possible through the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

8. Organization: Organization for Development and Democracy Bujanovac
Project Name: Let’s Meet Each Other
Description: To strengthen democratic political consciousness through education of citizens about National Council and best practices of other national minority councils in Serbia, and to create a democratic environment for work of National Council of Albanian national minority.
Website: n/a
This grant was made possible through the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

9. Organization: Association of Public Prosecutors and Deputy Public Prosecutors of Serbia
Project Name: Support to the Development of Prosecutorial Opportunity in the Criminal Justice System in Serbia
Description: To support the improved efficiency of the criminal justice system through a more efficient implementation of the principles of prosecutorial opportunity in Serbia.
Website: www.uts.org.rs
This grant was made possible through the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

10. Organization: Transparency Serbia
Project Name: Monitoring Judicial Accountability Mechanisms in Serbia
Description: To support judiciary reform in Serbia by identifying weak points in judicial accountability mechanisms and advocating for improvements.
Website: www.transparentnost.org.rs
This grant was made possible through the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

11. Organization: U Pravu Si!
Project Name: U Pravu Si! Online
Description: To support development of rule of law in Serbia by providing youth, with comprehensive, relevant and communicative information on Serbian legal system, citizens’ rights, and responsibilities and ways of operation of Serbian state institutions.
Website: www.upravusi.rs
This grant was made possible through the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

12. Organization: Urban In
Project Name: Developing Young People’s Constructive Capacities in the Sandzak
Description: To support the diffusion of ethnic tensions by building up the capacity of youth for civic engagement and cooperation.
Website: www.urbanin.org
This grant was made possible through the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

13. Organization: War Trauma Center
Project Name: Dialogue as a Remedy
Description: To introduce the Serbian government, institutions and CSOs to the possibilities for constructive usage of war experience through dialogues between war veterans and youth, as an instrument to improve social cohesion and combat discrimination.
Website: www.wartrauma.org
This grant was made possible through the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

14. Organization: Gay Straight Alliance
Project Name: Young Politicians against Discrimination
Description: To increase the capacity of young politicians and party activists from outside of the capital to promote and protect human and sexual rights in their local communities and nationwide.
Website: www.gsa.org.rs
This grant was made possible through the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

15. Organization: Center for Democracy Foundation
Project Name: How Do We Manage Security Threats?
Description: To increase the capacity of local officials to understand modern security threats and acknowledge the need for local and international security arrangements to ensure protection against damage and harm.
Website: www.centaronline.org

16. Organization: Production Group Mreza
Project Name: Agencies and Citizens
Description: To raise awareness about the roles of independent institutions and agencies established to protect citizens’ rights.
Website: www.mreza.rs
This grant was made possible through the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

17. Organization: Vranjske Weekly
Project Name: Advancing Multiethnic Communication of Youth in Southern Serbia
Description: To support young people of Albanian and Serbian nationality by giving them space to voice their views and concerns about the society they live in and by doing so promote multiethnic society, fight prejudice and stereotypes and create a bridge between two deeply divided communities in Vranje, Bujanovac and Presevo.
Website: www.vranjske.co.rs
This grant was made possible through the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

18. Organization: Ebart – Media Documentation
Project Name: Human Rights in Serbia – Official and Shadow Reports
Description: To create an online clearing house for articles on human rights in Serbia.
Website: www.arhiv.rs

19. Organization: European Movement in Serbia
Project Name: Alternative Policy Approaches in the Context of European Integration
Description: To increase the capacity of civil society for policy analysis, development, monitoring, and evaluation in the field of European integration, and thus, help the integration effort of Serbian national government.
Website: www.emins.org

20. Organization: Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability
Project Name: Candidate the Truth
Description: To support greater accountability of elected government representatives in Serbia by providing tools for citizens’ engagement in pre-election accountability monitoring and connecting citizens with their potential representatives.
Website: www.crta.rs

21. Organization: Belgrade Centre for Human Rights
Project Name: Human Rights Training for Future Reform Leaders
Description: To support young professionals, media and the general public to influence and contribute to the establishment of accessible, transparent and effective democratic systems that support the democratic application and enforcement of the rule of law, which is sensitive to issues of human rights.
Website: www.bgcentar.org.rs

22. Organization: European Movement in Serbia
Project Name: Travel to Europe 2012
Description: To allow the best university students from Albania to travel around Europe and experience its political, social, and economic realities firsthand.
Website: www.emins.org
This grant was made possible through the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, under the auspices of the “Travel to Europe” program.