Next round of applications for the Transformative Partnership Award
The Collective Leadership Institute (CLI, German member of the European Network for CIGS) opens the next application round for its Transformative Partnership Award. This award is for civil society organisations who partner with other sectors. CLI would like to fill the gap that most awards purely focus on results, instead of the development of quality processes […]
Secretary reflects on developments
Our secretary ErnstJan Stroes recently had the opportunity to reflect on the development of the European Network for Citizen Initiatives in Global Solidarity at the Collective Leadership Institute’s 2024 “Transformation Literacy Conference!” Here you can find his reflections, alongside other inspiring discussions. The annual online conference of the Collective Leadership Institute is to share reflections […]
Focus or not to focus?
The funding working group met on the 6th of June 2024 to discuss the impact of focus countries or themes on funding practices for CIGS, with a rather small representation of two member organisations. Up-front the province of West-Flanders provided us with a overview of how they relate to this theme. Actually the province of […]
Annual report 2023
The coordination group of the network approved the annual report 2023 on the 12th of April 2024. In this report which is the first annual report of the network the secretariat informs about the progress made. The network has been instrumental this year for developing several larger activities which will result in the ability to […]
Civil Society for EU
As a Network of organisations that supports citizen initiatives in global solidarity we see that civil society in Europe is under pressure. Therefore we endorse the #CivilsocietyforEU campaign and call on the future European Parliament and Commission to adopt an EU-wide Civil Society Strategy and an Agreement on Civil Dialogue. We invite our members to join the campaign […]
CIGS capacity building and the European elections
On 7 March the Capacity Building Working group of the network discussed the upcoming European elections and what direct and indirect implications they could have for the work of CIGS in Europe. We heard country reports from Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium/Flanders, Finland, and Poland. We discussed the challenges that the right-wing and populist trends might […]
CIGS capacity building and the European elections
On 7 March at 11:00 CEST the Capacity Building Working group will meet again and discuss what we can await from the upcoming European election. We will have an external view on direct or indirect implications of election result scenarios on our capacity building activities and possibilities for CIGS. And an internal view on our […]
New statutes to be prepared?
The coordination group of the network met at the 11th of January for the first time in 2024. During this meeting new members Sloga from Slovenia and Grupa Zagranica from Poland introduced themselves. Both of them are platforms that unite both CIGS and larger international cooperation NGOs in their respective countries. During the meeting as […]
Contest: Young people at the wheel
Wilde Ganzen informed you recently about the competition ‘Young people at the wheel’. This is a contest in which partner organisation of European CIGS have a chance to receive project support of €5.000, €7.500 or €10.000! This contest is open to small European NGOs that cooperate with partners in ODA countries. Download here […]
Supporting informal groups
For several reasons the level of formalisation of civil society seems to decrease. During a meeting of the funding working group we discussed if we can support groups that have no form of registration or that we should refrain from it. During the meeting we had members from the Belgium, the EU and the Netherlands […]