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Tag: Civil society

21. March 2013.

Election Innovations Conference

In the year that the European Union has declared the European Year of Citizens, GONG held an international conference on "Innovation Fair Election" under the auspices of the President of the Croatian Parliament Josip Leko 19th and 20 March 2013. National and University Library in Zagreb 9:30 to 18:00 pm. The aim of this international […]

20. March 2013.

Elections and everything that goes along with it: a festival or a travesty of democracy?

“Innovations are key to survival and they stem from the spirit of the society; as a part of democracy, elections and referendums are here to serve to citizens, and the real innovation would be not only to have the authorities amend laws, but to ask the citizens what they think about the laws”, this is […]

19. March 2013.

Electoral innovation – an opportunity for the democratization of democracy

As citizens’ trust in politics and political processes is diminishing on a daily basis and uncertainty is increasing unlike the available space for public debate, democracy is once again in question. One may ask if we live in a democracy at all. But, should we give up or invest our energy into its preservation and […]

14. February 2013.

"New Bill Opens the Door to New Criminal Privatization"

Several civil society organizations, asked by the H-Alter.org portal to give their assessment on the Draft-Law on Strategic Investments, submitted for adoption last week, in an urgent procedure, comment that it would lead the country into a second round of robber-baron privatization and ensures a shortcut to exploitation of natural wealth and resources of the […]

24. January 2013.

How will Civil Society Organisations survive Croatia accession to EU

In conditions of pan-European economic crisis afflicting the entire European Union, European Social Fund represents a particularly valuable source of funding for the programs that contribute to mitigation of negative consequences and provision of new opportunities to the particularly vulnerable social groups in the field of employment, education, social welfare etc In order to reduce […]

25. October 2012.

Will civil society survive Croatia’s accession to EU?

The rules of the game concerning financing of civil society organisations will change once Croatia joins the EU, but optimistic statements regarding Croatia’s readiness to access available funds and secure sustainability and continuance of non-governmental sector development are still not justified, even though non-governmental sector represents desirable employer for one in 58 Croatian citizens. The […]

USAID Releases the 15th Edition of the NGO Sustainability Index

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) released the 15th edition of its Non-Governmental Sustainability Index (NGOSI) – now called the Civil Society Organization Sustainability Index (CSOSI) in recognition of the broad range of nonprofit civil society organizations (CSO) active in the region. This year’s edition covers civil society developments during calendar year 2011. The […]

23. April 2012.

GONG Rings for Democracy

„September 1999. The three of us are in the office of the then President of the Croatian Parliament, holding boxes containing 28,000 signatures of people requesting the introduction of non-partisan election monitoring into the electoral law, collected in 28 cities. Vlatko Pavletić looks at us with interest, maybe even with sympathy: ‘You‘re young and clever, […]

13. April 2012.

GONG took its first action exactly 15 years ago – it was observing the local self-government elections held on April 13 1997. Before that, for the purposes of independent and unbiased supervision over the election process, which was made impossible during the 1990ties, and at the initiative of the activists gathered under the Coordination of […]

23. January 2009.

NGOs to ask if golf courses law conforms with Constitution

Four nongovernmental organisations on Friday said that they would soon file a request with the Constitutional Court to assess whether the recently adopted law on golf courses conformed with the Constitution. The law, which elicited strong criticism among environmental protection organisations and some opposition parties, took effect on 1 January 2009. ZAGREB, Jan 23 (Hina) […]

22. August 2008.

Public Benefit Organizations (PBOs)

According to the Action Plan of National Strategy for Inciting Development of Civil Society, working group created a platforme which aim is to define criteria for acquiering PBO status, based on the fact that civil society in Croatia is developed enough to diferentiate between organizations established for member purposes only and those established for promoting […]

22. August 2008.

Code of good practice for consultations of state and civil society in adopting legislation and other general acts

Representative of GONG participated in drafting this Code of Good Practice during 2007 and 2008 organized by Government‘s Office for NGOs. Drafting of this Code is one of the priority measures of the Action Plan of National Strategy for Inciting Development of Civil Society. Representative of GONG participated in drafting this Code of Good Practice […]

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